An investigation by The Washington Independent’s sister site, The Florida Independent.
Two weeks before Florida’s primary, new allegations of improper Medicare billing by Solantic, a health care company co-founded by Rick Scott, have surfaced, in addition to charges made by former Solantic doctors that their names and licenses were More…
Changes to Social Security see support from both parties.
Senate candidate Alvin Greene’s job-creation idea is to make action figures of himself.
Michele Bachmann’s challenger raises $910,000 in the second quarter.
Arizona’s immigration law could derail the 28th annual conference of border More…
Dean Baker thinks so. In a talk at the DC bookstore Politics and Prose last night, the progressive economist suggested that we could save billions on Medicare and Medicaid payments by giving retirees a financial incentive to move abroad. It’s an intriguing idea — video after the jump:
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the extenders package, also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213. He intends to call a vote to end debate and move forward on the bill either today or tomorrow. But Senate aides are very concerned that Republican More…
Pulling the Medicare provision out of the stalled jobs bill and voting on it separately, the Senate unanimously agreed this afternoon to delay a 21 percent cut to doctors’ Medicare reimbursement rates until December.
Due to the weeks it has taken the Senate to get to voting on the More…
Yesterday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) withdrew his request for a cloture vote to end debate on the pending jobs bill, which continues the emergency extension of unemployment insurance, Medicaid funding for states and Medicare payments for doctors.
The Senate has planned further consideration of amendments and More…
This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed for cloture on Monday afternoon, leaving just days before a vote on the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, or House Resolution More…
It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the Democrats’ plans to prevent Medicare doctors from receiving a 21 percent pay cut at the end of this month.
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It’s been trumpeted as one of the key elements in the Democrats’ plan to expand access to health care for tens of millions of vulnerable Americans.
Yet a provision of the newly passed health reform bill that raises doctors’ payments under Medicaid is both temporary and limited in the More…
A 21-percent cut in Medicare payments for doctors is scheduled to take effect April 1 and congressional leaders have plenty of reasons to step in and prevent it: Policy-wise, the cut could cause serious access-to-care problems if doctors stopped seeing Medicare patients, as many have threatened to do. Politically, no More…
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