Article: SEN. MURRAY JOINS SENATE TO PASS LEGISLATION TO FIX MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT RATES, URGES PRESIDENT TO SIGN BILL AND AVOID CUTS IN PAYMENTS TO DOCTORS

Article: SENATE PROTECTS 350,000 NEVADA MEDICARE PATIENTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     167 words ......veto-proof passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients...Providers Act in the Senate. This Medicare bill will prevent an enormous...payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. Such a cut could have resulted...worked to move forward this bill that will help protect ...

Article: Bill increases benefits for Medicare patients
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 15, 2000 ;     663 words ...Bill increases benefits for Medicare patients Cost of outpatient care...bipartisan support. The bill improves coverage of mammography...benefits are included in a bill that also increases Medicare...significant features of the bill is a provision limiting...another provision of ...

Article: REP. BERKLEY WORKS TO PROTECT DOCTOR ACCESS FOR NEVADA MEDICARE PATIENTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 24, 2008 ;     379 words ......payments to physicians who serve Medicare patients. "Congress must act before...of June to protect Nevada Medicare patients from losing access to their physicians. This bill will protect critical access...recognize the importance of this bill and will not seek to veto...preventing ...

Article: MURKOWSKI SPONSORS LEGISLATION TO ENSURE THAT MEDICARE PATIENTS CAN CHOOSE OWN DOCTORS
Capitol Hill Press Releases;  October 7, 1997 ;     403 words ......LEGISLATION TO ENSURE THAT MEDICARE PATIENTS CAN CHOOSE OWN DOCTORS WASHINGTON...effort to make sure that Medicare patients are free to choose their...Freedom to Contract Act, a bill that will restore the Senate...beneficiaries. Under the bill, Medicare beneficiaries can...outlawing ...

Article: Doctors' revolt threatens Medicare patients' access.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......hundreds of elderly Medicare patients. One shows him the...are turning away Medicare patients. Fearon, a family...sees his longtime Medicare patients, but he and three...longer accept new Medicare patients. Doctors are finding...stop taking new Medicare ...

Article: SEN. ENZI HELPING WYOMING PHARMACISTS HELP MEDICARE PATIENTS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 19, 2007 ;     415 words ......Committee, is co-sponsoring a bill to support Wyoming pharmacists...quickly as possible and guarantee Medicare patients have access to local pharmacists...its inception in 1965. This bill will protect the valuable role...of prescription drugs, the bill would modify federal ...

Article: Orthopedics practice caps number of Medicare patients
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  January 12, 2006 ;     517 words ......nothing to do with her diagnosis. Szymanski, a Medicare patient, learned her doctor's practice has decided it cannot afford to take new Medicare patients and urged them to complain to Congress...doctors said they will no longer accept new Medicare patients because of smaller payments from ...

Article: AMA Voices Concern Over HMOs Dropping Medicare Patients.
PR Newswire;  July 8, 1999 ;     267 words ......intention to drop approximately 250,000 Medicare patients this year. This is in addition to...cut at the beginning of 1999. Many Medicare patients have not been able to join another...however, continue to treat their Medicare patients even though their payment updates...

Article: MEDICARE CUTS PUT LOCAL DOCTORS "OVER A BARREL'; DOCTORS REACT TO CUTS IN MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT; PHYSICIANS FACE A CHOICE: SEE MORE PATIENTS, OR REFUSE NEW MEDICARE PATIENTS.(Business)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cut he and other doctors who treat Medicare patients took Jan. 1. Medicare, the federal...expected to start turning away new Medicare patients because of lower reimbursement. The...nationwide may be unable to take new Medicare patients - making it harder for some senior...

Article: Orthopedics practice caps number of Medicare patients; Business protesting declining government reimbursements
Naperville Sun, The (IL);  January 10, 2006 ;     526 words ......nothing to do with her diagnosis. Szymanski, a Medicare patient, learned her doctor's practice has decided it cannot afford to take new Medicare patients and urged them to complain to Congress...doctors said they will no longer accept new Medicare patients because of smaller payments from ...

Article: AdvaMed Urges Democratic National Convention to Address Barriers Medicare Patients Face Accessing Latest Advances in Medical Technology.
PR Newswire;  August 15, 2000 ;     340 words ......thousands of America's 39 million Medicare patients will not gain access to the advanced...report found that it can take Medicare 15 months to five years, and...legislative efforts to ensure Medicare patients have access to advanced in medical...medicalaccesstoc51000.html. Giving ...

Article: SCHUMER BILL WOULD REDUCE CUTS IN MEDICARE; UNTIL REIMBURSEMENT GROWS, FAYETTEVILLE DOCTOR WON'T TAKE NEW MEDICARE PATIENTS.(Business)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 4, 2002 ;     325 words ......June 5, 2002 A story Tuesday about cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors contained a statement...an agonizing decision. He stopped seeing new Medicare patients because the federal government has cut reimbursements...that he says he can't afford to accept more Medicare patients. If ...

Article: Medicare patients struggle to find doctors
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Medicare patients struggle to find doctors...just saying no to new Medicare patients such as Senal. The trend...forced him to spurn new Medicare patients. "It's a real frustration...Medicare prescription drug bill that's expected to emerge...7% -- don't take new ...

Article: New AMA Survey - About Half of Physicians Will Limit the Number of Medicare Patients They Treat in 2003; Congress Has Narrow Window to Avert Medicare Crisis by March 1.
PR Newswire;  January 23, 2003 ;     430 words ......begin limiting or further limit the number of Medicare patients they treat because of the impending Medicare payment...intend to impose new or additional limits on the Medicare patients they treat. Sixty percent of the physicians report...physicians or surgeons to whom they can refer their ...