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“We are doing everything possible to help our members transition to a new Blue Cross product or a new product that fits their health care needs,” he said. “We are working with our agent community and provider partners and own Customer Service teams to ...
Millions of seniors will soon be notified that Medicare premiums for physicians' services are rising and likely to consume most of the cost-of-living adjustment they'll receive next year from Social Security. Higher 2018 premiums for Medicare Part B ...
... storefronts such as CVS and Walgreens to big-box retailers such as Walmart, they'll favor an easy-to-navigate website to an online superstore. Even when faced with lower prices, they're likely to stick to familiar brands with excellent customer ...
A former US Secretary of Health and Human Services testified in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez Tuesday, describing a meeting at which the New Jersey Democrat pushed her and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resolve a Medicare-billing ...
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina announced Monday it will sell Medicare Advantage plans in 23 counties, including Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester, during open enrollment this fall. Medicare Advantage plans cover extra benefits that ...
AnMed Health in Anderson has agreed to pay more than $7 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false Medicare claims, the U.S Attorney's Office said Wednesday. The settlement resolves allegations that AnMed Health knowingly disregarded the ...
Medicare won't pay for patients at one of West Virginia's two state-run psychiatric hospitals as of Thursday, according to a termination notice from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The notice states that, “The Centers for Medicare ...
Podiatrist John J. Cauthon, 51, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was convicted Wednesday by a federal jury of four counts of health care fraud. The charges involved a 16-month scheme to defraud Medicare and other health care benefit programs, announced Donald ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released 2018 draft reimbursement rates for clinical lab tests and there are “few winners,” according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Mark Massaro. The rates, released last week under the Protecting Access ...
Administrative costs are the expenses incurred by medical insurers that are not strictly medical, such as marketing, Customer Service, billing, claims review, quality assurance, information technology and profits. Is the gap between private and public ...
We recently received some helpful information from the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP) about new Medicare cards that will begin to be mailed in the spring. We wanted to share this information so that you are aware and prepared.
This image provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows what the new Medicare cards will look like. The cards are getting a makeover to fight identity theft. No more Social Security numbers will be placed on the card. Next April ...
Medicare has signaled it will rubber-stamp almost every 2018 payment proposal made by the American Medical Association's clandestine panel of doctors — raising the ire of numerous advocacy groups and primary-care doctors, who believe the federal ...
This tool also provides a five-star rating system that evaluates each plan based on past Customer Service records, and suggests generics or older brand name drugs that can reduce your costs. When you're comparing drug plans, look at the “estimated ...
New Medicare cards — the ones that won't make it easy for ID thieves to steal your Social Security number — will find their way into wallets next year. But we're already hearing warnings about scams that are bubbling up before the big changeover.
If you're not sure if the call is legitimate, experts suggest that you hang up and call the agency back on the Customer Service line, which is 800-633-4227 for Medicare and 800-772-1213 for Social Security. Hang up if someone tells you there's a fee of ...
Senate Republicans' failure to enact a health reform bill has created a big policy vacuum, and liberals in Congress and elsewhere are eager to fill it. Their solution: Move to a “single-payer system.” That anodyne term actually means a government ...
Despite major improvements made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), our health care system remains in crisis. Today, we have the most expensive, inefficient, and bureaucratic health care system in the world. We spend almost $10,000 per capita each year ...
MANCHESTER >> Following the failure of the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act, small groups of lawmakers have been working to fix the problems that exist and proposing solutions. U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney said the legislative proposal he's ...
The MUSC Board of Trustees, led by Chairman Dr. Don Johnson, meets on campus roughly six times a year. File/Wade Spees/Staff. Wade Spees. Medical University Hospital has re-applied for Medicare approval for its heart transplant program about 6 ...
Birdie Reed, right, joins other protesters organized by California Alliance for Retired Americans as they urge U.S. Rep.Dana Rohrabacher to vote against any cuts in Medicare and Social Security outside his office in Huntington Beach, California, on ...
WASHINGTON — With health care reform to be looked at again by a U.S. Senate committee next month, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., is proposing letting younger Americans buy into Medicare coverage now limited to older people. Stabenow today ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says the average monthly premium for Medicare prescription drug coverage is expected to go down in 2018, the first time that's happened in five years. Medicare announced Wednesday that next year's ...
Anthem is facing a privacy breach involving 18,580 Medicare beneficiaries after a vendor employee copied company files to his personal email last summer. About 60 of the affected Medicare enrollees live in Florida, according to an Anthem spokesman.
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida health care administrator accepted bribes in exchange for helping a nursing home owner accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme keep his license, federal prosecutors said. Bertha Blanco, 66, faces ...
