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Philadelphia hospitals top Pittsburgh’s on Medicare fees

Phil­a­del­phia hos­pi­tals gen­er­ally bill at higher rates than Pitts­burgh’s when it comes to the most com­mon Med­i­care in­pa­tient pro­ce­dures, ac­cord­ing to a re­port from U.S. Centers for Med­i­care & Med­ic­aid

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Oakland medical supply company owners sentenced for Medicare wheelchair fraud

Two medical equipment supply company owners and an associate were sentenced in federal court in Oakland earlier this week to prison terms for their roles in a $1.6 million Medicare

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Spinal fusion costs spur insurance changes, but can Medicare follow?

Over the past two decades, the search for relief from back pain led skyrocketing numbers of Americans to a costly procedure that bonds vertebrae together. But as evidence mounted that

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For Some Doctors, Almost All Medicare Patients Are Above Average

Office visits are the bread and butter of many physicians’ practices. Medicare pays for more than 200 million of them a year, often to deal with routine problems like colds

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New evidence that Medicare Advantage is an insurance industry scam

Big part of the argument made by enemies of the Affordable Care Act that the Act is hurting Medicare applies to a category of health plan known as Medicare Advantage.

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Crackdown Proposed to Prevent Illegal Immigrants From Obtaining Medicare

The Obama administration is planning new steps to prevent people in the country illegally from obtaining Medicare after finding that tens of thousands were improperly receiving benefits. In President Obama’s

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Do You Need Health Insurance if You Have Medicare or Medicaid?

Under health care reform, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, uninsured Americans will be required to have health insurance by March 31, 2014 or face a tax

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IOM says Rochester has lowest Medicare spending rate in nation

A new study finds that the Rochester, N.Y., area has the lowest overall Medicare spending rate in the nation, a feat health officials attribute to aggressive regional planning that keeps

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How to avoid becoming a victim of Medicare fraud

Lee Dorman gets a lot of phone calls from people who want to give him something. Recently, a man called saying he had a new Medicare card with Dorman’s name

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