by Associated Press Published: February 7,2012
Tags: appeals court, Health Care, Medicare
A federal appeals court says American seniors who receive Social Security cannot reject their legal right to Medicare benefits in a rare case of someone suing to get out of a government entitlement. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is among the five senior citizens who sued to stop their automatic eligibility for Medicare. But the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 28,2011
Tags: 2020, government, health, Medicaid, Medicare
The nation’s health care tab is on track to hit $4.6 trillion in 2020, accounting for about $1 of every $5 in the economy, government number crunchers estimate in a report released Thursday. How much is that? Including government and private money, health care spending in 2020 will average $13,710 for every man, woman and child, [...] [...]
Remember the debunked death panels? A new Medicare board that Republicans are calling a “rationing panel” could become the next boogeyman in the nation’s hyperbolic health care debate. But don’t look for the Independent Payment Advisory Board to start slashing anytime soon. IPAB doesn’t even exist yet. Although the new health care law authorized the board [...] [...]
Do the American people have the courage and clarity to do what’s needed to get government under control? Let’s face facts. Every penny in a federal budget estimated to hit $3.8 trillion this year — along with a deficit of $1.6 trillion and federal debt held by the public reaching $10.9 trillion — has a special [...] [...]
It’s getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. The new tactic is raising the anxiety level — and risks — for corporate honchos at drug companies, medical device manufacturers, nursing home chains and other major health [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 28,2011
Tags: Add new tag, electronic records, health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare
There’s good and bad news for the health care reforms passed last year (and which Republicans hope to decimate this year). First the good: Thanks to the law, a record amount of money was recovered from fraudulent Medicare claims last year. The Department of Health and Human Services recovered a total of $4 billion last year. Now [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 27,2011
Tags: health care reform, Medicaid, Medicare
Americans don’t want Washington to cut Medicaid, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. While most Americans want to cut the trillion-dollar deficit by cutting spending, they don’t want to cut funding for Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid – the most expensive entitlement programs. The fact that about [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 14,2011
Tags: Child Health Insurance Program Plus, Department of Health and Human Services, Hickenlooper, Medicaid, Medicare
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s new executive team includes the people who will be shaping Colorado’s health care policy for the next four years. Those people will be responsible, in part, for helping create the new health insurance exchanges required by federal law, as well as guiding the state’s efforts at implementing other parts of the health care [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: December 31,2010
Tags: Health Care, Medicare
Colorado received a $13.7 million award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for making changes in its enrollment policies. The changes led to big increases in the past fiscal year in the number of children enrolled in the public health insurance program. Colorado’s Medicaid program saw a 14 percent increase during the fiscal 2010, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 29,2010
Tags: Baby Boomers, Medicare
The first baby boomers will be old enough to qualify for Medicare Jan. 1, and many fear the program’s obituary will be written before their own. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that baby boomers believe by a ratio of 2-to-1 they won’t be able to rely on the giant health insurance plan throughout their retirement. The [...] [...]
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