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• Ongoing Support Needed For Medical Practices To Process Electronic Medicare Claims, Australia

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the increase in electronic Medicare rebate claiming announced by the Government is a good case to introduce ongoing financial support to assist medical practices cover the administrative costs associated with electronic claiming. Dr Pesce said Medicare Easyclaim had ...
  12 hours ago

• The Structured Settlements Industry 12 Days of Christimas-A Parody

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 132
  Weve all lived through a lot this year so in reflecting back over the past 12 months its only fitting that we memorialize it in an irreverent song!  Click the image below for background music! On the 1st day Xmas my Industry gave to me,  a cartridge in a Bair Tree On the 2nd day of Xmas my industry gave to me, 2 ...
  2 days ago

• Republicans Bitter About Deals, Resigned About Likely Overhaul Passage

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  After a series of last minute deals paved the way for Senate Democrats to move forward with health overhaul legislation, Republicans lashed out, but also acknowledged that their options for fighting the legislation at this late date are limited. Bloomberg/BusinessWeek: "The debate over legislation overhauling the U.S. ...
  2 days ago

• Difficult Issues Will Remain Even If Senate Democrats Pass Health Bill

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., made two major changes to the Senates version of the health overhaul legislation - removing the proposed "public option" and restricting abortion coverage - that have helped ease tension enough to secure more votes for the bill, but left advocates with much to complain about. ...
  3 days ago

• Reids Fight To Get 60 Votes Dims Liberals Hopes Of Compromises In Conference Committee

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  Although the liberals and union leaders once hoped that a House-Senate conference committee could undo some of the compromises and move the health overhaul bill more to their liking, the "titanic struggle to lock in Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) as the 60th senator for the first key test vote early Monday morning has ...
  4 days ago

• Health Industry Revenue Up 5.7 Percent, Some Seniors Head South For Care

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Dallas Morning News reports that the U.S. Census released a report Thursday that showed health care industrys revenues grew 5.7 percent in 2008 to $1.75 trillion. The number represents 30 percent of economic activity in the U.S., according to a Census official. "The Census Bureau cites Texas as one of the most ...
  5 days ago

• Wisconsin Cuts $600 Million From Medicaid Budget, Still Faces Deficit

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Associated Press reports that the top Wisconsin health official said Thursday that the state is "on track to cut more than $600 million from Medicaid, but even with those reductions, high demand from the poor for insurance benefits could result in up to a $150 million shortfall." Karen Timberlake, secretary of the ...
  5 days ago

• White House Stung By Liberal Health Bill Backlash

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Wall Street Journal reports on the criticism emanating from the left regarding the Senate health bill. "Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is mounting a campaign of sorts against the initiative in its current form. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has declared, This is not health. This is not care. This is certainly not ...
  5 days ago

• Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 168
  To get the 60 votes needed to pass their bill, Democrats scrapped the idea of a government-run public insurance plan, cherished by liberals.
  6 days ago

• Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  To get the 60 votes needed to pass their bill, Democrats scrapped the idea of a government-run public insurance plan, cherished by liberals.
  6 days ago

• Late Night: Wanted: A New White House Communications Director

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 729
  Continue in the faith, stable and steadfast? (St. Paul by Comper; photo: Lawrence OP) After reading Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s piece in the New York Times on the “liberal revolt on health care” that is stinging the White House, I have come to the conclusion that President Obama might be in need of a new ...
  1 week ago

• CHIP Remains in Jeopardy, Despite Rockefeller Plan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) (Photo by Mark Murrmann/ZUMA Press) Appearing on the television earlier this week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) boasted of the Senate’s efforts to keep alive the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program. “That’s 14.1 million children who will continue to get health ...
  1 week ago

• Medicaid Woes Lead To A Creative Solution In Utah, Cuts In Kansas

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Salt Lake Tribune: "After years of fighting the hated sick tax, Utah hospitals are working with legislative leaders to craft a new levy aimed at helping pay for treating Utahs poor." Hospitals and the state legislature have found a way to raise around $50 million in new federal Medicaid funding by taxing hospitals ...
  1 week ago

• Liebermans Health Care Move Still Reverberating

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  Politico: "Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is taking a thrashing from his former Democratic colleagues and liberal activists for forcing a Medicare expansion out of the health bill. But in the end, Lieberman may have done President Barack Obama one of the biggest favors in the health care debate. Thats because any bill ...
  1 week ago

• House Votes To Extend COBRA Benefits, Delay Medicare Physician Pay Cuts

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The House of Representatives voted yesterday to delay Medicare doctor payment cuts and extend COBRA benefits. Bloomberg: "A health-care subsidy that lowers insurance premiums by 65 percent for some unemployed U.S. workers was extended for six months under legislation approved in the House. ... The House ...
  1 week ago

• HEALTH REFORM: Care Gap for College Students

  
  Health Policy Program: Latest Blog Posts — Authority: 134
  Author(s):  Allison Levy December 17, 2009 Nineteenth birthdays are usually not particularly scary occasions. But for Brittany Hunsaker, turning 19 made her one day too old to qualify for the ...
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• Medicare Announces Solicitation Of Fiscal Year Fy 2010 State Health Insurance Assistance Program Grants

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is making $45 million in direct grants and support contracts available for State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIP). The Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Grants are continuation funds available to 54 existing SHIP organizations in the United States and ...
  1 week ago

• Hospital, Physician Lobbyists Fought Medicare Buy-In Proposal

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Washington Post offers a look at how hospital and physician lobbyists adamantly fought the Medicare buy-in proposal, which would have allowed people age 55 to 64 to buy Medicare coverage. Such efforts led to the proposals disappearance within six days. "Four days before the Senate jettisoned the idea of expanding ...
  1 week ago

• Major Medicare Fraud Crackdown In 3 States

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  The Associated Press: "Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams. Arrests in Miami, Brooklyn and Detroit included a Florida doctor accused of running a $40 million home health care scheme ...
  1 week ago

• Liberals Agitated By Compromise, But Appear To Back Health Reform

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  Politico reports that liberals are accruing a long list of reasons to be upset about the health reform negotiations: "A single-payer plan, a public option, a state opt-out of the public option, a trigger and a Medicare buy-in - all ideas pushed by Democrats and blessed by [President] Obama at various times but now ...
  1 week ago

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