Tag: Medicare

What to do About HealthCare Spending: Eat-Your-Spinach Budget Reforms

Democrats seem to have more “street smarts” than Republicans when it comes…

JohnCGoodman JohnCGoodman

Using Medicare Data to Rate Physician Quality

Last week, the federal government announced that it would allow Medicare claims…

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CMS (Finally) Makes Claim Data Public

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Nursing Homes Send More Medicaid to Hospitals

A new study shows that individuals enrolled in Medicaid are 27 percent…

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Pay-for-Performance Attacks Hospitals – Shake Down or Fair Play

This blog has tried to support the virtue of personal responsibility. If…

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Medicare Now Provides Coverage for Obesity Treatment and Prevention

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Obama Names New Nominee for CMS Head in ’12

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Ripping Off Medicare

If this were a novel, it would require too much suspension of…

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Time for Higher Income Seniors to Pay More for Medicare

I’m pleased to learn that the super committee is seriously contemplating having…

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Medicare Has Lower Than Expected Premium Increases

As the November 23 deadline for the Super Committee fast approaches, the…

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