Beneficiaries

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Related Articles Association Between Maintenance of Certification Examination Scores and Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries. Arch Intern Med. 2008 Jul 14;168(13):1396-1403 Authors: Holmboe ES, Wang Y, Meehan TP, Tate JP, Ho SY, Starkey KS, Lipner RS BACKGROUND: The relationship between physicians' cognitive skill and the delivery of evidence-based processes of care is not well characterized.Therefore, we set out to determine associations between general internists' performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine maintenance of certification examination and the receipt of important processes of care by Medicare patients. METHODS: Physicians were grouped into quartiles based on their performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine examination. Hierarchical generalized linear models examined associations between examination scores and the receipt of processes of care by Medicare patients. The main outcome measures were the associations between diabetes care, using a composite measure of hemoglobin A(1c), and lipid testing and retinal screening, mammography, and lipid testing in patients with cardiovascular disease and the physician's performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine examination, adjusted for the number of Medicare patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease in a physician's practice panel; frequency of visits; patient comorbidity, age, and ethnicity; and physician training history and type ...

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Press Release Normal Version WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC), an alliance of the nation's 11 leading home oxygen therapy providers and manufacturers representing nearly one half of ...

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WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 'The National Medical Association congratulates Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and the entire United States Congress for such a resounding vote for the health of America's ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 14 days ago
Related Articles Disenrollment From Medicare Managed Care Among Beneficiaries With and Without a Cancer Diagnosis. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Jul 8; Authors: Elkin EB, Ishill N, Riley GF, Bach PB, Gonen M, Begg CB, Schrag D Background Medicare managed care may offer enrollees lower out-of-pocket costs and provide benefits that are not available in the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program. However, managed care plans may also restrict provider choice in an effort to control costs. We compared rates of voluntary disenrollment from Medicare managed care to traditional fee-for-service Medicare among Medicare managed care enrollees with and without a cancer diagnosis. Methods We identified Medicare managed care enrollees aged 65 years or older who were diagnosed with a first primary breast (n = 28 331), colorectal (n = 26 494), prostate (n = 29 046), or lung (n = 31 243) cancer from January 1, 1995, through December 31, 2002, in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer registry records linked with Medicare enrollment files. Cancer patients were pair-matched to cancer-free enrollees by age, sex, race, and geographic location. We estimated rates of voluntary disenrollment to fee-for-service Medicare in the 2 years after each cancer patient's diagnosis, adjusted for plan characteristics and Medicare managed care penetration, by use of Cox proportional hazards regression. Results In the 2 years after diagnosis, cancer pa ...

Source: www.prweb.com --- 22 days ago
July 1, 2008 marked the anticipated implementation of Medicare's Competitive Bidding Program, affecting the medical supply needs of thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries across 10 Metropolitan Areas throughout the country. As a Contract Supplier selected to provide Mail-order Diabetes Testing Supplies to Medicare Beneficiaries, Home Care Delivered offers customers a wide selection of products, hassle-free ordering, insurance verification, claims processing, and no-charge delivery. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1072704.htm ...

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Source: www.stuff.co.nz --- 19 days ago
The auditor-general is investigating Work and Income's handling of sickness and invalid Beneficiaries, amid MPs' concerns that the growing caseload is being mismanaged. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 7 days ago
The new Medicare law that passed on Tuesday not only delays for 18 months a 10.6% reduction to physician fees, it also contains provisions that directly affect Beneficiaries, the Wall Street Journal reports. The law reduces the copayment for mental health services from 50% to 20%, which is consistent with copays for other health services. It will be phased in through 2014. ...

