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		<title>Medicare Nightmare for Doctors &amp; Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General-Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In three western states – California, Hawaii and Nevada – doctors who accept Medicare as payment for patients are stuck between a huge rock and a very, very hard place.  They are in a situation where Medicare’s payment backlog has created a multimillion dollar problem.  They now have to make some vey difficult choices between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Medicare Discourage Treatment for Seniors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare is a system that is supposed to help seniors deal with medical issues by providing coverage for healthcare costs.  As an individual works month after month and year after year, they pay into the Medicare system and the payments are taken out of each of their paychecks.  The idea is that when they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona’s Hospital Choice Website Compares More Than Just Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona Medicaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Hospital and Health Care Association launched a new web site Tuesday called the Hospital Choice Web Site.  This is an innovative move to help consumers determine costs at hospitals throughout Arizona.  The site compares average charges, lengths of stay, and the number of procedures performed at each hospital.
This is extremely important for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Some Good News for Medicare Recipients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Electric Wheelchairs & Scooters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Medical Equipment (HME)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durable equipment, such as wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds and other medical equipment has long been the subject of frustration because of their costs.  If an individual has Medicare, often Medicare pays for some or all of these items, with little cost to the recipient.
 
However, the costs of much of this equipment are extremely high, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicaid to Involve more Home Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past decade or more, there has been a push by citizens, advocates and, yes, even congress, to allow individuals to have home health care rather than staying in a facility.  As many of us know, a person that can live at home and interact in the community, while being taken care of medically, [...]]]></description>
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