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Medicare Help Line Is Frequently Unhelpful, Study Finds
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that those answering calls to Medicare's toll-free hotline a...
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New Medicare Drug Benefit Will Help Some More Than Others
A new report on the effects of the upcoming Medicare drug benefit predicts that the low-income Medicare population w...
Read moreMedicare Adds Drug Price Comparison Tool
Visitors to the Medicare Web site can now compare prices for similar drugs used to treat common diseases such as hig...
Read moreMedicare May Begin Covering Obesity Treatments
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will remove language from Medicare's coverage manua...
Read moreMedicare's Hospice Benefit: Little Known, Little Used
Coping with a terminal illness can be a difficult enough experience without having to worry about pain management, ...
Read moreLawmakers File Suit to Get Medicare Law's Real Cost Figures
Nineteen Democratic members of the House Committee on Government Reform have filed a lawsuit in federal court to for...
Read moreBush Medicare Videos Violate Federal Law, Agency Rules
The General Accounting Office (GAO), an investigative arm of Congress, has determined that the Bush administration v...
Read moreMedicare to Cover PET Scans to Diagnose Alzheimer's
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare plans to cover positron emission to...
Read moreHurricane Katrina Now Affecting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security Legislation
Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), says that $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid requested by the Bush admini...
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