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medicare
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Four states refuse to name hyper-prescribing docs
As part of his war against overprescription and fraud, Sen. Charles Grassley asked states to share data on doctors who …
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Report projects 134,000 hospital patients a month experience adverse events
More than 13 percent of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were harmed during a hospital stay, according to a study released by…
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Anti-fraud guide may be useful to reporters
A just-issued 31-page guide for new physicians from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General teaches doctors how (and why) to…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…
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Drugs send more of the 45-plus crowd to hospitals
At a time when overall prescription drug use is climbing across the board, the AHRQ reports that the number of…
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Medicare competitive bidding ramps up
The California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun teamed up for a package…
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Pharmaceutical spending varies geographically
The New England Journal of Medicine has examined geographical variation in Medicare drug spending, an area the authors said previous…
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Fraud-busting contractors slow to refer cases
Despite recent high-profile busts, the private contractors hired by Medicare to sniff out fraud cases and refer them to law…
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How reform will affect America, group by group
In Health Affairs (AHCJ members get free access), economist Joseph Newhouse considers how health care reform will affect four major…
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Waiting period affects 2 million disabled Americans
Nearly 2 million disabled Americans “fall into a twilight with the first monthly Social Security disability payment, for they then…