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New Health Policy Brief: Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program

(By -Lucy Larner, healthaffairs.org) A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) addresses Medicare’s

(By - Bob Moos, www.dentonrc.com) Medicare has just begun publishing star ratings for home health care agencies to help consumers

(Source - clermontsun.com) Just like Medicare – which celebrated its 50th Anniversary last week – prescription drugs have helped Americans

(By - Debra McCurdy, Reed Smith) Today CMS published its final rule updating payment policies and rates for the Medicare

(By - Patrick M. O’Connell, Chicago Tribune) Doctors and nurses made visit after visit to the elderly man’s home, even

(By - Northeast Times Staff, boyle.house.gov) Congressman Brendan Boyle joined a bipartisan coalition on July 28 to introduce the Medicare

(By - Linda Qiu, www.politifact.com) Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee accused “illegals, prostitutes, pimps, (and) drug dealers” of freeloading off

(By - Diane Wagner, via www.northwestgeorgianews.com) Floyd County’s two hospitals are among the 67 percent in Georgia that will pay

(Source - www.lexology.com) On June 1, 2015, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed rule

(By - Adam Smeltz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Medicine has changed a lot since the 1960s, but Medicare still has in place