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medicare
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MedPage Today team gets 13 minutes with Sebelius
The folks over a MedPage Today only had 13 minutes to interview HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on video, but they…
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WSJ sues for release of Medicare provider data
If successful, a legal move by The Wall Street Journal could open a flood of now-confidential Medicare data about providers…
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WSJ exposes flaws of Medicare’s pay now, investigate later culture
In the latest story to take advantage of their paper’s Medicare data trove, The Wall Street Journal‘s Mark Schoofs and…
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Public Citizen: Pharma tops government defrauders
The nonprofit consumer group Public Citizen has conducted an analysis that indicates that the pharmaceutical industry has passed the defense…
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Deal on Medicare reimbursement rates in the works
Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn reports that, by cutting a deal in which customers will have to return more of their excess…
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Boomers line up for Medicare Part D plans
In a Morning Edition piece, NPR’s Kelley Weiss manages to hit all the highlights of this year’s Medicare Part D…
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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,…