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Category: Medicare Issues
Bill to Provide Full Chiropractic Coverage in Medicare
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Arlington, Va. – The U.S. Senate today introduced a bill, S. 4042, to modernize Medicare coverage and better meet the needs of today’s seniors by increasing access to services provided by doctors of chiropractic.
Soft Robots, Origami Combine for Potential Way to Deliver Medical Treatments
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COLUMBUS, Ohio — Researchers have found a way to send tiny, soft robots into humans, potentially opening the door for less invasive surgeries….
Proposed Medicare Cuts Threaten Anesthesiology Practices Already Struggling Amid Pandemic
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Medicare has proposed drastic cuts to its payment rates for important health care services, threatening the practices of physician anesthesiologists
Study Shows Breast Cancer Detected Earlier in States with Expanded Medicaid Coverage
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Haven, Conn. — In a new study by Yale Cancer Center (YCC), researchers have demonstrated that in states with expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA)….
Inequitable Medicare Reimbursements Threaten Care of Most Vulnerable
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hospitals, doctors and Medicare Advantage insurance plans that care for some of the most vulnerable patients are not reimbursed fairly by Medicare, according to recent findings in JAMA.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Medicare
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Medicare is one of those topics that gets discussed often in politics, however, many individuals don’t know a lot about it. Most figure they’ll deal with it when they get to the ripe age of 65 where they can start to claim the benefits.
Medicare Program Aimed at Lowering Costs, Improving Care May Not be Working as Well as Thought
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR—As the Medicare system seeks to improve the care of older adults while also keeping costs from growing too fast, a new University of Michigan study suggests that one major effort may not be having as much of an impact as hoped.
Medicare Spending Higher Among Older Adults With Disabilities Who Lack Adequate Support
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that more than one in five older adults who were aging in place….
Patients of Medicare Providers Committing Fraud, Abuse More Likely To Be Poor, Disabled
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed providers excluded from Medicare for fraud and abuse, and found that the patients they treated prior to being banned were more likely to be minorities….
External Reference Drug Pricing Could Save Medicare Tens of Billions
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new study by researchers found that prices for brand-name prescription drugs averaged 3.2 to 4.1 times higher in the U.S. when compared with prices in the United Kingdom, Japan and the Canadian province of Ontario.
Prescribing Healthy Food in Medicare/Medicaid is Cost Effective, Could Improve Health
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON — A team of researchers modeled the health and economic effects of healthy food prescriptions in Medicare and Medicaid.
Pre-Medicare Years Bring Health Insurance Worries for Many
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, MI – With the dawn of a new year, most Americans have just started a new health insurance coverage period — whether they receive their coverage through a job, buy it themselves or have a government plan.
Medicare Advantage Plans Offer A Broader Mix Of Benefits
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Whether you’re new to Medicare or an established beneficiary, take a close look at Medicare Advantage plans during this year’s open enrollment period. Those policies may offer the best mix of benefits to meet your health needs.
Ultimately Every State Will Expand Medicaid
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Medicaid expansions that voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah passed this week, after their own state legislatures rejected them, didn’t surprise Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD….
Researchers Teach ‘Machines’ to Detect Medicare Fraud
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Using a highly sophisticated form of pattern matching, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science are teaching “machines” to detect Medicare fraud.
Lowering Hospitals’ Medicare Costs Proves Difficult
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A payment system that provides financial incentives for hospitals that reduce health-care costs for Medicare patients did not lower costs as intended
The Rising Price of Medicare Part D’s 10 Most Costly Medications
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Perhaps surprising no one, researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have found that the cost for the 10 “highest spend” medications
Mandatory Bundled-Payment Medicare Programs Should Stay
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA—Hospitals that receive bundled payments for joint replacements either voluntarily or through Medicare’s mandatory programs, vary by size and volume, but not in spending or quality
Medicare Beneficiaries at Risk from Card-Replacement Scams
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, April 10, 2018 — As the federal government undertakes a major initiative to issue new identification cards to the nation’s 58 million Medicare beneficiaries….