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Medicare announces small increases in pay for family care and hospital outpatient services

Family physicians will get a 7 percent increase in Medicare payments while others who provide family care services will get 3 to 5 percent boosts. Hospital outpatient payments will grow 1.8 percent.

3 Nov 2012

Viewpoints: Romney, Obama offer their 'visions for America;' One liberal wary of Mass. effort on assisted suicide

Change is an America where we reduce our deficit by cutting spending where we can, and asking the wealthiest Americans to go back to the income tax rates they paid when Bill Clinton was president. I've worked with Republicans to cut a trillion dollars of spending, and I'll do more. I'll work with anyone of any party to move this country forward. But I won't agree to eliminate health insurance for millions of poor, elderly, or disabled on Medicaid, or turn Medicare into a voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut.

3 Nov 2012

Forecasting health policy for the post-election landscape

Various news stories examine how the outcome of the presidential election could lead to very different courses for the health law's implementation and approaches to Medicare reform.

3 Nov 2012

Treatments and outcomes vary for nursing home residents who use Medicare SNF care: Study

A Medicare rule that blocks thousands of nursing home residents from receiving simultaneous reimbursement for hospice and skilled nursing facility care at the end of life may result in those residents receiving more aggressive treatment and hospitalization, according a new analysis.

3 Nov 2012

Public health threats, struggling hospitals loom in Sandy's wake

Public health officials are warning that people in areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy face many risks in the aftermath and are urging people to protect themselves from health threats in the water, air and even their refrigerators.

3 Nov 2012

Romney campaign focuses on new trio of states

With just days to go until Election Day, the Romney campaign sees possibilities to win in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota, while pro-Obama groups launch new ads about Medicare and women's health.

2 Nov 2012

Doctor self-referrals for advanced imaging cost Medicare $100M in 2010

According to a Government Accountability Office report, doctors who referred patients for tests involving advanced imaging machines that they or a family member owned cost Medicare more than $100 million in 2010.

2 Nov 2012

Roundup: Texas will keep Planned Parenthood Women's Health Program for now; Kids' autism covered in Wash. Medicaid; UnitedHealth selling S.C. Medicaid biz

Planned Parenthood will continue to receive funds from a joint Texas and federal program providing health care to low-income women, despite the state's promise to exclude its clinics by Nov. 1 because they are affiliated with abortion providers.

2 Nov 2012

Viewpoints: George Will: Dems' 'reservoir of condenscension' focused on women; One disabled voter questions assisted suicide referendum

Much of the Democratic Party's vast reservoir of condescension is currently focused on women, who are urged not to trouble their pretty little heads about actual problems but instead to worry that, 52 years after birth control pills went on the market and 47 years after access to contraception became a constitutional right, reproductive freedom is at risk. This insult may explain the shift of women toward Romney.

1 Nov 2012

Teva third quarter 2012 net revenues increase 14% to $5.0 billion

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.

1 Nov 2012

First Edition: November 1, 2012

Today's headlines include highlights from the campaign trail, from the top of the ticket to some of the attention-grabbing Senate races across the country, as well as a report that the Obama administration will not oppose efforts to reopen the religious challenge to the health law.

1 Nov 2012

KFF poll: Obama lead on health issues lessens

The latest Kaiser Family Foundation health care tracking poll -- the last one that will be released before the election -- found that President Barack Obama's advantage on several health issues has diminished.

1 Nov 2012

Campaign trail issues and answers: Medicare reform, health law repeal still part of the mix

How is Medicare playing among the ever-important bloc of Florida senior citizens as the two presidential candidates vie for their votes? Similarly, it's also a hot topic in the Montana Senate race, which is one of the most intensely watched in the country.

1 Nov 2012

Viewpoints: Dukakis on keeping 'Obamacare'; Are Medicare patients being pressured into concierge medicine?

The United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee access to health care for all its citizens. ... That's what Obamacare is designed to fix. ... That's why the next president – whether it is Barack Obama or Mitt Romney - should defend Obamacare and make sure it's fully implemented. Despite what he's said on the campaign trail, Gov. Romney knows this is the responsible thing to do because of what has happened in Massachusetts since the passage of "Romneycare."

1 Nov 2012

FibroGen announces presentation of FG-4592 Phase 2 data on anemia at ASN Kidney Week 2012

FibroGen, Inc., today announced that two abstracts relating to FG-4592, its oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor (HIF-PHI) clinical candidate for the treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease, have been accepted for oral and poster presentations at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2012.

1 Nov 2012

Watson acquires Actavis

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Actavis Group for EUR 4.25 billion.

1 Nov 2012

Medicare news: Health spending on seniors grew faster in U.S. than Canada; Plan to cut costs on dual eligibles raises questions

A new study finds that U.S. spending grew nearly three times faster since 1980 than Canada's spending on a similar population group.

1 Nov 2012

Report: Medicare prescription drug prices remain stable

Prescription drug prices did not increase for other Medicare consumers after pharmaceutical companies gave the government discounts to help seniors deal with a gap in benefits known as the "doughnut hole," a new report shows.

31 Oct 2012

High turnout projected for tight presidential race

A new Pew Research Center poll finds the race between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney "dead even," although a Battleground tracking poll gives a slight edge to Obama in swing states. Meanwhile, as Obama focused on Mega-Storm Sandy, former President Bill Clinton carried the campaign message to Florida, highlighting key parts of the health law.

31 Oct 2012

Cost of searching for fountain of youth exceeds cost for medications to treat chronic disease

The cost of searching for the fountain of youth has become increasingly expensive and now exceeds the cost for medications used to treat chronic disease, according to new research released today at the American Public Health Association's 140th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

31 Oct 2012

Medicare News and Research

Medicare announces small increases in pay for family care and hospital outpatient services

Viewpoints: Romney, Obama offer their 'visions for America;' One liberal wary of Mass. effort on assisted suicide

Forecasting health policy for the post-election landscape

Treatments and outcomes vary for nursing home residents who use Medicare SNF care: Study

Public health threats, struggling hospitals loom in Sandy's wake

Romney campaign focuses on new trio of states

Doctor self-referrals for advanced imaging cost Medicare $100M in 2010

Roundup: Texas will keep Planned Parenthood Women's Health Program for now; Kids' autism covered in Wash. Medicaid; UnitedHealth selling S.C. Medicaid biz

Viewpoints: George Will: Dems' 'reservoir of condenscension' focused on women; One disabled voter questions assisted suicide referendum

Teva third quarter 2012 net revenues increase 14% to $5.0 billion

First Edition: November 1, 2012

KFF poll: Obama lead on health issues lessens

Campaign trail issues and answers: Medicare reform, health law repeal still part of the mix

Viewpoints: Dukakis on keeping 'Obamacare'; Are Medicare patients being pressured into concierge medicine?

FibroGen announces presentation of FG-4592 Phase 2 data on anemia at ASN Kidney Week 2012

Watson acquires Actavis

Medicare news: Health spending on seniors grew faster in U.S. than Canada; Plan to cut costs on dual eligibles raises questions

Report: Medicare prescription drug prices remain stable

High turnout projected for tight presidential race

Cost of searching for fountain of youth exceeds cost for medications to treat chronic disease

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