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• in Politics
  Obama Is About To Sell Out Ordinary Americans
  Is Obama a turncoat?
  by amohit / on Dec 6, 2012
• in Politics
  Fiscal Cliff and Some Rambling
  Fiscal Cliff is a figment of Wall Street imagination
  by amohit / on Nov 29, 2012
• in Business
  Do You Know What the 'Fiscal Cliff' Is?
  You've heard so much about the 'fiscal cliff', but do you know what it is? Here's a simple breakdown, and what it will cost to avoid falling over the edge.
  by dopodomani / on Nov 18, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “medicare”

 

• CBS Investigates Life Care Centers’ Alleged Medicare Fraud

  
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  Former Life Care Centers of America employees are speaking out against the company, which is currently under federal scrutiny amid allegations it has been overbilling Medicare millions of dollars each year for unnecessary or excessive therapy, reports CBS This Morning (CTM). With more than 30,000 beds, Life Care ...
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• Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at Risk

  
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  An analysis of four years of Medicare prescription records shows that some doctors and other health professionals across the country prescribe large quantities of drugs that are potentially harmful, disorienting or addictive The post Medicare Drug Program Fails to Monitor Prescribers, Putting Seniors and Disabled at ...
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• One of the reasons our health care costs are so high…

  
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  … is because we refuse to standardize prices for treatment.  I think I have told this story before but here it is again.  My French lab partner’s husband had a hernia operation.  It was outpatient and he spent about 4 hours in the hospital, not even enough time to get his gourmet meal.  When she got the bill, ...
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• The lesson of ‘Julius’

  
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  Remember last year when the Obama campaign came up with the idea for “Julia”, a fictional woman who was supposed to represent how Obama made life better for women everywhere? (You know, that phony, made-up ‘War on Women’ and all that.) I wrote about this  about a year ago. Well, one year later the good ...
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• Video Chart: Federal Revenue from Social Insurance Taxes Since 1950

  
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• About Prescriber Checkup, a tool for comparing health providers

  
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  Q. What’s the purpose of Prescriber Checkup ? A. We’ve made it easy to search for doctors and other health providers who are active in Medicare’s prescription drug program, called Part D. You can find out how many prescriptions each wrote and which drugs were prescribed. You can compare your doctor with ...
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• Saving for Retirement – Will You Have Enough?

  
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  3 Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Saving for Retirement I don’t want to be the one that bursts your bubble, but even as we are saving for retirement, the plain fact of the matter is that many of us will be working until the day we die. I can hear gasps of disbelief, and yes, some are laughing at this ...
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• Say goodbye to 2015/2016 income tax cuts

  
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  Due to a budget blowout caused by “an over-hang from the global financial crisis and strong Australian dollar”, the federal government has informally announced (drip fed via a series of casual comments in various interviews) that the income tax cuts, that were to take effect from 1 July 2015, are no longer going ...
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• The federales’ open data policy and the Medicare hospital chargemaster data dump … Please don’t inundate us with junk.

  
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  By David Harlow First Posted at HealthBlawg on 5/10/2013 So just about everyone is pretty pumped about the White House announcement of its new open data policy. Todd Park gives us the skinny on the latest in Open Government — The Executive Order and related Open Data Policy – in 60 seconds. (Gotta love that ...
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• Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren join fight against chained CPI

  
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  Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Al Franken added their very strong and very progressive voices to the fight to stop the chained CPI, and any cuts to Social Security, in a summit this week organized by Social Security Works. Along with Sens. Bernie Sanders and Jack Reed and Reps. Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Peter DeFazio ...
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• Kasich remains optimistic about Medicaid expansion deal

  
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  Gov. Kasich said this week that he would support a ballotinitiative to expand Medicaid, although he is still holding out hope that thestate legislature will pass an expansion bill first (Source: “ Governor patienton Medicaid issue ,” Toledo Blade, May 10, 2013). While leadership in both the Ohio House and ...
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• Wide variation seen in Medicare charges across Ohio

  
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  Newly released federal data on hospital charges showsdramatic variation in costs throughout Ohio (Source: “ Medical charges varywidely across Ohio ,” Newark Advocate, May 9, 2013). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made publicthis week the average charges for the 100 most frequently billed services ...
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• Executive Spotlight: Stephanie Hill, Lockheed IS&GS President on the Federal Budget and Becoming an Engineer

  
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  Stephanie C. Hill serves as the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions’ civil product line where she oversees a team of around 10,000 people. She joined the... Read more »
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• Medicare Fraud: You Can Help Prevent, Detect, and Report

  
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  From Baton Rouges Home Instead Senior Care blog.The media is discovering more and more accounts of medicare fraud every week. Right here in Baton Rouge, The Advocate reports that at least 17 people... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• IFV 2013: Pensions, Disability con’d: Latest Updates on Current Cases from John Hogan

  
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  The 10-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is going into its third year. How has it worked out for you and your families? How will some of the most recent disability rulings affect future cases? And just how did that Legacy Fund work out for each of you? John Hogan has been advocating for a total [...]
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• RACs reclaim $1.37B in overpayments as criticism mounts

  
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  In the first six months of fiscal 2013, Medicare recovery auditors (RAC) collected $1.37 billion in overpayments and returned $65.4 million in underpayments, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. read more
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• GOP continues to fight Obamas health reform law

  
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  The fighting continues on Capitol Hill as Republicans refuse to offer input on a panel created to slow the growth of Medicare spending and prepare for a vote to repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law. read more
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• Australian income tax rates for the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 years

  
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  The tax rates applicable for the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 years are set out below. We have included the tax rates for the 2012 year (including the low-income threshold for the Medicare levy announced in the May 2012 Federal budget) at the end of the article, for your reference and convenience. The post Australian ...
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• CMS Will Hold a Conference Call on Wednesday, May 22 to Discuss the National Physician Payment Transparency Program

  
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  By Nancy A. Henshaw The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is continuing its efforts to inform interested parties on its National Physician Payment Transparency Program (Program). The Program implements the Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests ...
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• Useless noise from CMS

  
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  By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 5/8/2013 What on earth did CMS have in mind when it released the FY2011 chargemasters for America’s hospitals?  Well, according to one report: The public release of the data is part of an effort by Medicare to increase transparency in the health system.  ...
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