Medicare payments for US elderly to rise 17 pct
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Older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health insurance, US officials announced on Friday.
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Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record $11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise $36, the biggest jump in 14 years.
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It will be the first time that high-income beneficiaries will have higher premiums for Medicare coverage.
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The 42 million disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries will be hit with the largest premium increase in 15 years, Bush administration officials said Friday.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- Although the U.S. government will make about &#36;2.72 billion in extra payments to Medicare private health plans next year, two new reports say the savings to individual beneficiaries will be modest.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record &#36;11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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Older Americans will have to pay  about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health  insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.
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Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Local congressional candidates have weighed in on the 17 percent increase in Medicare Part B monthly premiums recently announced by the Bush administration.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News)  -- The three-year-old Medicare Part D drug program is seeing the number of its enrollees climb, even as costs for the program fall, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.
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Medicare&#39;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
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WASHINGTON One day after President George W. Bush touted his efforts to help the elderly cope with increased medical expenses, US officials announced the largest premium increase in the Medicare program&#39;s history, raising the monthly expense $11.
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Prices for about 200 prescription drugs  in the United States commonly used by seniors rose nearly twice  the rate of inflation, a seniors group said on Tuesday, making  a case for letting the government negotiate drug prices.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp.  said on  Thursday it reached a $900 million deal with the federal  government to settle allegations it bilked Medicare, the U.S.  health insurance program for the elderly, lifting shares as  much as 9 percent.
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More than 47 million Americans receiving Social Security will get a 2.7 percent increase -- an extra $25, on average -- in their monthly checks next year, but much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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The nation's 47 million Social Security recipients got a bit of good news yesterday: their checks next year will increase 2.7 percent, or an average of $25 thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. But looking further into the future, the news is less encouraging. A trio of forces -- higher taxes, rising medical costs, and a mandated increase in ...
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Older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health insurance, U.S. officials announced on Friday.