Thursday, October 4, 2012

Medicare

  • Medicare fraud case: 91 professionals arrested

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Justice Department announced criminal charges Thursday against 91 people who allegedly received about $430 million through wide-ranging Medicare fraud. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services ...

    money.cnn.com

  • Poll: Medicare prescription drug program popular

    Obama, Romney battle over economic visions. Poll: Medicare prescription drug program popular. On Politics. David JacksonShare.

    www.usatoday.com

  • Fact checking the presidential debate: Education, 'Obamacare', taxes, Medicare ...

    The president's healthcare law does reduce future spending on Medicare, but those savings are obtained by reducing federal payments to insurance companies, hospitals and other providers, and do not affect benefits for people in the Medicare program.

    www.chicagotribune.com

  • Boomers' Guide to Medicare's Open Enrollement Season

    Close to 50 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare, and that number will continue to increase as more baby boomers turn 65.

    www.foxbusiness.com

  • Obama Plans to Cut Medicare, Bob Woodward Says

    President Barack Obama has been saying for months that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney plans to slash Medicare spending, thereby denying senior citizens healthcare, but that Obama himself will save and strengthen it.

    www.thenewamerican.com

  • Elizabeth Warren talks Medicare with Medford seniors

    Elizabeth Warren talks Medicare with Medford seniors. Print | Comments () Posted by Matt Byrne October 4, 2012 08:30 AM. E-mail.

    www.boston.com

  • Admit It: Medicare Errs In Crackdown On Hospital Quality

    A computer programming error led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to miscalculate financial penalties against hospitals that have high rates of patients returning within 30 days.

    www.npr.org

  • What Is The Independent Medicare Advisory Board?

    The Independent Medicare Advisory Board is covered in Title III, Section 3403 of the Affordable Care Act. If you care to read this section, it starts on page 982.

    www.forbes.com

  • 2 Illinois defendants charged with Medicare fraud

    Downers Grove dermatologist Dr. Robert Kolbusz (KOHL'-buz) was charged with falsely diagnosing patients and billing Medicare and private insurers for ineffective and falsely documented treatments. Psychologist Sharon Rinaldi of Inverness was charged ...

    www.sfgate.com

  • Substance versus style in the debate

    MSNBC's Richard Lui talks about the claims made during the presidential debate about the deficit, Medicare and Social Security with both RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer and DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse sharing their ...

    video.msnbc.msn.com

  • AM Alert: Barbara Boxer talks up hot-button issue of Medicare

    VIDEO: As the season of political ads descends upon us, Dan Walters asks, "Are you ready to have your intelligence insulted?" With health care much on the minds of California voters, Sen. Barbara Boxer will be talking up President Barack Obama's ...

    blogs.sacbee.com

  • AARP objects to Obama invoking group's support during debate

    The nation's leading senior advocacy organization objected after the president during Wednesday's debate twice mentioned the AARP while defending his health care plan and attacking Mitt Romney's plans for Medicare. The AARP posted a blog saying that ...

    www.foxnews.com

  • Mary Beth Franklin: Advisers and clients don't talk Medicare

    Despite the serious concerns that many retirees have over rising health care costs, fewer than one-third of those who work with a financial adviser have ever discussed their Medicare plans, according to a new nationwide survey released Thursday.

    www.investmentnews.com

  • Authorities uncover $429 million in Medicare fraud

    Individuals in seven cities across the country have been indicted for cheating Medicare out of money for a range of health care services.

    www.washingtontimes.com

  • Lamontagne tries to distance himself from support of state-managed Medicare

    HENNIKER - Republican gubernatorial candidate Ovide Lamontagne Thursday tried to distance himself from his own support for the state to eventually manage Medicare coverage for seniors. During a debate at New England College in Henniker, ...

    www.nashuatelegraph.com

  • Cravaack, Nolan battle over Medicare

    Cravaack started the Medicare campaign war this week with a television spot criticizing Nolan for supporting a proposal to cut the Medicare spending growth by nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. In the television ad Cravaack says, "My opponent ...

    minnesota.publicradio.org

  • McMahon statements make Social Security, Medicare campaign issues

    In a race that is still anyone's game, Connecticut Democrats believe they smell blood in the water against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon after a video was released last week where she suggests "sunset provisions" could be looked at for ...

    www.greenwich-post.com

  • John Berman debate fact check on Medicare, tax cut, deficit claims

    Obama is cutting $716 billion from Medicare that will affect current people in the program. Berman says that his is also FALSE as Pres.

    cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  • DCCC Dings Ann Marie Buerkle On Medicare

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is sounding the Medicare alarm bell again, and this time it tolls for incumbent GOP Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle.

    www.nydailynews.com

  • Preserving Medicare is a main concern for some California voters

    Bill Schuman, a semiretired 67-year-old management consultant who is active in the Republican Club at Sun City Lincoln Hills, is concerned that the Medicare coverage that he and his wife, Beth, automatically began receiving at age 65 won't be there ...

    www.adn.com

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