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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U.S. Medicare officials sought a compromise with private insurers on Monday by dividing the country into more regions, a ruling that could encourage more firms to broaden their health care plan offerings to the elderly.
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For more than a year, officials who run Social Security and Medicare have struggled to mesh their computer systems.
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Steps aimed at cutting Medicare fraud and payment errors in half over the next four years were announced by US health officials on Monday.
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A Congressional committee began looking into business practices in the long-term care insurance industry.
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Gov.-elect John Lynch gave a vote of confidence to state Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen yesterday and said he now has an open mind on Stephen&#39;s Granite Care Medicaid reform plan.
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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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Seeking a bigger say in homeland security decisions, the nation's governors are creating a new, 50-state panel to give the states a single voice on national plans to prepare for threats from terrorists and natural disasters.
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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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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A groundbreaking Minnesota law is shining a rare light into the big money that drug companies spend on members of state advisory panels who help select which drugs are used in Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled.
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Why pay rebates to a select group of elderly? A universal Medicare should look after them all. When Opposition Leader Mark Latham was admitted to hospital as a public patient, he was personally, if painfully, demonstrating a crucial point about Medicare.
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Be aware of the Medicare drug plan's gaps.
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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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Two congressional committees said yesterday that they would investigate business practices at nursing homes owned by private investment groups.
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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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A key component of the new Medicare reform law calls for private insurers to expand their role in Medicare so they would serve large multistate regions.
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Officials are considering plans to hire private groups at taxpayer expense to manage scores of public schools.