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Medicare

The program engages the brain’s natural plasticity (the brain’s ability to rewire itself) to improve basic brain function.

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Congress didn’t intend the SGR to produce large savings.

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Despite feelings of loyalty, more seniors remain active consumers, staying on the lookout for insurance that suits them better.

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America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), last week, released a study that supports the position often taken in this blog. That is that innovations that lead to better and lower cost medical care come from private sector initiatives.
AHIP released a study showing that Medicare Advantage enrollees spent fewer days in a hospital, were subject to fewer [...]

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Medicare Good to Wheelchair Suppliers.

by Martin Trussell on September 8, 2009

in Health, Healthcare Reform, politics

A report out from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in August says that Medicare paid four times the average amount paid by suppliers for standard power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, and twice the amount paid for complex rehabilitation wheelchairs. The report also states that Medicare spending on power wheelchairs rose 350% [...]

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