Article: Nonpartisan Medicare Information Available on National Academy of Social Insurance Website

Article: Addressing Medicare.(Brief article)
Clinical Psychiatry News;  January 1, 2006 ;     516 words ...The parity bills now in Congress apply only to private health insurance plans, Mr. Meyers pointed out. The bills do not address Medicare, even though Medicare beneficiaries have to pay a higher copay--50% of the bill--for mental health care than they do for physical health care, for which they pay

Article: How to Fix Medicare.(Brief article)(Book review)
Internet Bookwatch;  October 1, 2008 ;     412 words ...How to Fix Medicare Roger Feldman AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 9780844742656, $15.00, www.aei.org Is the answer to America's health care crisis lie in a budget for patients? "How to Fix Medicare: Let's Pay Patients, Not Physicians" is a unique proposal calling for a

Article: Pricing Out Medicare.(Brief article)
U.S. News & World Report;  June 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Medicare paid hospitals more than $35,000 on average in 2005 to insert a heart defibrillator; an uncomplicated spinal fusion ran nearly $17,000--not including physician and various other charges. How will Americans react to knowing such numbers? With heightened appreciation for the escalating cost

Article: Implantable Defibrillators under Medicare.(Brief ...
Kiplinger's Retirement Report;  November 1, 2004 ;     471 words ...MEDICARE n More will get implantable defibrillators. Nearly 500,000 beneficiaries at risk of death from coronary heart disease will be eligible for an implantable cardioverter defibrillator starting next year. That's a 33% increase. The device implanted in a patient's chest delivers an electrical

Article: At a Glance.(Medicare)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
Healthcare Financial Management;  February 1, 2003 ;     537 words ...AT A GLANCE MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT CONVERSION FACTORS, 1999-2003 Conversion Factor 1999 $34.73 2000 $36.61 2001 $38.26 2002 $36.19 2003 $34.59 Source: DGA Partners analysis of CMS data. Note: Table made from bar graph

Article: Reagan: Changed Medicare.(Brief article)
Modern Healthcare;  August 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ...President Ronald Reagan's two terms included some key healthcare policy changes, especially in Medicare. One plan, which completely overhauled how the program is administered, remains in effect today. Another suffered a quick demise. The administration's implementation of the Medicare prospective

Article: Overheard.(ETCETERA)(medicare)(Brief article)
Healthcare Financial Management;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ..."We'd rather get it out there, do it ourselves, before we're told we have to do it." --Craig Becker, president of the Tennessee Hospital Association, which plans to launch a web site containing hospital charges this spring "I think we're still at the point where we have to deal with this on a