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Category: Medicare

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Medicare

Need help selecting a Medicare plan?

November 5, 2019

Medicare Open Enrollment is your chance to compare 2020 plans and choose what’s best for you. A mobile-friendly Plan Finder can help you compare plans.

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Medicare

Many on Medicare with serious illnesses struggle to pay medical bills

November 5, 2019

“More than one-third of seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries said they had used up all or most of their savings to pay for their health care”

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Medicare

Medicare open enrollment for 2020 starts Oct. 15

October 10, 2019

The Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) program, part of the Office of the Insurance Commissioner, can help with choices you may need to make.

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Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney Transplant

July 17, 2019

Medicare has covered transplant patients who had end-stage renal disease. But coverage ends after 36 months for those younger than 65.

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Medicare

Medicare Advantage Overbills Taxpayers By Billions

July 16, 2019

Health insurers that treat millions of seniors have overcharged Medicare by nearly $30 billion the past three years alone.

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Medicare

How to find a doctor using Medicare’s “Physician Compare” Tool – Video

June 19, 2019

Physician Compare helps you find and compare physicians and other clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

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Hospitals, Medicare

Can Robin Hood Plan Rescue Of Rural Hospitals?

June 3, 2019

The proposal would increase Medicare payments to mostly rural hospitals in the lowest 25th percentile and decrease the payments to hospitals in the highest 75th.

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Hospitals, Medicare

Hospitals Chafe Under New Payment Rule For Off-Campus Clinics

April 26, 2019

Medicare has opted to pay hospitals with outpatient facilities that are “off campus” a lower rate, equivalent to what it pays independent doctors for visits.

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Health Insurance, Medicare

Consumers Rejected Drug Plan That Mirrors Trump Administration Proposal

April 9, 2019

Everyone, however, will see premiums go up. It’s unclear yet how much.

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Drugs, Health Policy, Medicare

Big Pharma Gave Money To Patient Advocacy Groups Opposing Medicare Changes

March 4, 2019

By Sydney Lupkin and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News, and Victoria Knight. Dozens of patient advocacy groups, like the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, recently appeared in national advertisements objecting to a…

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Hospitals, Medicare

Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals, Citing Patient Safety Incidents

March 1, 2019

By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show. The number is the highest since the federal government five years…

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Medicare

New app shows what Medicare covers

January 29, 2019

The new app lets people with Original Medicare, caregivers and others quickly see if Medicare covers a specific medical item or service.

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Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare

Most Americans favor Medicare-for-All, poll

January 23, 2019

Seventy-four percent of those polled, including nearly half of Republicans (47%), favor a national government plan like Medicare that is open to anyone.

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Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare

Inslee proposes public option though health exchange

January 8, 2019

Consumers will have lower deductibles, improved access, evidenced-based services, and access to transparent, predictable cost-sharing, Inslee says

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Health Insurance, Medicare, Seniors

Health insurance worries plague Americans in years before Medicare

January 3, 2019

Forty-five percent say they have little or no confidence that they’ll be able to afford the cost of health coverage once they retire.

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