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<title>Shady Grove Adventist Hospital named a top performer</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185429454</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  its peers between 2002 and 2006, according to data pulled from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Hospital compare data and the Medicare Cost Report. &amp;ldquo;The collaboration and  ...
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<title>Mortality rates for hospitals released</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185428200</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to see how local hospitals stacks up against hospitals nationwide. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the mortality rates of every hospital in the United  ...
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<title>Business Planner - August 28, 2008</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185427752</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  St. Peter&apos;s Lutheran Church community room, 1933 Hanover Ave., Allentown. Program will be on Medicare fraud. Cost: $7 for lunch. SATURDAY SEPT. 6 THE CENTRAL BUCKS Chamber of Commerce  ...
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<title>Cattaraugus overestimated expenses in &apos;07</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185426114</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  report also noted the county nursing homes&apos; enterprise funds will not receive Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements until late in 2008, but some improvement was predicted for the next three  ...
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<title>Mounting U.S. Debt Raising Concerns</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185426066</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  about $7 trillion in Social Security IOUs and $34 trillion worth of obligations for Medicare benefits under current law. The U.S. has held a AAA rating since the 1920s,  ...
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<title>The National Market Is Not the Savior of State Regulated Private Health Insurance</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185425757</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2006 due to an increase in government insured of 2.7M. Medicaid increased by 1.3M, Medicare by 1M and military healthcare programs by 400K. Americans enrolled in 67.5% in 2007  ...
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<title>If you want to talk politics, deal in facts and substance</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185425678</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  so allergic to some medicines that she has to pay upwards of $200, with Medicare, for one of her monthly prescriptions. Every so often, her body forms an immunity  ...
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<title>Millions at stake in study of two eye drugs</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185424079</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  more expensive eye drug, Lucentis. The financial stakes stemming from the study are huge. Medicare officials estimate there could be 50,000 or more additional cases of macular degeneration a  ...
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<title>Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections to be Focus of AVA Meeting</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185421985</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Access (AVA) in September. The conference comes on the eve of major changes in Medicare that will eliminate payments to hospitals that fail to prevent certain hospital-acquired infections. AVA  ...
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<title>Rival eye drugs -- from one company</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185416562</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 12:40 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the costly eye drug, Lucentis. The financial stakes stemming from the study are huge. Medicare officials estimate that there could be 50,000 or more additional cases of macular degeneration  ...
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<title>Uncle Sam&apos;s big health care bill</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185416491</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 12:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Washington, D.C., it&apos;s technically a nonpejorative term for government programs like Social Security and Medicare that aren&apos;t subject to the usual budget process. But what many pundits and pols  ...
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<title>New one-stop service center planned for elderly</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185411819</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 12:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Observer reported Thursday the center will allow elderly people to access information on the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, sign up for Meals on Wheels and examine job  ...
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<title>Retirement woes plague convention delegates</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185411127</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 11:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  several decades have been a good time to be retired in America, historically speaking. Medicare was introduced in 1965, Social Security was expanded in the 1970s to provide ample  ...
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<title>Bankruptcy after a lifetime of getting by</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185410339</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 11:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  trailer home wasn&apos;t in jeopardy because her daughter owns it. While she&apos;s covered by Medicare and receives $968 in Social Security each month, she relied on her job for  ...
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<title>Daughters join Lyndon B. Johnson&apos;s admirers in celebrating former president&apos;s 100th birthday</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185408728</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 11:42 GMT</pubDate>
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...  administration, she listed his domestic accomplishments, such as the Civil Rights Act and education, Medicare and clean air and water legislation. He called those initiatives his Great Society. Luci  ...
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