| For retirees, the source of health care benefits may be medicare, individual insurance plans, former employer policies, or a combination of these. |
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| He said, for him, the Liberals defined Canada by championing medicare and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by addressing such issues as same-sex marriage. |
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| Once they near retirement, this powerful voting bloc will see Social Security and Medicare as their number one political issue. |
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| Imagine the disappointment if they'd had to turn in their khaki safari jackets and go back to reporting dull stories about Medicare. |
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| Increase the progressivity of the federal income tax, and finance Medicare through increased sin taxes, gas taxes, and general revenue. |
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| Why are they malingering and eating up valuable Medicare tax dollars when they could so easily put us all out of their misery? |
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| All this pointless palaver about safety nets ignores the fact that Medicare IS a safety net. |
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| A Medicare equivalent would provide for the elderly and nonworking population. |
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| Meg may think she's improved Medicare, rebadging the new charity driven outfit as Medicare Plus. |
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| A few years ago, the levels of red ink in the Social Security program and the Medicare program were about the same. |
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| Medicare pays for devices and biologicals with passthrough codes when they are used in the outpatient wound care clinic. |
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| Is the Medicare reimbursement for biologicals that much better than the reimbursement for advanced wound care dressings? |
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| For this small group, a limited, means-tested Medicare drug benefit solves the problem. |
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| Experts say that an alternative to Medicare is a private health insurance plan. |
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| First, Medicare wants to keep health care costs for its beneficiaries under control. |
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| This regulation is considered the most staggering health care law since Medicare. |
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| Kogan observes that the fastest growing federal programs are Medicare and Medicaid. |
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| Only the Australian people can save Medicare by making it their number one priority at the next federal election. |
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| Last year it was Medicare, Australia's public insurance scheme, which was under fire. |
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| The only way to hold to those principles is to have a tax-based funding scheme such as Medicare. |
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| What they're doing is putting the veterans on Medicare programs and sending them to other institutions. |
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| Democrats and Republicans agree that our seniors deserve a secure retirement and a prescription drug coverage in Medicare. |
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| The authors conclude that among Medicare beneficiaries with unstable angina pectoris, more than one half have atypical presentations. |
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| And much of that is going to come out of your own pocket unless you qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. |
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| Medicare and Medicaid, on the other hand, are better at paying for mental health. |
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| Addressing the challenges facing Medicare and Medicaid will be far more difficult. |
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| In the USA most health facilities are privately funded, apart from Medicare and Medicaid. |
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| How did Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly, respond? |
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| He served the Forest department and provided Medicare to several animals, which were sick and dying. |
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| Such a universalist stance obviously includes preserving Medicare and Social Security, as the Democrats emphasized in the 2000 campaign. |
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| No Democrats talk about nationalizing industries, and no Republicans talk about abolishing Social Security or Medicare. |
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| Dividends and capital gains are also exempt from the Social Security and Medicare taxes. |
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| Seniors on Medicare make the same mistake, often because they are exhaustipated. |
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| The fact is that Medicare was basically an honor system that didn't work because the rules were dishonored by too many dishonorable people. |
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| Privatisation has become a social echinacea, a mysterious healing serum being touted as a cure-all for everything from Medicare to education. |
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| Medicare Part B and Medicaid payments to physicians generally are unaffected by a gainsharing arrangement. |
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| To competently provide eldercare services, I encourage CPAs to learn about and understand the differences between Medicare and Medicaid. |
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| In this society, we have largely socialized the cost of aging through programs like Social Security and Medicare. |
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| We don't want to tap into Social Security and Medicare in ways that we shouldn't be. |
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| The challenges of rising health care costs and Medicare premiums will not suddenly abate. |
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| There was never any good reason to believe that voucherizing Medicare would be anything but desperately unpopular. |
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| Right now, I do not see the funds available to save Social Security and Medicare, and we have to address that. |
