State Medicare group takes watchdog, education roles
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The Illinois Foundation for Health Care helps the flow of services funded by Medicare, the federal health-care program for seniors, to beneficiaries in Illinois.
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A Montgomery County hospital threatened with state fines and loss of Medicare funding after a patient's death from malnutrition is back in compliance with state and federal regulators.
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Regulation and ethical battles swirl ahead as the state figures out how to spend its $3 billion initiative.
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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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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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The Massachusetts Hospital Association yesterday selected Lynn B. Nicholas , former head of the American Diabetes Association, to be chief executive of the statewide organization, which lobbies for hospitals and other healthcare providers.
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A U.S. group advising Medicare on its new prescription drug benefit released a proposal on Thursday that could determine how likely the latest medicines are to be covered for the elderly.
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The new law has touched off a battle between insurance companies and drug companies that could determine how many medicines will be readily available to Medicare beneficiaries.
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A U.S. group advising Medicare on  the new government prescription drug benefit said on Monday it  had submitted a final recommendation to the agency that could  help determine which medicines will be covered for the elderly.
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A Senate commission studying Maryland's medical malpractice crisis gave some ground yesterday on legal changes sought by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) and endorsed the creation of a state fund that would subsidize doctors' insurance costs for the next four years.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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Medicare is paying for new and expensive treatments and tests conditional on agreement by companies or other groups to pay for studies on whether they actually worked.
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A US group charged with helping to develop Medicare guidelines released a proposal on Thursday classifying medicines in groups that could determine how likely certain drugs would be covered under a new prescription drug benefit.
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The U.S. government hopes to entice  companies into offering the elderly cost-saving prescription  drug benefits next year while making sure they have access to  most medicines, according to Medicare rules issued on Friday.
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As insurers across the nation consider increasing coverage of medical weight-loss treatments, a Medicare advisory committee on Thursday will examine data on bariatric weight-loss surgery to determine whether CMS should expand coverage of the surgery as a
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Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings vowed to implement some of the measures recommended by a federal panel, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has requested information on how to integrate business rules engines and business process management software to modernize Medicareâs fee-for-service claims processing system.