Medicare HMO plans sprouting, but not here
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Thanks to an infusion of millions of federal dollars to ailing Medicare managed-care plans, seniors across the country next week can choose from an enticing array of benefits for 2005.
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The Bush administration says it is baffled over how few Medicare beneficiaries are signing up for a demonstration program that subsidizes expensive prescription drugs.
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WASHINGTON  - Reversing a trend in which  private health plans have been quitting the federal Medicare  program, U.S. officials Wednesday announced that more plans  will join next year.
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State efforts to transform the nationâs health care system appear to be on a collision course with the Bush administrationâs latest budget proposal.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Despite absorbing three straight years of double-digit increases in retiree health-care costs, more than half of employers that offer retiree health and drug coverage plan to keep it when the Medicare prescription drug benefit
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Massachusetts health insurers are promoting a new type of Medicare coverage for seniors in 2008 that potentially offers better coverage than traditional government-sponsored Medicare. The new plans, called private fee-for-service, also raise questions about the long-term direction of Medicare because they cost more than traditional coverage but are not held to higher quality and efficiency standards.
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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and America&#39;s Health Insurance Plans have sent separate letters to the Bush administration &quot;stat[ing] emphatically&quot; that to entice private insurers to participate in Medicare, the federal government will have to
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Limiting the fees that Medicare pays  to doctors has apparently not scared them off taking Medicare  patients, and most people trying to find medical care under the  program have been able to, according to a government report  released on Friday.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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In the wee hours of the morning Dec. 7, Senate negotiators rejected a Medicare measure pushed by outgoing House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) that would have meant big revenues for an insurance company in Hastert's home state. But a day later, the $100 million proposal was alive and well,...
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With the exception of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, most of the state's large health insurers will not raise premiums in 2005 for senior citizens enrolled in Medicare HMOs. Even so, seniors are not rushing to rejoin the plans, which are struggling to regain their trust after years of dramatic price increases.
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One part of the new Medicare drug plan passed by Congress earlier this year could live up to its advance clippings and save people a lot of money.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn't come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds.
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Every year, without fail, spending for services covered by private health insurance increases. Sometimes health care spending grows slowly, as it did in the mid-1990s during the managed-care boom.
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The health insurance salesman who came to Gloria Young's house made a strong pitch. His company's private Medicare plan could meet her needs just as well and much more cheaply.
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The number of U.S. workers with   health-savings accounts grew this year but these accounts and   their associated insurance plans are far from being widely   embraced, researchers concluded in a study released on Tuesday.
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So far employers and their workers have been slow to accept health savings accounts as an alternative to conventional health insurance.