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| The price tag of the new Medicare law is soaring even faster than prescription-drug costs. |
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| If you look at this new Medicare legislation, for example, it's got health promotion and disease prevention provisions in it. |
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| Minimal rent assistance, family allowances and Medicare health insurance coverage are available. |
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| Within the core Medicare system, most serious mental disorders are treated by psychiatrists. |
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| The other is to find offsets for what we are doing so we don't use Medicare funds and we don't open up the tax cut. |
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| More than three times as many were most concerned about Medicare and health care or jobs and the economy. |
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| It will have wide effects, as Medicare pays for much health care in the United States. |
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| Chargemaster prices are usually 300 percent of what a hospital pays Medicare, or even as much as 2,000 percent. |
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| I guess I don't subscribe to this notion that we have to radically overhaul Medicare. |
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| I was saying though, that if you increase the Medicare surcharge, the government is able to increase rebates. |
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| The subjects, from Medicare lists, were followed for 5 years to look for new heart attacks, angina, heart failure or stroke. |
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| About 6 million very low-income seniors would be ineligible for any prescription drug benefits under Medicare. |
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| Had Recchi been old enough for Medicare, Md Anderson would have been paid a few hundred dollars for all those tests. |
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| You may know that everyone agrees that Social Security and Medicare must be reformed before the baby boomer onslaught hits. |
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| A year ago, Candidate Ryan called for voucher care instead of Medicare for Americans who were then 55 and under. |
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| Boehner has brewed a warmed-over Mitt Romney plan while omitting the noxious idea of voucherizing Medicare. |
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| Moreover, the government undertook to cover smoking-related illnesses under Medicare at a time when Washington was well aware of the unhealthfulness of tobacco. |
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| Without the support of Republicans who ran on no-new-taxes pledges, Boehner would have to woo Democrats skittish of Medicare cuts. |
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| It was Callista, officer, who forced her husband to make his inelegant comments on Medicare that infuriated the conservative base. |
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| There are more than a few internists living in Oak Brook, a tony area with multi-million dollar manses, who seem to be making a great living off Medicare. |
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| Take the question of Medicare, Canada's universal public health system. |
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| On April 10th, Washington debated a new report by Medicare trustee Chuck Blahous. |
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| Along the way, the GOP yearns to privatize and pulverize Medicare and Social Security. |
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| Securing the implementation of health-care reform and reining in Medicare spending would be another priority. |
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| Especially since, after all, Medicare is very much part of the unsubmerged state. |
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| Under the new Medicare law, Medicare beneficiaries have all or part of their prescription-drug costs covered by the government. |
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| So all restoring those cuts means is that it will force quicker drastic action on how to keep Medicare solvent. |
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| Medicare solvency would require an immediate 21 percent tax increase, or an immediate 17 percent cut in benefits. |
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| The doc fix is an attempt to prevent doctors who take Medicare patients from having to take a drastic pay cut. |
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| After all, who in their right mind will run against the now-closed Medicare doughnut hole? |
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| He again turns Medicare into a voucher program, a position he had to stifle in 2012, because Romney did not approve. |
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| Alex, 72, West Palm Beach, FL Alex, a retired lawyer, gets his health care through Medicare. |
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| He straight up said in his speech that he would NEVER voucherize Medicare. |
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| The worst year was 1960, before Medicare and Medicaid were established. |
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| This isn't the first time Medicare has been given a gloomy prognosis. |
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| Tunku Varadarajan on the scary Medicare buy-in, and other goblins lurking within. |
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| They would would voucherize, privatize, and end Medicare as we know it. |
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| Social Security's problems are modest anyway compared to Medicare, and tinkering with the cap should fix a good portion of it. |
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| A public health-care option, or a Medicare buy-in will solve the problem of unaffordable health care in this country? |
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| And have not Medicare and Medicaid, the later children of the Keynesian New Deal, done the same? |
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| Yes, the programs the congressman would slice or revamp, such as Medicare, also help the middle class. |
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| One wonders why a Medicare buy-in wasn't placed front-and-center in the first place. |
