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    President-elect Joe Biden's plan to lower the eligibility age for Medicare is popular among voters but is expected to face strong opposition on Capitol Hill.
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    Biden Wants To Lower Medicare Eligibility Age To 60, But Hospitals Push Back

    Nov 11, 2020
    Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.
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    More than 65% of the nation's small, rural hospitals took out loans from Medicare when the pandemic hit. Many now face repayment at a time when they are under great financial strain.<strong></strong>
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    Rural Hospitals Teeter On Financial Cliff As COVID-19 Medicare Loans Come Due

    Sep 22, 2020
    The federal loans were meant to help hospitals survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they're coming due now — at a time when many rural hospitals are still desperate for help.
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    A new report found that citations for over-prescribing antipsychotics to nursing home residents declined significantly between the end of the Obama administration and the first half of the Trump administration.
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    Study: Nursing Home Residents Not Protected From Antipsychotic Drugs Under Trump

    Jul 28, 2020
    Enforcement of rules protecting nursing home residents from antipsychotic drugs has declined during the Trump administration, according to a new report.
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    Shots - Health News
    Funding is shrinking for Medicare's Part A trust fund, which pays for hospitalization and in-patient care. The funding largely comes from a 1.45% payroll tax paid by employees and employers.
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    Another Problem On The Health Horizon: Medicare Is Running Out Of Money

    Jul 21, 2020
    With millions of people out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, fewer payroll taxes are coming in to help keep Medicare's trust fund intact.
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    Casa de Salud clinicians, staff and health apprentices socially distance outside their New Mexico clinic. The facility is one of many social safety net clinics that haven't yet received pandemic-related funding and are now on the brink financially.
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    Medicaid Clinics And Doctors Have Been Last In Line For COVID-19 Relief Funding

    May 18, 2020
    Congress authorized $100 billion to reimburse health care providers for losses linked to the pandemic, but much of that money has gone for Medicare patients, with low-income families left behind.
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    Health Insurance Options Open, Responding To COVID-19 Crisis

    Apr 10, 2020

    On March 5, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak adopted 

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    Patients Want To Die At Home, But Home Hospice Care Can Be Tough On Families

    Jan 21, 2020
    The for-profit hospice industry has grown, allowing more Americans to die at home. But few family members realize that "hospice care" still means they'll do most of the physical and emotional work.
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    Medicare's overhauled Plan Finder debuted at the end of August. But health care advocates and insurance agents say the website has had big problems ever since, including inaccurate details about prices, which drugs each plan covers and their dosages.
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    Will Glitches In Medicare's 'Plan Finder' Leave Some Seniors Stuck In The Wrong Plan?

    Dec 06, 2019
    With a deadline for Medicare enrollment looming, some lawmakers and advocates are concerned that Medicare hasn't done enough to reach out to consumers who might be affected by website problems.
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    Harris Says Culinary Union Shaped Her Medicare Plan

    Nov 09, 2019

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told members of Nevada's most powerful political union that she had them in mind when she proposed a "Medicare for all" plan that preserves private insurance.

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    Whistleblower Alleges Fraud At A Large Medicare Advantage Plan In Seattle

    Oct 18, 2019
    As the Trump administration calls for expanding access to Medicare Advantage, a federal whistleblower lawsuit accuses a large Medicare Advantage plan of bilking Medicare out of $8 million.
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    President Trump signed an executive order requiring changes to Medicare on Oct. 3. The order included some ideas that could raise costs for seniors, depending how they're implemented.
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    Some Parts Of Trump's Executive Order On Medicare Could Lead To Higher Costs

    Oct 08, 2019
    Reviving ideas that were argued over in the 1990s, Trump's new order on Medicare could have some unintended consequences, depending how it's implemented.
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    While prescriptions for durable medical equipment, such as orthotic braces or wheelchairs, have long been a staple of Medicare fraud schemes, some alleged scammers are now using telemedicine and unscrupulous health providers to prescribe unneeded equipme
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    Phone Scammers And 'Teledoctors' Charged With Preying On Seniors In Fraud Case

    Oct 07, 2019
    Officials warn that schemes devised to steal from Medicare have embraced telemedicine. One man was prescribed $4,000 of medical equipment he didn't need and never asked for.
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    President Trump greets supporters after arriving at Florida's Ocala International Airport on Thursday to give a speech on health care at The Villages retirement community. In his speech, Trump gave seniors a pep talk about what he wants to do for Medicar
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    Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare

    Oct 03, 2019
    Speaking from a retirement community in Florida, the president gave seniors a pep talk about what he wants to do for Medicare, contrasting it with plans of his Democratic rivals.
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    Shots - Health News
    Missouri resident Patricia Powers had no health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago; she and her disabled husband were struggling to get by on, at most, $1,500 a month.  If they'd lived across the river in Illinois, she'd have be
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    State Border Splits Neighbors Into Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

