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Miami-Area Seniors Get ‘White-Glove’ Treatment From Private Plans

November 26, 2013 Morning Briefing

The Miami Herald reports that seniors in South Florida have benefited from the highly lucrative and super competitive world of privately managed Medicare Advantage plans.

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Doctors Overlook Lucrative Procedures When Naming Unwise Treatments

By Jordan Rau April 14, 2014 KFF Health News Original

In the “Choosing Wisely” campaign, medical specialty societies have published lists of procedures that doctors and patients should consider skeptically. But some groups overlooked their own dubious, but profitable procedures.

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Colorado’s Elusive Goal: A Complete, Useful Health Care Price List

By Eric Whitney February 19, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Making health care prices available to the public is difficult and expensive, and Colorado and several other states are in jeopardy of losing funding for their efforts unless Congress intervenes.

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FAQ: What You Need To Know About The New Online Marketplaces

By Julie Appleby and Mary Agnes Carey September 16, 2013 KFF Health News Original

These marketplaces open Oct. 1 and will allow individuals and small businesses to compare insurance coverage.

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Medicare Overpays Advantage Plans Billions Because Of Billing Errors: Report

June 4, 2014 Morning Briefing

An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity examines how use of a “risk score” that is supposed to help protect the private plans if they have an excess of sicker beneficiaries may have been mishandled.

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Patient Coordination Would Get Boost If Medicare Changes How It Pays Docs

By Tara Kulash, St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 4, 2014 KFF Health News Original

If Congress finally overhauls the way Medicare pays doctors, experts say patients would see new emphasis on coordinated care and preventive services.

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Sources and Methodology: A Guide To Medicare’s Readmissions Data And KHN’s Analysis

By Jordan Rau August 2, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News’ data on hospital readmissions penalties comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO: Medicare Advantage Benefit Cuts Are ‘The New Frontier’

November 6, 2013 Morning Briefing

The Tampa Bay Times looks at cuts to the provider networks in Medicare Advantage plans marketed by AARP and whether they indicate more changes are coming for the popular insurance plans for seniors.

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UnitedHealthcare Cuts Doctors From Medicare Advantage Plans

October 28, 2013 Morning Briefing

UnitedHealthcare is dropping 10 to 15 percent of its doctors from Medicare Advantage plans around the nation, a move that will force some seniors to find new doctors or change plans.

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Medicare Looks To Narrow Discrepancy On What It Spends In Different Parts Of U.S.

December 2, 2013 Morning Briefing

Medicare wants to narrow the discrepancy on what it spends on some health services in different parts of the country. In the meantime, UnitedHealthcare is dropping hundreds of doctors from its Medicare Advantage plans and the Government Accountability Office says Medicare doesn’t know how well its contractors’ anti-fraud efforts are working.

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FAQ: How Will The Individual Mandate Work?

By Alvin Tran September 3, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The controversial health law provision that requires most individuals to get insurance is still not well understood.

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Drugmaker Pushes New Drug Over Cheaper Equivalent At Medicare’s Expense

December 9, 2013 Morning Briefing

The Washington Post explores the public impact of two equivalent drugs that both prevent blindness but which have very different prices. Other media report on the federal court decision in Connecticut that temporarily blocks UnitedHealthcare from dropping more than 2,000 doctors from its Medicare Advantage network in that state.

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Hospitals May Soon Be Reaching For The Stars

By Jordan Rau July 18, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Medicare is considering assigning stars or other symbols to hospitals so that patients can compare quality more easily. Hospital groups are wary.

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Notices About Medicare Advantage Changes Coming

September 27, 2013 Morning Briefing

Medicare Advantage plans are informing seniors of changes to their plans by mail this week. Meanwhile, KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey talks about what Obamacare changes older Americans can expect.

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Tough Road for States Seeking Customized Medicaid Expansion

By Christine Vestal, Stateline March 4, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Each of the states currently weighing expansion of Medicaid has a different idea of what it would look like.

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UnitedHealth Says Lower Medicare Advantage Payments Forced Smaller Profit

October 18, 2013 Morning Briefing

UnitedHealth saw a small increase in profit for the quarter in its earnings statement released Thursday, news that forced the insurer’s shares lower. The Minnetonka, Minn., based insurer said lower government payments from Medicare Advantage plans were one culprit of the lower earnings.

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Slowdown In Medicare Spending Extends Trust Fund

By Mary Agnes Carey May 31, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Slower growth in spending is helping extend the life of Medicare’s hospital trust fund to 2026, two years beyond last year’s estimate, officials said Friday. They also reported, however, that Social Security’s disability trust fund, which pays monthly benefits to disabled workers and their families, is expected to be exhausted by 2016.  Social Security will begin to […]

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Viewpoints: Medicare’s ‘Doctor Payment Problem’; A ‘Wasted Advantage’; ‘Puzzling’ Rand Numbers

April 10, 2014 Morning Briefing

A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.

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Despite Win, UnitedHealth Criticizes Medicare Rates, Eyes Pruning Business

By Jay Hancock April 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

If the Obama administration expected the biggest health insurance company to give thanks for this month’s decision to reverse cuts to private Medicare plans, it was wrong. UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley said Thursday that Medicare Advantage rates are still far too low and that the company may shrink its business of managing care for […]

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Viewpoints: Obamacare Has Resisted Death Throes Before; Website Success Stories From 3 Governors; Health Law Taking A Toll On Choice Of Doctors In Medicare Advantage

November 18, 2013 Morning Briefing

A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.

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