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| Montana got Medicare coverage for people living near an asbestos superfund site. |
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| Why is he re-introducing the idea of tampering with Medicare in an election year? |
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| Even the former head of the federal agency that oversees Medicare recently lamented the bulkiness of the program. |
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| All you have to do is sign the Ryan budget into law and privatize Medicare. |
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| The lack of prescription coverage under Medicare is a national scandal. |
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| A federal law designed to cut Medicare costs would have had the perverse effect in at least one state of increasing Medicare costs and patient copayments. |
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| Maybe they'd have saved Medicare Advantage from cuts, gotten some sort of tort reform thrown in, or slightly changed the pay-fors. |
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| As I've written before, Medicare pricing exploits the difference between the marginal cost and the average cost. |
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| Setting the ARD for the Medicare five-day assessment at day five sounds logical, but can be very expensive. |
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| Then Medicare got rid of the cherry picking of seniors and HMOs grew to encompass more insured lives with less favorable health histories. |
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| The depletion of the Medicare Trust Fund had nothing to do with it. |
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| List the key provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 affecting payment for Medicare laboratory services. |
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| The Medicare CNO demonstration was an example of a voluntary, partially capitated demonstration. |
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| The Medicare surtax is collected efficiently and automatically. |
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| In our ever-changing world, to opt out of Medicare may be worth consideration. |
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| More and more physicians are considering opting out of Medicare, as well as many other payment plans. |
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| Compliance with regulations like documentation for Medicare reimbursement is an essential but time-consuming task for the clinician. |
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| The IPF-PPS uses existing DRGs combined with a set of payment adjustors for comorbidities recorded as secondary diagnoses on a Medicare claim. |
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| Instead, we recommend presenting data for all plans nationally in a set of noninteractive tables that users could access on the Medicare website. |
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| Just as with most private insurance, Medicare Part A has out-of-pocket expenses. |
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| The Medicare drug benefit began in 2006 with a voucher approach. |
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| The percentages of Americans with Medicaid and Medicare insurance also have increased sizably. |
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| Thirty-five search warrants were executed as part of an ongoing federal probe into allegations of Medicare fraud and other illegalities. |
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| Medicare reimbursement of hospice care is likely to be affected by the apparent reluctance of hospices to participate in the Medicare program. |
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| In the United States, Medicare, Medicaid, and the US military's TRICARE fall under that definition. |
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| Medicare and Medicaid are forms of publicly funded health care, which fits the looser definition of socialized medicine. |
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| The researchers compared five different opioid drugs, using hydrocodone as the reference medicine among 31,375 Medicare patients. |
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| Latham, under Medicare Gold, will summon teams of nurses to gently massage your shagger's back. |
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| As for revamping Medicare, this is an across-the-board stinker. |
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| The act also expands the Medicare telemedicine coverage area, said Jonathan Linkous, executive director, American Telemedicine Association. |
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| Those in Medicare who have non-Medicaid drug coverage, such as private insurance, are allowed to get a Medicare card. |
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| For the Medicare assessments you have 14 days from the ARD to complete the assessments. |
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| We pay into Medicare and Social Security so it will be them when you need it. |
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| Presently Medicare requires copayments for many of its services, but until now home health care has been the exception rather than the rule. |
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| The president raised the Medicare eligibility age by two years? |
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| That's when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to apply a value-based modifier to Medicare fee-for-service payments. |
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| Cattie will present on current updates to the Medicare Secondary Payer and CMS procedural changes. |
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| Medicare is a monopsonist in the market for medical care for those age 65 and over, as well as for individuals with end stage renal disease. |
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| On Al Gore's ticket, Joe Lieberman campaigned for a Medicare buy-in. |
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| Medicare requires nurse anesthetists be supervised by an anesthesiologist or surgeon. |
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| The Medicare Modernization Act was passed by lawmakers in late November 2003 and signed by President Bush in early December. |
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| There is no such thing as a Medicare doctor, hospital, or pharmacist. |
