December 2016 – Page 3 – medicarereport.org

For those individuals who are new to Medicare, you need to know the difference between a Welcome to Medicare doctor

Medicare Part D: Ten Years and Going Strong

More than 40 million people having been relying on Medicare Part D program to access their needed prescriptions for the

(By Casey Ross for STAT) The statistics are encouraging: In the half a year since the state expanded access to

The attached article outlines five common things Medicare does not pay for but are needed by seniors. Read article here… Notice:

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(By Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman, and Marsha Gold for Kaiser Family Foundation) With nearly one-third of all Medicare

(By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review) Here are the states with the most for-profit community hospitals as of 2015,

(By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review) Here are the states with the most nonprofit community hospitals as of 2015,

(By Rebecca Smith, Side Effects Public Media published by Kaiser Health News) Caroline Brown, a sophomore at the University of

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) The federal government will cut 769 hospitals’ Medicare payments in fiscal year 2017