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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. Today marks the 46th anniversary of that signing. In recognition of that anniversary, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100929/DNCLOGO) "Since Medicare was signed into law in 1965, generations of American seniors have enjoyed the iron-clad guarantee of quality health care. As a result,...
AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation has named Mary Herman as Deputy Director of Development. Herman, who assumed her new position on July 18, 2011, is a long-time fundraiser and community leader in the Central Texas area and brings years of expertise to the position. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110726/DC41224) Herman will direct the Foundation's fund-raising activities as well as provide guidance in the development of...
BALTIMORE, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- RLTV, the only cable network dedicated to serving the needs of Generation 50+, will air a special episode of Making Medicare Work for You: Boomers, Welcome to Medicare on July 28 at 9 p.m. EDT. The 10,000 boomers who will turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare every day for the next decade shouldn't feel bad if they're a bit confused. Signing up for Medicare means making choices, and for many, the process is complicated. Making Medicare Work for...
COLUMBIA, S.C., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Professional Data Solutions (PDS), a Pennsylvania-based information technology firm that provides systems management to corporations, has awarded a contract to Companion Data Services (CDS) of Columbia, S.C., for data center hosting services. Under terms of the three-year contract, CDS will host applications to support an inter-plan teleprocessing system that PDS manages for major health insurance plans nationwide. The system supports national...
NEW YORK, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Data released today by S&P Indices for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicate that the average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.58% over the 12-months ending May 2011. The annual growth rate for the Composite accelerated from its all-time low of +5.37% posted in April 2011. This is still 3.16 percentage points below the highest rate for the Composite...
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Claims Economy Is Turning Around Again, Can't Answer Questions About Medicare WITH INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT, DWS ONCE AGAIN CLAIMED THE ECONOMY IS TURNING AROUND WASHINGTON, July 20, 2011/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Republican National Committee: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080519/RNCLOGO DWS Claimed Obama Turned The Economy Around. DWS: "He really shouldn't be questioning the President's record, which...
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a forum this week at the Kaiser Family Foundation, several speakers agreed that efforts underway to better integrate Medicare and Medicaid benefits bring great promise but also great risk for the nine million low-income people who rely on both programs to meet their health and long term care needs. According to a new issue brief from the National Senior Citizens Law Center entitled Ensuring Consumer Protection for Dual Eligibles in...
WASHINGTON, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Inspector General's Office (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report last week concluding that 61 percent of power wheelchairs provided to Medicare beneficiaries in the first half of 2007 "were medically unnecessary or had claims that lacked sufficient documentation to determine medical necessity." But their report clearly indicated that medical necessity was actually only questioned on nine percent...
Alliance Approach to Prospective Medicare Payment Recalibration Under New RUGs-IV System Seeks to Protect Quality Patient Care WASHINGTON, July 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In reaching out to Capitol Hill offices this week to continue the education process surrounding its plan to achieve a full correction of the Medicare payment system for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) by FY2013, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care is stressing the need to prospectively recalibrate payment...
WASHINGTON, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A study released yesterday by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services illustrates the pressing need for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to give physicians concrete direction to meet policy and compliance mandates. The report found that more than half of Medicare power wheelchair claims submitted in the first half of 2007 did not meet medical necessity requirements....
