Twelve hospitals, in four states, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he illegally reduced the number of residents they could claim per year under a Medicare program for hospitals to train medical residents.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the U.S. government against a company that provided clinical testing services for nursing home residents, finding that the company obtained millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements for miles their technicians did not actually travel.
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Fighting to seal a historic health care fraud conviction Friday, government lawyers reminded the 11th Circuit that, in his heyday as an eye doctor, Salomon Melgen had billed Medicare more than 90 times for diagnostic testing on a patient’s prosthetic eye.
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A government watchdog plans to launch a nationwide probe into how telemarketers may be getting hold of seniors’ personal Medicare information, a red flag for potential fraud.
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President Donald Trump released his final budget before the 2020 election on Monday, calling for cuts to public programs like Medicaid while boosting defense spending.
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Confronted with the threat of trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, President Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that rehashes previously rejected spending cuts while leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.
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Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
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Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups and program experts.
Read moreAbout two weeks after announcing her plan to provide Medicare for All without raising middle-class taxes, Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren explained Friday how she intends to launch that new health care system.
Read moreA federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas.
Read moreUnveiling her much-anticipated Medicare for All proposal on Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren called health care a human right and promised she would not raise taxes on the middle class by even a penny to enact the plan.
Read moreNational Public Radio sued the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in federal court for records on antipsychotic drug use and the names of corporate nursing home chains that the CMS has identified as using antipsychotic medication at high rates at some 1,500 nursing homes.
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A large majority of Americans support the creation of a national health insurance plan, according to a new poll.
Read moreHealth and Human Services touted two Medicare law changes proposed Wednesday by the Trump administration, saying they will enable specialty clinicians to share data with a patient’s primary care physician, coordinating better care.
Read morePresident Donald Trump visited the country’s largest retirement community on Thursday to announce new Medicare proposals, one of his first public appearances since the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry.
Read moreThe Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sued the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in federal court for information on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation documentation, used to gauge the accuracy of Medicare Advantage billing.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders released a new plan Tuesday to tax the “extreme wealth” of the top 0.1% of U.S. households, which he says would help pay for his flagship Medicare for All health care proposal.
Read moreVacating a rule and remanding, a federal judge refused to dismiss the American Hospital Association’s claim that because Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar thought that “certain clinic-visit services … (were) too high,” he unfairly reduced the rates in 2018.
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A draft plan from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was leaked Tuesday would overhaul how Medicare pays for prescription drugs by negotiating prices for costly medicines, curbing annual price hikes, and limiting what seniors pay out of their own pockets.
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