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Medicare seminar to be held at Sanford
An informational seminar about Medicare basics will be offered May 20 at 10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. in the conference rooms of the Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center. The presentation will include: how Medicare works, an introduction to Sanford Health Plan,...Tags: Medicare, Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines
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Now, it's Gov. Scott's turn to show leadership on the budget
South Florida survived the Florida Legislature. Up next is Gov. Rick Scott who can turn a bill into law and a lawmaker's budget request into reality — or not. Over the next two weeks, the governor will either approve, or kill, a number of...Tags: Florida State University, Medicaid, Budgets and Budgeting, Broward County, Laws
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: Medicare, U.S. Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Parties and Movements
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Peninsula hospital charges vary widely; Medicare releases numbers on 3,000 hospitals
On Wednesday, the CMS released FY 2011 numbers regarding what hospitals around the country charge for the 100 most common procedures. Charges varied wildly even within the same geographic region - and somewhat between hospitals under the same ownership....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance, Medicare, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Heart Failure
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Douglas C. Lyons: State will go on break next year as politics trumps policy
Okay. State lawmakers obviously dropped the ball when it came to expanding health care by failing to take federal funding for Medicaid. Too close to Obamacare, a majority of Republicans in the Florida Legislature felt as they stood tall on partisan...Tags: Medicaid, Regional Authority, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, National Rifle Association of America, Florida Legislature
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Knock yourselves out, Senators
If a good plan for relieving Illinois' pension crisis has momentum, why not offer an inferior proposal that wouldn't do as much good? To that end, Senate President John Cullerton on Monday unveiled another insufficient pension reform bill, this one with...
Tags: Personal Income, Daniel Biss, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Michael Madigan
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Florida prepares for massive insurance signup
WASHINGTON – Facing the next big health-care challenge in Florida, Uncle Sam plans to enlist hundreds of consumer "navigators" over the next several months to help enroll up to 3.5 million uninsured state residents by January, when everyone is...Tags: Tampa, Career and Workplace, Medicaid, Unemployment Benefits, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Budget priorities taking shape in Harrisburg
HARRISBURG — Choice and convenience. They are two words Gov. Tom Corbett has used often since February. He says them when talking about his budget proposal to expand beer sales and sell the state-owned liquor store system to fund a four-year grant...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Joseph B. Scarnati, Medicaid, Budgets and Budgeting, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Illinois hospital prices vary widely, Medicare data show
Tribune staff reportHospitals in Illinois charged vastly different amounts of money for the same procedure -- with some charging seven or eight times more than another -- according to data released by the government Wednesday. The discrepancies are detailed in a report from...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of Chicago, Health Insurance, Medicare, Barack Obama
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Tylenol (drug), Medicare, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Aetna Inc., Insurance
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Hospital charges vary widely across region, nation
Making hospital charges more transparent, the federal government this week released data showing what medical centers across the country charge for treating 100 of the most common reasons patients get admitted. The charges vary dramatically —...
Tags: COPD, Diseases and Illnesses, Medicare, Orlando, Ocoee
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Medicaid expansion good for Maryland
Thank you for your recent article on a study of Medicaid the New England Journal of Medicine that addressed the role of Medicaid in promoting mental health and protecting families from financial ruin ("Study: Medicaid has mixed record in improving health,...
Tags: Health Insurance, Medical Research, Medicaid, Mental Health
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