Philip Esformes is a fabulously rich businessman who once made more than $10 million in a single year from his network of Miami-Dade nursing and assisted living facilities. He also owns two homes next door to each other on exclusive North Bay Road in ...
This Thursday and Friday have scored a place in the health-care history books, thanks to the U.S. Senate's middle-of-the-night vote rejecting a bill that would have repealed part of a landmark achievement of the Obama presidency, the Affordable Care Act.
Trust scammers to try to take advantage of a good thing. Now fraudsters are calling Medicare recipients to tell them falsely they'll need to pay for their new Medicare card, one that won't have their Social Security number on the front. And they're ...
The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., would also pave the way for overhauling the U.S. tax code this fall, and would pair that effort with cuts to benefit programs such as food stamps. File. Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print ...
VIRGINIA SENIORS take note: Some lawmakers in Washington are plotting drastic changes to Medicare Part D, a popular and successful federal program that helps seniors and the disabled afford prescription medications. If these members of Congress get ...
Health care reform and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act appear to be a failing effort. Even if Republicans succeed in passing a bill, the likely outcome appears to be chaos. We will be left with a shaky insurance market that will be ...
Two Austin psychologists and at least one Houston doctor were among 115 doctors, nurses and other practitioners who were charged as part of a nationwide crackdown on medical fraud that bilked the federal government out of $1.3 billion, Justice ...
The Justice Department charged more than 400 people across the country in a major crackdown on health care fraud, officials said Thursday. The accused individuals cost the federal government $1.3 billion in false Medicare and Medicaid billings ...
“Discussion of single payer right now is irrelevant at best and at worst a serious distraction from the fight to save Obamacare,” Matt Bennett, co-founder of the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, told USA Today. “All Democratic energy has to be ...
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Anyone who reads this column regularly knows that phones call asking for personal information are an immediate red flag of a scam. But what about when the caller knows some, or even a lot, of your personal information already? And what if they're ...
High-income retirees socked with premium surcharges for Medicare Part B and Part D may have to pony up even more in 2018. The income thresholds for the highest surcharge tiers drop next year, hitting more beneficiaries with higher premiums.
In presenting President Donald Trump's first budget to the House Budget Committee last week, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that it “keeps the president's promise to balance the budget within the next decade and reduce our ...
What are the plans' quality ratings, such as for Customer Service? You'll discover that many plans place drugs into different tiers. The higher the tier, the greater your share of the cost will usually be. If you find that a prescription of yours is in ...
President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2018 is being condemned, right and left, for the cuts it imposes on various federal programs. Too little attention is being paid to the necessary economizing the Trump budget avoids — specifically ...
The corporate entities related to Freedom Health which were part of the settlement include: Optimum HealthCare Inc., America's 1st Choice Holdings of Florida LLC, Liberty Acquisition Group LLC, Health Management Services of USA LLC, Global TPA LLC, ...
Older Americans may be in for a rough ride if the changes Washington politicians are considering come to pass. Because good, explanatory journalism is in short supply and TV shouting matches don't tell you much, I decided to use this space to discuss ...
President Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2018 is being condemned, right and left, for the cuts it imposes on various federal programs. Too little attention is being paid to the necessary economizing the Trump budget avoids — specifically, with ...
It's been years since Social Security numbers have appeared on drivers licenses or private health insurance cards, yet the government still uses these nine sensitive digits as the main identifier for the nation's nearly 58 million Medicare recipients ...
Officials said Tuesday the government is on track to meet a 2019 deadline for replacing Social Security numbers on Medicare cards with randomly generated digits and letters to protect seniors against identity theft. Planning for the massive transition ...
What are the plans' quality ratings, such as for Customer Service? You'll discover that many plans place drugs into different “tiers.” The higher the tier, the greater your share of the cost will usually be. If you find that a prescription of yours is ...
In January 2011, the oldest post-World War II baby boomers began turning 65; since then, roughly 10,000 boomers have celebrated their 65 birthday every day. By the time the last of this generation approaches retirement age in 2029, 18 percent of the ...
I have a perfect and simple solution to replacing the Affordable Care Act: Convert it to Medicare and keep expanded Medicaid. We tried the public-private partnership via the ACA – first proposed by Republicans, most notably by Mitt Romney when he was ...
Daniel Island resident Samuel Young has been named the medical director of First Choice VIP Care Plus, a Medicare-Medicaid plan for individuals who are dually-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid offered by Select Health of South Carolina. Board ...
Monday — the last day of testimony in the Palm Beach County ophthalmologist's nearly two-month trial — was no exception. The difference was that the big dollar amounts announced in U.S. District Court had nothing to do with the earnings or spending ...
