Oncologists Say Medicare Won&#39;t Cover Drug Costs
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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors&#39; offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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FRIDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to include more private insurers in Medicare may be costing the agency more money, new research shows.
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It's a new way to push for patient safety: Don't pay hospitals when they commit certain errors. Medicare will start hitting hospitals where it hurts in October, and other insurers are hot on the trail.
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U.S. cancer doctors on Thursday plan  to ratchet up pressure on the federal Medicare agency to  reverse new limits on use of anemia drugs made by Amgen Inc.  and Johnson & Johnson.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced a proposal Monday to expand Medicare coverage for certain clinical trials for cancer drugs and pay cancer doctors to measure patient reaction to potent medication.
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Two-thirds of chronically ill patients failed to tell their doctors they would have to skimp on their medicines because of cost, according to a new study published yesterday.
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Cuts to Medicare will hurt the elderly and community cancer centers in the United States, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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Medicare's new prescription drug coverage should help most elderly, including some of the poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will pay more for medicine, according to an analysis released on Monday.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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Far from the expected deluge, relatively few patients with cancer and other serious illnesses have applied for generous early Medicare prescription drug coverage.
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Americans who previously had no health insurance rack up some expensive medical bills once they are old enough to be covered by Medicare, researchers said on Wednesday.
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The New York Times on Sunday examined the &quot;huge battle&quot; between insurers and pharmaceutical companies over the number of medications that will be covered under the new Medicare law (Pear, New York Times, 9/26).
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Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram's cost leads many older women to skip the breast cancer exam, a large study of Medicare users finds.
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Wider coverage for expensive  implanted heart devices likely will cost the U.S. Medicare  program for seniors about $2 billion over five years, the  program's administrator said on Thursday.
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It sounded simple enough on the campaign trail: Free the government to negotiate lower drug prices and use the savings to plug a big gap in Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit. But as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress, they are struggling to keep that promise without wrecking a...