Manipulating Medicare Archives

Aging Americans worried about their droopy upper eyelids often rely on the plastic surgeon’s scalpel to turn back the hands of time. Increasingly, Medicare is footing the bill. Yes, Medicare. The public health insurance program for people over 65 typically does not cover cosmetic surgery, but for cases in which a patient’s sagging eyelids significantly […]

Category: Manipulating Medicare

Eyelid lifts skyrocket among Medicare patients, costing taxpayers millions

Manipulating Medicare in the election season

Federal panel advises against prostate cancer screen for men

HHS IG report highlights docs’ questionable billing of Medicare

Options for cervical cancer check depend on age

Michael Jackson’s doctor, other convicted felons, still listed as Medicare providers

Digital mammography no better than film for most women, despite increased costs

Debate rages over cancer screening

Forty percent of Medicare spending on common cancer screenings unnecessary, probe suggests

Research methodology

$100 million for artificial legs and feet in question

Doctors sue to end AMA’s role in setting Medicare payments

Medicare paid $47.9 billion for unneeded, miscoded or undocumented health care

After banned from Medicare, podiatrist bills $1M for fake care, including double-amputee’s feet

Probe finds hospital chain inaccurately diagnoses infections

Family docs not ready to leave AMA group with influence over Medicare pay

IMPACT: Bills to open Medicare data pick up another supporter in Senate

IMPACT: Little-known AMA committee that sets Medicare pay catches heat

Have you seen a new doctor since enrolling in Medicare?

Grassley, Wyden introduce bill to make Medicare data public

Senators Grassley, Wyden push to make Medicare billing data public

Budget deliberations silent on Medicare or other entitlements

Medicare can’t identify top prescribers of addictive drugs

Unproven for older women, digital mammography saps Medicare dollars

Data analysis on digital mammography Medicare claims

For federal deficit reduction commission, Medicare changes may be easier said than done

Little-known AMA group has outsized influence on Medicare payments

Medicare: An entitlement out of control