North Texas doctor sentenced to prison in sweeping $54 million Medicare fraud case
A North Texas doctor was sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison Tuesday for a scheme to defraud Medicare out of ...
Medicare drug plans improve, but not all are created equal
Seniors have until Dec. 7 to make a decision about their 2025 plans. Help is available to review premiums, deductibles and ...
American College of Radiology3d
Medicare Beneficiaries Win With CT Colonography Screening Coverage Effective Jan. 1
The American College of Radiology® (ACR®) is celebrating the decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to finalize its proposal to allow coverage of CT colonography (CTC) for ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News8d
MA recipients have fewer unnecessary medical services compared with traditional Medicare beneficiaries: study says
A comprehensive new study of nearly 6 million Medicare beneficiaries, averaging 75 years old, reveals significant differences ...
valuepenguin7d
Top 5 Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage Plans (+ 5 Benefits)
Medicare Advantage plans are best if you don't need expensive treatments or tests. But Medicare Advantage plans do have some perks, including simplified coverage and a yearly cap on health care ...
The American Journal of Managed Care3d
Telehealth Does Not Increase Low-Value Care, Study Finds
A study finds that telehealth does not lead to an increase in wasteful, low-value care and may even reduce unnecessary tests ...
Medicare Advantage insurers fear losing millions over a few bad phone calls
Multiple lawsuits allege that the ratings for several popular Medicare Advantage plans were skewed by a handful of bad customer service calls.
North Texas doctor sentenced to prison for $54 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare
The doctor received about $30 in exchange for each order he signed for fake cancer testing prescriptions, totaling over ...
Adaptive Biotechnologies Receives Expanded Medicare Coverage of clonoSEQ® for Assessing Measurable Residual Disease in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
SEQ is the first and only assay to receive Medicare coverage for MRD assessment in MCLCoverage leverages new Medicare episode pricing ...
Fierce Healthcare6d
Hospital groups blast senators' site-neutral Medicare payment reform plan
Louisiana, and Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, published a policy paper advocating to impose site-neutral Medicare payments ...
Medscape4d
Telehealth Adoption in Primary Care: Reducing Low-Value Services
A total of 577,928 Medicare beneficiaries attributed to 2552 primary care ... High practice-level telehealth use was ...