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Medicare

• 07.23.07
  Access to Medicare: Things Are Bad all Over   Medicare (0)

  Physicians who live and die by the vagaries of Medicare policies and reimbursement are doing more dying than living. For their frail elderly and disabled patients, managing their care is increasingly under-reimbursed and over-complicated. These patients, by definition, have multiple needs and they are typically on several drug regimens that Part D allows the preferred […]

• 07.23.07
  A Useful Guide for Evaluating Frail Patients for Mobility Assistance   Medicare (0)

  Physicians with frail elderly patients will find their evaluation to determine whether they need mobility assistance requires more hoops and ladders, starting with a required face-to-face examination, which on its own "face" is a logical and widely understood medical standard of care. What the face-to-face exam requirement lacks is clarity and specificity as to what […]

• 07.11.07
  Rationing Access by Stealth - Medicare's Latest Program Design   General, Medicare (0)

  Medicare’s crackdown on the wheelchair industry risks putting frail elderly and disabled patients under virtual house arrest. These regulatory changes are largely in response to a high profile Nigerian scam in Houston costing CMS millions, that occurred even after The Scooter store warned regulators of an anomalous spike in sales in that market. It is […]

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• A Physician's Perspective on "Sicko"
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• Access to Medicare: Things Are Bad all Over
• A Useful Guide for Evaluating Frail Patients for Mobility Assistance
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