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| If Medicare does not cover all your child's medical needs, you can look into purchasing a Medigap policy. |
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| Usually, Medicare and Medigap policies cover some of the first 100 days of nursing home care. |
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| Want to know more about osteoporosis, aids for arthritics, Medicare? |
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| Wilensky holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a 15-page curriculum vitae covering 20 years of experience in analyzing issues concerning Medicare and Medicaid. |
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| They found that patients were significantly less likely to undergo evaluation, waitlisting and eventual transplantation if they were women, black or covered by Medicare. |
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| Every year a new budget must be formed to allocate funds to the agencies such as the DoD and government programs such as Social Security and Medicare. |
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| Medicare benefits are available to all persons ordinarily resident in Australia with the exception of members of foreign diplomatic missions and their dependants. |
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| They claim that a co-existing program, shored up by premium support, would leave Medicare only the sickest, poorest patients and drive up government costs. |
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| The Medicare HMO plans got a shot in the arm by federal Medicare reform act funds, with higher values reversing a two-year decline across the state. |
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| By not participating in Medicare a physician is upholding the Constitution, preventing the communization of the world, and proudly maintaining the integrity of his profession. |
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| In an effort to both transform Medicare cost sharing and internalize the provision of Medigap benefits through a comprehensive Medicare benefits option, Davis et al. |
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| The aim of this paper is to examine the strengths and limitations of using CMS's CCW algorithm with Medicare claims data to identify chronic conditions in older persons. |
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| Were women asked, in the interests of multiculturalism, to lobby to have Medicare cover the cost of clitoridectomies, we would have a further dilemma. |
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| To make sure that physicians comply with Medicare law, the number of FBI fraud and abuse investigative agents has been greatly increased to formicate all over physicians. |
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| As a result, insurance policies, called Medigap policies or Medicare supplement policies, are available to cover required coinsurance payments, copayments, and deductibles. |
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| After 18 months the business was recently revalidated by Medicare. |
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| Yet President's Bush's proposed budget shortchanges important priorities like homeland security, education, Social Security and Medicare while creating huge budget deficits. |
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| Reopened in 2012 under new mgtment business has been updated with new xray and lab equipment, and with the recent addition of Medicare, business will continue to grow. |
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| It would ensure that Minnesota health care facilities will be reimbursed by Medicare whenever a nurse anesthetists provides anesthesia services to a Medicare patient. |
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| People with astigmatism and cataracts may benefit from a revised Medicare rule extending coverage for the new type of implantable lenses that treats both conditions. |
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| I'm so irritated,'' said Golden, 71, of Glendale, one of an estimated 100 seniors at a Medicare Forum on Thursday at United Methodist Church in Glendale. |
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| Altman, who added that the reduction came from a rejiggering of Medicare payments to private insurance plans for beneficiaries enrolled in ' Medicare Advantage. |
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| In addition, dropouts age 25 and older report being in worse health than adults who are not dropouts, and are more likely to rely on Medicaid, Medicare, and welfare. |
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| The clawback payment is the amount states pay to the federal government to offset some of the added expense to Medicare Part D of assuming drug costs for the dual eligibles. |
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| In addition to the requirements for OBRA assessments described above, Medicare MDSs have a higher frequency of required assessments, each with its own ARD window. |
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| The mandatory plans are Social Security, Medicare, and SDRS, and the fourth is the optional SRP plan, which allows individuals to contribute pre-tax dollars. |
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| Organizations that operate PACE programs receive capitated payments, usually from both Medicare and Medicaid, and are responsible for all the services a member needs. |
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| Congress will soon begin debating the addition of a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program to bring the program into the modem medical era. |
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| The AMA will seek federal legislation to require secondary insurers to pay Medicare deductibles and copayments, regardless of how much Medicare pays for the service. |
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| Most people do not factor in their out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs when comparing Medicare drug coverage, according to a recent study conducted by eHealth, Inc. |
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| Call it by either term, but this is what the city of Worcester has committed for many years to enroll over 80 percent of its retirees into Medicare. |
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| Because nearly one-third of the nation's 40 million Medicare beneficiaries lack outpatient prescription-drug coverage, many seniors are struggling to pay for necessary drugs. |
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