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Seniors can opt to stay in their marketplace plans when they become eligible for Medicare, but most lose their access to subsidies and failing to move into Medicare promptly results in premium penalties.
Less than 1 percent of beneficiaries use the technology because Congress has put tight restrictions on it.
The Part D plans have cut back coverage of a newer version of OxyContin that has been formulated to make it tougher for people to snort or inject it. That new version is 20 times more expensive than the generic.
But a new study of Medicare beneficiaries finds that hospice services had little impact on depression suffered by individuals after the death of their spouses.
Having blood work and other tests before cataract surgery isn鈥檛 usually recommended, but a study finds that more than half of Medicare beneficiaries get them.
Federal officials release data showing prescription histories of hundreds of thousands of doctors and identifying the most common and costly drugs.
Under Medicare鈥檚 hospice benefit, patients agree to forgo curative treatment, but they can continue to receive coverage for health problems not related to their terminal illness. Federal officials suspect some of those expenses should be covered by hospice.
KHN's Julie Rovner reflects on the constant battle over what Medicare pays doctors -- a fight that ended this week as President Obama signed into law an overhaul that repeals the old method and institutes new provisions to pay doctors based on the quality of care they give.
Some consumers who face a 2014 tax bill can make adjustments to improve their liability.
A rare bipartisan effort will scrap the troubled physician payment formula and transition to a system focused on new quality measures.
More than 300 large medical groups are being penalized because they did not score well on quality measures or didn鈥檛 report their efforts to the government. The incentives will soon expand to all doctors who treat Medicare patients.
After a decade of short term fixes, the House passed legislation to replace Medicare鈥檚 troubled Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR, and replace it with an alternative doctor payment formula. Kaiser Health News' Mary Agnes Carey and Politico Pro's Jennifer Haberkorn discuss what's next for the bill when the Senate returns from recess next month.
For more than a decade, doctors who treat Medicare patients have been threatened with pay cuts due to a faulty formula of how doctors are reimbursed. But in a rare bipartisan agreement, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a deal to permanently end the problem and reward quality of care, not quantity.
For people in Mount Vernon, Texas, the loss of their hospital means longer trips for treatment and uncertainty when a medical crisis hits.
Pleasing patients has become more important to hospitals as Medicare takes consumers views into account when setting payments. Most hospitals are getting better, but others have not improved since the government started publishing ratings six years ago.
New federal rules requiring current information apply to insurers selling plans on healthcare.gov and the private policies that are an alternative to Medicare.
For many physicians, normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, doesn鈥檛 come to mind when they see people with cognitive and gait problems, although it is one of the few treatable causes of dementia.
KHN consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers readers鈥 questions about enrolling at this point in marketplace plans, CHIP enrollment and Medicare disability.
A little known part of Obamacare pays primary care doctors to help overweight seniors drop pounds and improve their health. So why aren鈥檛 more seniors taking advantage of the free benefit?
The lethal infection is one of three that the CDC says urgently require close monitoring and prevention to halt their spread.
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