Articles in Medicare
When a nonprofit healthcare provider in Austin, Texas, ran a check on its patients’ emergency room (ER) visits between 2003 and 2008, they discovered a group of 9 patients who had amassed almost 2,700 ER …
About $1.1 billion of the economic stimulus package just approved by Congress is devoted to comparing the merits and risks of the differing treatment options a patient and physician face when determining the best course …
As many as 72 million prescriptions each year are written for drugs that never received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), costing US taxpayers, by way of the Medicaid program, more than …
A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down but campaign promises made by politicians are best taken with a grain of salt. That includes some of the latest political rhetoric regarding the …
The 15,000 nursing homes in the United States are occupied by at least 1.5 million elderly and invalid Americans, about two-thirds of whom are covered in Medicaid or Medicare programs. In addition to covering the …
Thursday brought two announcements from Medicare officials, one bringing good news, the other not-so-good news. The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Medicare) has announced the names of 10 medical facilities or doctors …
Have your ever been frustrated by your doctor’s handwriting? Illegibly written prescriptions may soon be a thing of the past and medication errors will be drastically reduced if Medicare’s new incentives for ePrescribing are embraced …
As American senators angrily bickered across party lines last week, the bill that met with overwhelming approval in the US House of Representatives that would eliminate a 10% pay cut for doctors treating Medicare patients …
Every doctor in the United States who works with Medicare patients is facing a 10% pay cut starting on July 1. On Tuesday, however, an overwhelming number of the members of the US House of …
The findings of an expansive study on healthcare costs conducted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers were released today, revealing the annual increase in the cost of health care is almost twice as high as the rise in the …
