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 | 11/21/2012 - With all the outcry by politicians and the public over skyrocketing healthcare costs, maybe it's time to take a look at how some doctors are running up patients' bills for unneeded tests. A new study just published in Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication, concludes...
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 | 5/8/2012 - The government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid are wrought with fraud, a fact that was once again made apparent in the latest string of busts carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Reuters, 107 individuals -- many of whom are doctors and nurses -- were recently...
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 | 3/10/2012 - Medicare and Medicaid, the two largest government-run health care programs that cover health services for elderly, disabled, and low-income individuals, cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year just in fraudulent claims. And an ongoing crackdown on such fraud being undertaken by the U.S. Department...
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 | 12/19/2011 - Taxpayer-funded health care spending continues to rise, particularly in the government's Medicare program, which now disburses more than half a trillion dollars every year for 49 million elderly and disabled Americans. But a new report compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
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 | 10/29/2011 - Doctors and hospitals in the United States have a financial incentive to perform surgery on dying seniors because Medicare is guaranteed to pay for it, and most of the procedures fail to improve the patients' lives at all.
Several colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health recently reported...
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 | 10/14/2011 - One of the primary reasons why prescription drug abuse in the US has become so rampant is that milking the government's corrupt Medicare system for a virtually unlimited supply of prescription drugs is relatively easy. The New York Times (NYT) reports that, thanks to lax accountability standards by...
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 | 7/20/2011 - Officials with Medicare say the government health care program will continue paying for drugs even if the Food and Drug Administration revoke their safe-and-effective status.
According to Don McLeod, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the health care programs will continue to...
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 | 5/19/2011 - - Almost every American who has read a newspaper, watched T.V. or signed onto the Internet in the past few years knows that Medicare, one of the government's largest entitlement programs, is in financial dire straits and is heading for insolvency. What you may not know is that Medicare bankruptcy is...
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| 3/15/2011 - In what officials are now claiming was a computer error, the US government's Medicare program illegally spent more than $3 million in 2007 and 2008 on erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs like Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra, according to a recent report issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)....
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| 11/11/2010 - If you've looked at your paycheck stub lately, you may have noticed that a generous portion of your hard-earned wages goes to Medicare. Perhaps you get a warm fuzzy feeling thinking that Grandma is being given the best healthcare in the world, and that, one day, you will too when you need it. But what...
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| 10/30/2010 - When Congress cuts Medicare reimbursements to doctors, doctors may simply respond by ordering treatments for more patients, according to study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and published in the journal Health Affairs.
"Hospitals and doctors will respond to changes in how they are...
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| 5/10/2010 - Medicare issued as much as $92 million in payments between 2000 and 2007 for medical procedures or devices ordered under the names of doctors who had already died, according to a 2008 Senate committee report.
Prescriptions written in the names of deceased doctors are only one of the fraudulent techniques...
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 | 7/9/2008 - Conventional medicine has a brilliant new career strategy for ambitious professionals: Earn money even after you're dead! As revealed in a new congressional investigation, Medicare has paid out 478,500 claims on health services to doctors who died before they performed such services. Say that again?...
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 | 7/2/2008 - A federal judge has awarded a whistleblower $1.6 million for tipping off federal prosecutors to a scheme by pharmaceutical company Cell Therapeutics to illegally promote unapproved uses of the cancer drug Trisenox.
Prosecutors argued against granting whistleblower James Marchese any portion of the...
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 | 3/13/2008 - A federal judge has ruled that three pharmaceutical companies artificially marked up their prices in order to defraud Medicare and encourage doctors to prescribe their drugs over those of competitors.
The decision came in a class-action lawsuit against AstraZeneca, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Johnson...
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 | 12/19/2007 - A federal judge has ruled that three pharmaceutical companies artificially marked up their prices in order to defraud Medicare and encourage doctors to prescribe their drugs over those of competitors.
The decision came in a class-action lawsuit against AstraZeneca, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Johnson...
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 | 1/25/2007 - House Democrats passed a bill January 12 that requires federal healthcare officials to negotiate lower drug prices with drug companies. However, President Bush has said he will veto it immediately.
The Democrats introduced the bill aiming to reverse a non-negotiation clause that President Bush insisted...
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 | 11/17/2006 - On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the government should not negotiate Medicare drug prices, instantly drawing fire from the incoming Democratic Congress and at least one health advocate.
"The idea of the government negotiating drug prices really isn't about the government...
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| 11/14/2006 - This past weekend, the Bush administration stated that it would be strongly opposing a top priority of the Democratic Party -- the authorization of the U.S. government to negotiate with drug companies to ensure lower prices for Medicare beneficiaries.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael...
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 | 11/1/2006 - U.S. pharmaceutical companies could face falling profits if Democrats win the majority in the House of Representatives in the upcoming November 7 elections.
Campaigning Democratic candidates say they will push legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for its 42 million elderly...
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 | 10/18/2006 - The least expensive Medicare drug insurance policies under cost elderly and disabled Americans 44 percent more in 2007, based on recent rate quotes published by the government.
Monthly costs for the cheapest Medicare plans will rise from $9.46 to $13.58 according to information compiled and released...
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 | 10/16/2006 - According to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the leaders and main proponents of the Medicare system misled senior citizens last month when they collectively said that premiums for drug plans would start at the same level in 2007 compared to 2006.
The staff of Rep. Waxman performed an analysis that showed...
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| 9/22/2006 - After a report by J.D. Power and Associates revealed that three-fourths of more than 3,400 Medicare beneficiaries surveyed were satisfied with the new Medicare prescription drug plan that went into effect at the beginning of the year, a report by House Democrats has found that the pharmaceutical industry...
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| 9/8/2006 - A 5.1 percent cut in the Medicare fees of 700,000 doctors of geriatric medicine is on the books for Congress next year, but the American Medical Association has reported these doctors may stop taking seniors as new patients or drop out of the program altogether if the cuts go through.
The 2007 reduction...
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| 8/29/2006 - A recent multimillion-dollar ad campaign that lends support to Republican lawmakers who support the new Medicare prescription drug benefit was partly paid for by the pharmaceutical industry, political officials say.
Though the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it paid for the ads -- which are airing...
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| 7/31/2006 - (News Target) Under Medicare's new Plan D, seniors are maxing out their prescription drug coverage earlier, leaving them to pick up a majority of the costs or go without coverage until Medicare begins to pick up the tab again.
The plan's objectives were to cover all Medicare recipients at some level...
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| 7/11/2006 - A report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that call centers run by private Medicare drug plans were unable to provide accurate and complete information most of the time.
The report -- authored by Reps. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif.; John D. Dingell, D-Mich.; Charles...
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| 7/6/2006 - Staggering variations in how hospitals care for chronically-ill elderly patients indicate serious problems with quality of care and point toward unnecessary spending by Medicare. Lower utilization of acute-care hospitals and physician visits could actually lead to better results for patients and prolong...
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 | 6/15/2006 - Do you want to know what happens when a government that cares nothing about the people gets put in charge of administering a drug benefit program? You get an unmitigated disaster, and that's what we're seeing today with the Medicare prescription drug benefit program. This program, which is just legalized...
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| 7/22/2004 - With the new decision by Medicare to consider obesity a disease, providers of solutions to obesity will no doubt be lining up to offer treatments. But which treatments will Medicare fund? Which treatments really work for weight loss? There's no doubt that the increasingly popular surgical procedure...
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| 7/18/2004 - Medicare has now officially declared obesity to be a disease, opening the floodgates for obesity treatments to be covered by federal and private health insurers. To many overweight patients, it's a welcome change, since they were unable to obtain medical treatment for their obesity unless they also...
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