Medicare - Health Care Policy

Federal employees responsible for drafting and enforcing health reform regulations have an enormous task ahead of them, according to Gail Wilensky, PhD, an economist and former director of the agency now known as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.. Simply implementing ...

Health reform law gaining in popularity - HHS unveils high-risk insurance plan - Federal judge likely to rule on health reform lawsuit by end of July . President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took questions that day from ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities charged 94 doctors, nurses and clinic owners with scheming to defraud the taxpayer-funded Medicare program out of $251 million, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday.He said 36 defendants had been arrested so far in five cities ...

Cost issues dog new coverage program for uninsured people with pre-existing conditionsThe Obama administration is launching a special coverage program for uninsured Americans with medical problems this week, the most ambitious early investment of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.But here's the ...

Medicare used to adjust payments to doctors based on the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and doctors' payments went up at the same rate as the CPI. Between 1984 and 1997, the CPI rose 90%, private fees to doctors rose 150%, and Medicare ...

Obama renews health care bill pitch to a reluctant constituency, the elderlyPresident Barack Obama is turning his attention back to the massive health care bill he signed earlier this year, and trying to win over the most skeptical constituency: seniors.Obama is set ...

Is the Obama administration equipped to arbitrate the dispute over geographic disparities in Medicare spending? The Dartmouth project has gained a reputation during the past two decades as the chief authority on geographic disparities in Medicare per-capita spending. To achieve savings, it's ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors in some parts of the United States are more likely to tell Medicare patients they are sick than in other parts, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that could explain regional differences in health spending.The study is ...

Investors were caught by surprise last week when the big drug firms lowered their financial outlooks through 2011. The second provision is an increase in the discount that pharma companies must provide the government, in the form of a rebate, for the ...

Mixed review for new health care law says covering more still comes with greater costsPresident Barack Obama's health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are ...

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Topic: Medicare

Health reform tasks could overwhelm agencies, former federal official says

. 'Health reform law gaining in popularity' (briefs)

Doctors, nurses joined Medicare scam, U.S. says

New coverage for uninsured people in poor health

Obamacare 2010: $500 Million To Leave Medicare Patients

Obama renews health care bill pitch to elderly

Doctored health data endangers effective Medicare reforms

Don't like your diagnosis? Maybe you should move

The Drug Stock Sell-Off

Report says health care will cover more, cost more

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