    Oct 01, 2019
    On the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, many families struggling financially can get health care, thanks to Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, their neighbors on the Missouri side don't qualify.
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    In the alleged scheme, Medicare beneficiaries were offered, at no cost to them, genetic testing to estimate their cancer risk.
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    U.S. Justice Department Charges 35 People In Fraudulent Genetic Testing Scheme

    Sep 27, 2019
    Doctors, lab technicians and telemarketers from around the U.S. were among those arrested in the investigation of a scheme that the DOJ alleges defrauded seniors and Medicare.
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    A pharmacist collects packets of boxed medication from the shelves of a pharmacy in London, U.K. A proposal announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday would allow the government to directly negotiate the price of 250 U.S. drugs, using what the drug
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    How An 'International Price Index' Might Help Reduce Drug Prices

    Sep 19, 2019
    Drugmakers hate the idea. But Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump both say pegging the prices of U.S. medicine to what people elsewhere pay could save U.S. patients a bundle. Here's how an "IPI" might work.
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    Ten democratic presidential candidates appear onstage before the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University in Houston on Thursday.
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    5 Questions Answered About The 3rd Democratic Debate

    Sep 13, 2019
    Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren faced off onstage for the first time, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wound up taking much of the heat, sparing Warren.
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    If a doctor is found to be ordering too many MRI or CT scans or other imaging tests for Medicare patients, a federal law is supposed to require the physician to get federal approval for all diagnostic imaging. But the Trump administration has stalled the
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    Trump Team Hits Brakes On Law That Would Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs

    Aug 09, 2019
    Critics worry that the administration's delays come at a steep cost: Medicare continues to pay for millions of unnecessary exams and patients are being subjected to radiation for no medical benefit.
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    Shots - Health News
    Plump red blood cells — tumbling amid infection-fighting white blood cells and purple platelets in this colorized, microscopic view — need adequate levels of iron to be able to carry and deliver oxygen around the body. Iron-deficiency anemia is somet
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    $2,733 To Treat Iron-Poor Blood? Iron Infusions For Anemia Under Scrutiny

    Aug 01, 2019
    Iron-deficiency anemia is often remedied with drugstore iron pills. But if that doesn't work, doctors sometimes prescribe iron infusions — and the bill for that can vary by thousands of dollars. Why?
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    "As deductibles rise, patients have the right to know the price of health care services so they can shop around for the best deal," says Seema Verma, who heads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and announced the Trump administration's plan thi
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    Trump Team's Bid To Make Hospital Costs More Transparent Is Data-Heavy

    Jul 31, 2019
    The administration's rules would require hospitals to provide far more detail about the actual prices they charge insurers for medical care. Would patients welcome the data, or feel overwhelmed?
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    President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday proposing to change how kidney disease is treated in the United States. It encourages in-home dialysis and more kidney donations.
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    Trump Administration Announces Plans To Shake Up The Kidney Care Industry

    Jul 10, 2019
    President Trump has signed an executive order pushing for sweeping changes in the way kidney disease is treated.
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    From 2012 through 2016, federal health inspectors cited 87% of U.S. hospices for deficiencies. And 20% had lapses serious enough to endanger patients, according to two new reports from the HHS Inspector General's Office.
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    HHS Inspector General Finds Serious Flaws In 20% Of U.S. Hospice Programs

    Jul 08, 2019
    Two new reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have found widespread problems in hospice care and say the government needs to open its scorecards on hospice care to the public.
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    Social Security Error Jeopardizes Medicare Coverage For 250,000 Seniors

    Jun 06, 2019
    A billing glitch could cause lapses in private drug policies and Medicare Advantage plans that provide both medical and drug coverage. Premiums weren't deducted from some Social Security checks.
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    A proposed change in a formula for Medicare payments could help rural hospitals but would mean less money for hospitals in cities.
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    Richer Medicare Payments For Rural Hospitals Could Come At Urban Centers' Expense

    May 31, 2019
    The administration's proposed adjustment to the wage index, a key factor used to set hospitals' Medicare payments, could help rural facilities while hurting those in cities.
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    Over the past decade, hospitals have been rapidly building outpatient clinics or purchasing existing independent ones. It was a lucrative business strategy because such clinics could charge higher rates, on the premise that they were part of a hospital.
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    Hospitals Chafe Under A Medicare Rule That Reduces Payments To Far-Flung Clinics

    Apr 23, 2019
    Hospital-owned clinics that are miles away should be reimbursed at the same rates as an independent doctor, but not more, Medicare says. That new rule could save taxpayers $380 million in 2019.

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