• Look up Medicare or medicare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Medicare may refer to several publicly funded health insurance programs: Medicare (Australia)...
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    Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with...
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  • Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C, MA) is a type of health plan offered by private companies which was established by the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) in...
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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers...
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  • Medicare is the publicly funded universal health care insurance scheme in Australia operated by the nation's social security agency, Services Australia...
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  • include the United Kingdom's National Health Service, Australia's Medicare, Canada's Medicare, Spain's National Health System, Taiwan's National Health Insurance...
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    The Medicare for All Act (abbreviated M4A), also known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act or United States National Health Care Act, is...
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  • In the United States, Medicare fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled. There are many different...
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    Several individuals have been described as the father of medicare in Canada. Medicare is the country's publicly funded health system. Tommy Douglas championed...
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    Medicare Part D, also called the Medicare prescription drug benefit, is an optional United States federal-government program to help Medicare beneficiaries...
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    The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA, is a federal law of the United States...
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    Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's...
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  • the company acquired XLHealth, a sponsor of Medicare Advantage health plans with a primary focus on medicare recipients with special needs such as those...
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  • Health insurance in the United States (category Medicare and Medicaid (United States))
    both private insurance programs and social insurance programs such as Medicare, which pools resources and spreads the financial risk associated with major...
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    Australia operates under a shared public-private model underpinned by the Medicare system, the national single-payer funding model. State and territory governments...
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  • treatment to receive approval through an accelerated pathway. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a coverage decision for aducanumab...
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    healthcare policy official who has been the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Biden administration since May 2021. Brooks-LaSure...
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  • The Medicare for All Caucus is a congressional caucus in the United States House of Representatives, consisting of members that advocate for the implementation...
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  • Dual-eligible beneficiaries (Medicare dual eligibles or "duals") refers to those qualifying for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits. In the United States...
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  • prominent in Medicare, where almost 50 million enrollees can choose to stay in original Medicare, or join or change plans within the Medicare Advantage and...
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    Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub. L. 114–10 (text) (PDF)) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, is a United...
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    advocate for major reforms of the health insurance industry, including Medicare for All and universal health care. Potter has been called the "Daniel Ellsberg...
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    spending, funded through a combination of new taxes and cuts to Medicare provider rates and Medicare Advantage. Several Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports...
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    States federal budget consists of mandatory expenditures (which includes Medicare and Social Security), discretionary spending for defense, Cabinet departments...
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  • Congress created Medicare Part D with the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which prevented Medicare, the country's largest...
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    Medicaid (category Medicare and Medicaid (United States))
    disease. The Medicare Program provides a Medicare part A covering hospital bills, Medicare Part B covering medical insurance coverage, and Medicare Part D covering...
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  • A Medicare card is a plastic card, the same size as a typical credit card, issued to Australian citizens and permanent residents and their families. The...
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    to jump-start its business selling Medicare plans from 46,000 Medicare Advantage members to almost 400,000 Medicare Advantage members. The payment would...
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  • builds on the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration and the Medicare Health Care Quality Demonstration, established by the 2003 Medicare Prescription...
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  • Medigap (redirect from Medicare supplement)
    called Medicare supplement insurance or Medicare supplemental insurance) refers to various private health insurance plans sold to supplement Medicare in the...
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