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AMA supports overhaul of Medicare doctors’ pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Medical Association says it strongly supports legislation that would change the way Medicare pays doctors, to emphasize quality care and not just sheer volume of services. The endorsement Monday from AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven provided…
Congress Plans to Dump Medicare’s “Doc Fix”
Lawmakers are moving toward a permanent fix to Medicare’s flawed physician payment system that would completely transform the way the government pays doctors. House and Senate Committee leaders unveiled a measure last week that would repeal Medicare’s sustainable growth rate formula—the current and…
Retired and broke: Social Security and the struggle to make it last
Over the course of their 60-year marriage, Bernard “Bernie” Karpinkski and his wife, Violet, took few chances when it came to their retirement. “From the time we were married, we started saving,” says Bernie, 89, who lives in Pueblo, Colorado.…
Artists with disabilities to showcase their work later this year in Phoenix
Photographers with disabilities will get an opportunity to showcase their work in downtown Phoenix this year in the ninth annual art competition as part of the city’s efforts to promote disability awareness.The competition will take place on Nov. 7 at…
Medicare paid millions to prisoners
Food stamps. Free meals. Cable TV. Unemployment and disability benefits. And now prescription drugs. It’s a good time to be in prison, where inmates are mistakenly receiving tens of millions of dollars in benefits at taxpayer expense. The latest folly comes compliments…
US says Social Security computer outage to affect HealthCare.gov
The Obama administration on Monday said people hoping to enroll in health coverage for March 1 may have trouble applying by Saturday’s deadline because of a planned 62-hour maintenance shutdown of a Social Security Administration computer system. The U.S. Centers for…
ALERT! Now Social Security Is Also Shutting Down On February 15th-18th!
Still thinking about applying for obamacare? You may have trouble making the March 1 deadline. The Social Security 4-day shutdown will affest the health”care” enrollment page. Not to mention that this is incredibale timing. Banks are supposed to do a viral…
Olympians of Social Security; Feb. 11 is Safer Internet Day
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While the eyes of the world focus on the XXII Winter Olympics in the resort town of Sochi, Russia this month, we’d like to bring your attention to another worthy focal point: internet safety. February 11 is…
Identity thieves on the prowl during tax season
It’s the time of the year during which millions of Americans sharpen their pencils, dig out their calculators and rifle their files for W-2 forms, bank statements and receipts. It’s also the time in which identity thieves try to intercept the…
New Medicare guidelines will cost Bay Area Hospital $300,000 in 2014
COOS BAY — New, stricter guidelines from Medicare brought on by the Affordable Care Act have more than a thousand hospitals nationwide feeling financial strain. Bay Area Hospital is no different. The hospital will lose up to $300,000 in Medicare funding…