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		<title>New Medicare Rules for Hospitals Start Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been hearing a lot lately about a new way that Medicare plans to keep the highest quality of procedures and services in hospitals.  Most of the feedback has been excellent, except for – you guessed it – a few hospitals whose track records aren’t so great.
The new rules are considered a bold new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care for Undocumented Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many debates recently as to how to handle the situation of healthcare for individuals who are living in the United States but are not U.S. citizens.  With elections around the corner, this issue has become an intense topic for discussion on all sides of the aisle.
There are many varied opinions regarding healthcare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Monitors and Raises Quality in Hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working on a pilot program for three years.  The pilot program has involved over 250 hospitals and has monitored quality measures in those hospitals during that time, offering rewards for high quality. 
This partnership between the hospital consortium and Premier and the CMS spent the three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Hospitals Can Save Medicare Billions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more and more issues surrounding saving Medicare money lately, and there are a lot of ideas swirling around to make that happen.  One idea that has come to the fore and was featured in the Boston Globe is a way to help patients on Medicare, give them better service and better outcomes, and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Hospitals Use the Homeless for Fraud</title>
		<link>http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/california-hospitals-use-the-homeless-for-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://medicare-medicaid.com/medicare/california-hospitals-use-the-homeless-for-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnaLise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, Medicare fraud is not a new thing.  It has been around for years, though it has grown over the years to a multi-million dollar business.  Whether it is unscrupulous sales people selling bogus supplemental policies to unsuspecting seniors or whether it is people sending in claims with dead doctors’ identification numbers or other creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Monitors and Raises Quality in Hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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