Nov. 6An independent hearing judge today ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan only should raise its supplemental Medicare rates by 3.8%, not the 36.7% it had sought.The final rate hike will be determined by Ken Ross, the state’s insurance commissioner.Ross has until Dec. 6 to make the final decision, unless appeals are filed. [...]
To: STATE EDITORSContact: David Irwin of AARP, +1-208-855-4004, cell: +1-208-850-4502Legislation Will Help Hundreds of Thousands of Idahoans Struggling with High Rx Costs, Medicare Gaps & Soaring Insurance PremiumsBOISE, Idaho, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ As the debate over health care reform reaches a fevered pitch and the House readies to vote on critical health care reform [...]
Legislation Will Help Hundreds of Thousands of Idahoans Struggling with High Rx Costs, Medicare Gaps & Soaring Insurance Premiums
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ As the debate over health care reform reaches a fevered pitch and the House readies to vote on critical health care reform legislation in the coming days – AARP is [...]
Florida is the First State to Offer Personal Health Records for Medicaid Recipients TALLAHASSEE, Fla.(BUSINESS WIRE) Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) has previewed the first phase of [...]
Nov. 6The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has identified that North Carolina has more than 80,000 Medicare recipients who potentially qualify for cost-savings programs but have not enrolled.The Relay for Extra Help campaign is a statewide enrollment campaign for Medicare recipients that helps pay for Medicare prescription drug coverage and medicines or the Medicare [...]
Nov. 6JACKSON A Lee County resident is suing Medicaid Executive Director Bob Robinson for comments he made regarding Attorney General Jim Hood.In a September hearing of the Legislative Budget Committee, Robinson accused Hood of not prosecuting a case of Medicaid fraud. Robinson’s accusations were further investigated in a Thursday hearing of the Legislative Budget [...]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ With his proposed health care reform plan, President Barack Obama has set his sights on cutting name-brand prescription drug costs by 50 percent for Medicare patients who fall into the "Part D" coverage gap, universally known as the "donut hole." Plan advocates rave about the potential cost-cutting and feel [...]
Nov. 5EL PASO A chain of clinics and a kidney specialist defrauded Medicare by having unlicensed employees pose as doctors for dialysis treatments, according to a whistleblower lawsuit that moved closer to trial Wednesday.But lawyers for the clinics said there was no fraud and no patient complained.Rebecca Gonzalez, a former secretary for an El [...]
Nov. 5CorrectionThere were almost 14,000 signatures to a petition recommending single-paying health care reform that was delivered to U.S. Rep. Baron Hill’s Bloomington office Wednesday. This story referred to "nearly 14,000 petition signature sheets" turned in by the Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan group, but that wasn’t meant to imply there were multiple signatures [...]
CINCINNATI(BUSINESS WIRE) American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Company (AESLIC?), a member of the Great American Insurance Group, announced the launch of an Errors and Omissions (E&O?) Liability Insurance product for Medicare Statutory Compliance. [...]
