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Old age may not ruin Medicare budgets after all

Pacific Standard Americans are living longer?which means we’re all going to be stuck with ever-increasing medical bills for the growing ranks of the elderly, right? Though many analysts think so,

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Make Sense of Medicare

Once you turn 65, Medicare pays the bulk of your medical expenses. But Medicare has its own lingo, and sometimes it can be tough to translate. Medicare also has its

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How Medicare Covers Ambulance Services

If you have Original Medicare, your Part B (medical insurance) covers ambulance services to or from a hospital, critical-access hospital or skilled nursing facility only when other transportation could endanger

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Should rural hospitals close to save Medicare money?

Here’s a thought experiment on why it’s so hard to save money in Medicare: The Inspector General’s office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week issued

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Will Obamacare Affect Medicare? Myths and Facts

Until now, the country’s 49.5 million Medicare beneficiaries have mostly felt the impact of health care reform in their doctors’ offices, where preventative services such as annual wellness checkups, immunizations

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