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Medicare 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...
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Bush 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 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 moreAmounts Spouses of Medicaid Recipients May Keep in 2008 Are Released
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the 2008 federal guidelines for how much money the s...
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's Limited Nursing Home Coverage
Many people believe that Medicare covers nursing home stays. In fact Medicare's coverage of nursing home care is quite limited. Medicare covers ...
Read moreCMS Names Thousands of Nursing Homes With High Bedsore, Restraint Rates
For the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has publicly rel...
Read moreFeds Finally Release Complete List of Deficient Nursing Homes
The Bush administration's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the complete list of U.S. nursing homes that have failed t...
Read moreFederal Nursing Home Site Now Notes Troubled Facilities
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that its Web site comparing nursing homes will now identify facilities ...
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