Oncologists say Medicare won&#39;t cover drug costs
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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors&#39; offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced a proposal Monday to expand Medicare coverage for certain clinical trials for cancer drugs and pay cancer doctors to measure patient reaction to potent medication.
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Amid Social Security debate, this week's news on drug-benefit costs hint at a $27 trillion Medicare obligation.
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Limiting the fees that Medicare pays  to doctors has apparently not scared them off taking Medicare  patients, and most people trying to find medical care under the  program have been able to, according to a government report  released on Friday.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The fear that the new Medicare drug plan would limit access to medicines hasn't come true, as least as far as cancer treatment is concerned, a new report finds.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave  more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide  cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key  drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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Medicare's new prescription drug coverage should help most elderly, including some of the poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will pay more for medicine, according to an analysis released on Monday.
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Be aware of the Medicare drug plan's gaps.
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The Bush administration defended the Medicare prescription drug benefit program on Monday as being cheaper than initially forecast, challenging the U.S. government's top accountant who called it "fiscally irresponsible."
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Rising cost projections for the new Medicare drug benefit alarmed U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday and set off renewed calls to restrain spiraling drug prices and allow pharmaceutical imports from Canada.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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Members of Congress expressed concern about new data indicating that Medicare pays private health plans more than it would cost to care for the same patients in the traditional program.
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The figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the Medicare drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar.
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Thousands of Massachusetts senior citizens with Medicare drug benefits have received automated phone calls from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in recent days asking them to repay up to $1,400 because Medicare failed to automatically deduct monthly premiums from their Social Security checks.
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The costs of the Medicare and  Medicaid health insurance programs are rising at unsustainable  rates that will force policy makers to adopt major changes to  curb spending, the head of the Congressional Budget Office  warned on Monday.
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A nationally funded pharmacare plan proposed by the premiers will be too costly, the federal Finance Minister said Thursday, and acknowledged that this September&#39;s meeting with the first ministers may include some head-butting over ...
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NEW YORK  - The costs of caring for elderly people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care, according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.