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- Provider payments play prominent role in FY 2003 budgeting wrangling. Brown, Steve // AHA News;3/11/2002, Vol. 38 Issue 9, p1
Focuses on the implications of a prescription drug benefit coverage and Medicare reform bill in the U.S. on health care providers. Plan for fiscal 2003 budget; Purpose of Medicare reform; Cost effectiveness of Medicare reform.
- Squabbles delay Rx benefit. // Business Insurance;07/03/2000, Vol. 34 Issue 27, p8
Comments on the delay in the expansion of retirees' Medicare coverage for prescription drugs due to competing proposals on the issue. Various plans offered by the United States Congress and by President Bill Clinton's administration; Need for compromise between the Republicans and the Democrats...
- Medicare pay raise likely. Lovern, Ed // Modern Healthcare;6/24/2002, Vol. 32 Issue 25, p10
Reports on the drug benefit and Medicare modernization legislation that passed the U.S. House Ways, Means and Energy and Commerce committees in June 2002. Provisions included in the legislation; Reason the House Democrats criticized the Republican's Medicare prescription-drug bill; Opposition...
- A PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDICARE PART. O'Keefe, Gena; Veale, Lisa; North, Marisa; Goetzinger, Katherine; Stewart, John; Sharfstein, Joshua M. // Public Health Reports;Jan/Feb2007, Vol. 122 Issue 1, p101
The article focuses on the preparation and implementation of Part D of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 by the local health department in Baltimore, Maryland. The city of Baltimore designed and implemented the Medicare Part D Surveillance and Response...
- Employers win in Medicare reform. Kiger, Patrick J. // Workforce Management;Jan2004, Vol. 83 Issue 1, p22
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- The President's Radio Address. Clinton, William J. // Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents;5/8/2000, Vol. 36 Issue 18, p945
Presents the text of a radio address given by United States President Bill Clinton on April 29, 2000, which deals with the Patient's Bill of Rights and voluntary Medicare prescription drug benefits.
- Medicare Drug Benefits Plan Raises Value Issues for Buyers. Sikora, Martin // Mergers & Acquisitions: The Dealermaker's Journal;Aug2004, Vol. 39 Issue 8, p9
Provides information on the effects of the Medicare drug benefits law on target companies of acquirers that have post-retiree medical care programs in the U.S. Impact of the law on the financial measures of a company; Effect of the law on the accounting operation concerning comprehensive...
- The game that won't end. Sloane, Todd // Modern Healthcare;3/8/2004, Vol. 34 Issue 10, p30
Focuses on advertising campaigns for prescription drug benefit law in the U.S. Information on the advertising campaign launched by the Department of Health and Human Services and Families USA; Concern of U.S. presidential candidates on Medicare; Comment from Drew Altman, president and CEO of...
- Drug Entitlement Survives House by One Vote. Freddoso, David // Human Events;7/14/2003, Vol. 59 Issue 23, p5
Presents information on the decision of several legislators at the U.S. House of Representatives on a proposal to create a federal entitlement in the form of a Medicare drug benefit. Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.); Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.); Representative Steve King (R-Iowa)....
