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Residents in Moore County who have missed the Dec. 7 deadline to join, switch or drop a Medicare health plan or drug plan coverage due to the widespread power outage will still be able to sign up after today.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 3:01 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina was in the top 10 states with the highest average hospital Medicare profit margins for five years.
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 6:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A second Raleigh healthcare company executive has pled guilty to defrauding the Medicare system for millions of dollars.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2022 @ 4:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Back in 2003, when President George W. Bush was campaigning for re-election, he praised Congress for approving a Medicare prescription drug benefit overhaul that he supported.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2022 @ 2:06 am
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina's largest hospital systems profited from billions COVID relief funds and Medicare payments.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Humana Medicare Advantage Plan Members to See Zero Cost Dialysis Care and Lab Services in Urgent Care Centers and Outpatient Facilities
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 8:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A group of residents from western North Carolina filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 10, against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleging the anti-competitive business practices have driven medical prices up and the quality of health care down in that part of the state.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Telehealth Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries Increased By 13,000% In Just A Month And A Half During The Pandemic
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 @ 5:59 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The "free" lunch is back in a big way.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 8:46 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Vidant Health, one of the region’s leading integrated health systems, and Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, today announced an agreement to expand health care options for Humana Medicare Advantage members in Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 @ 6:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It’s been six whole days since Nancy Pelosi’s partisan wish list disguised as a phase four COVID-19 relief bill passed the House, and Cal Cunningham has yet to oppose it.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 1:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sally Pipes writes for the Washington Examiner about widespread misunderstanding of costs linked to the policy proposal dubbed “Medicare for All.”
Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2020 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State retirees and their dependents beginning next year won’t pay premiums on Medicare Advantage plans.
Published: Thursday, March 12th, 2020 @ 10:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump at Signing of an Executive Order Protecting and Improving Medicare for our Nation’s Seniors | Ocala, FL
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 8:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump will never allow the left’s radical Medicare-for-All to destroy the American healthcare system.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One of the best examples of pure socialism in the United States can be found right here in North Carolina - our system of distribution and sales of alcoholic beverages
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Direct primary care (DPC) is the Netflix of primary care. In exchange for a small monthly fee, patient members of the DPC clinic have around-the-clock access to the services that their physician offers
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As another year draws to a close, a year of Democratic resurgence in both national and local politics, I offer this challenge to incumbent and newly elected lawmakers alike
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the unanimous passage of the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act, bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, create a public health infrastructure across the country to combat Alzheimer's disease
Published: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 @ 2:06 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released a spending report showing that the rate of health care spending growth slowed for the second straight year
Published: Thursday, December 13th, 2018 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will work every day to ensure all Americans have access to the quality, affordable medication they need and they deserve.
Published: Saturday, October 13th, 2018 @ 1:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The United States health care system is a unique, complex web of consumers, providers, and payers. And it is expensive
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently released federal data shows that a partnership between ECU and Vidant Health made significant improvements in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries while still achieving significant cost savings last year
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is about to undertake the greatest revolution in healthcare since the 1965 advent of Medicaid and Medicare
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 @ 7:23 am
By: Tom Campbell
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"Whoever thought I was going to live so long," my 96 year old mother asked? She isn't alone
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 1:29 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Medicare and Social Security, along with Medicaid, represent a majority of the federal budget each year, and represent mandatory spending
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 6:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity," writes W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2018 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Medical Center was included in a nationwide audit on the use of specific diagnostic codes (261 and 262) which, when added to a Medicare claim, usually results in a higher Medicare payment.
Published: Friday, April 21st, 2017 @ 3:31 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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During a March 27 talk at North Carolina State University, Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett told the assembled faculty, students, and other members of the audience that many of his allies on the political Right were wrong
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2017 @ 9:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In July the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings for over 3,500 hospitals nationwide.
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 5:37 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2015 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model that show physicians, hospitals and health care providers participating in Accountable Care Organization
Published: Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 @ 8:59 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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State health officials announced today that the state- and Medicaid-funded Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations providing mental health, intellectual and developmental disability and substance use services to North Carolina citizens will be consolidating into four service regions
Published: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 @ 11:48 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Vidant Home Health and Hospice received five stars for patient experience for home health care through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 1:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Summary: Start talking to Seniors about Medicare before you retire. Trial and error experience is easier to absorb than reading information provided by government.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:34 am
By: Ted McDonald
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