Source: www.charlotte.com --- 19 days ago
Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer. “He was obsessed with dotting every ‘i' and crossing every ‘t',” Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger recalled about her husband, who died in 2001 at age 30. But Spherion Corp., the temporary staffing company where Amschwand worked, told Amschwand-Bellinger she would not receive any of the $426,000 in benefits she believed she was due. When she went to court, Spherion succeeded in getting her lawsuit thrown out. The Supreme Court on June 27 refused to review the case. Amschwand-Bellinger received a refund of the few thousand dollars in insurance premiums she and her husband dutifully had paid. The total, she said, would not cover the costs of his funeral. The story has played out often under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Designed to protect employee benefits, the law has been used by employers as a shield against suits. Federal appeals courts, interpreting Supreme Court decisions dating to 1993, consistently have said companies that offer health, life and retirement benefits under ERISA cannot be sued for large amounts of money, or damages. Instead, they can be sued only for typically smaller sums such as Amschwand's insurance premiums. Several federal judges have bemoaned the unfairness even as they have felt constrained to rule in favor of employers. “The facts … ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 1 day ago
The Tennessean in a two-part series examined how physicians in the state are limiting the number of new Medicare Beneficiaries they will treat and how some are charging concierge fees to accept new Beneficiaries.In the first part of the series, the ...

Source: www.aarp.org --- 22 days ago
The Supreme Court is looking at when financial stakeholders in insurance plans also serve as claims decision-makers. AARP argues that the conflict of interest between what’s good for the plan’s bottom line and what’s fair to claimants requires courts to set up procedures to protect plan participants and Beneficiaries. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 7 days ago
More than 11,000 West Virginia Medicaid Beneficiaries have enrolled in the new "enhanced" benefits program, Mountain Health Choices, which requires residents to sign personal responsibility pledges stating that they will take steps to improve their health, the Charleston Gazette reports. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 20 days ago
The UN World Food Programme is rapidly expanding operations in Haiti, reaching more hungry people thanks to a US$23 million allocation from funds raised through the organisation's high food price appeal. WFP is currently assisting more than 800,000 people in Haiti, including 40,000 vulnerable families - most of them headed by females - in urban areas. ...

Source: www.phillyburbs.com --- 53 days ago
LOWER MAKEFIELD - The VFW post in Bristol Township helps fund special training for Lower Bucks' growing pack of police dogs. ...

Source: bymnews.com --- 9 days ago
Young people from Birmingham, Bristol and Wales spent four days sailing with The Ellen MacArthur Trust last week. Trust Patron Ellen MacArthur jumped onboard for a sail and joined everyone for a BBQ at the Island Sailing Club. ... ...

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Christopher Caldwell is appalled by the fact that Leona Helmsley left her entire $5bn+ estate to dogs : A vast amount of the productive energy of future generations has been pre-allocated to dogs on the say-so of one of the most disreputable public figures of postwar America. Maybe people born a quarter of a century from now will think this was a terrific idea. But if starvation and suffering are not abolished in the interim, they are just as likely to view Helmsley's will as we view the emperor Caligula's making a consul of his horse. They may think, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, that a large fortune is never more innocently employed than when it is being blown at the gambling tables by some feckless heir. Would it be great if all wills were dedicated solely to the abolition of starvation and suffering? Yes - but they're not. And in the mean time, an estate devoted to dogs is likely to do at least as much good, societally speaking, as one frittered away at gambling tables: it will go to people in the dog industries, rather than people in the gaming industries, and that's probably no bad thing. Thinking about the amounts of harm that people can do in their will, however, I did start wondering at the fact that neither of the two big political parties in the US are particularly well endowed. If someone left either the DNC or the RNC a Helmsley-sized estate, that would transform American politics overnight, and not in a good way. Back in ...

Source: www.modernghana.com --- 14 days ago
The Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Scheme (MASLOC), Mr. Lawrence Akwasi Prempeh has urged Ghanaians who want to access the loan to be very vigilant and not fall prey to impostors He indicated that there were some impostors who were going round collecting monies from people with the assurance to assist them acquire the l ... ...

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Tanzania will become one of the Beneficiaries of USD24.5m issued this week by the African Development Fund to fight river blindness in Africa. ...

Source: www.jamaicagleaner.com --- 14 days ago
Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles says 38,000 new Beneficiaries were added to the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) at the end of June. In a statement to the House of Representatives, Charles said another... ...