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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 24, 1999

Page

6

Growing old Special care for special people

An article promoting elder care awareness discusses aging challenges and housing options. It highlights residential and in home services, notes most elderly live independently or with family, and introduces ESPECIALLY SENIORS in the Aiken area with contact details. It ends urging open conversations with aging parents.

Aiken

Justices define guides for Medicare funding appeals

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that health care providers funded by Medicare cannot appeal a refusal to reopen a prior year's payment decision. The case involved Your Home Visiting Nurse Services in Knoxville, Tennessee. Providers may appeal cost-based reimbursement decisions to an intermediary and then to courts within set timeframes, with a three year window to request reopening by the intermediary.

Washington Supreme Court Tennessee Knoxville Tenn Medicare

Supreme Court Denies Nursing Service Appeal on Reopened Case

The Supreme Court rules in Your Home Visiting Nurse Services versus Shalala that federal law prevents appeals to reopen funding decisions by intermediaries or review boards. The Tennessee firm challenged Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Carolina and the Provider Reimbursement Review Board after 1989 funding denial.

Tennessee Nursing Service Company Your Home Blue Cross Blue Shield South Carolina Your Vice’s Knoxville Review Board 6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Supreme Court Antonin Scalia Shalala

Clinton pushes expanded Medicaid for children nationwide

President Clinton launched the Insure Kids Now campaign with the first lady and governors to enroll about five million of the ten to eleven million uninsured children in Medicaid and the new Children's Health Insurance Program. A toll free line 1877-KIDS-NOW will disseminate information via radio ads and public service announcements across 45 states.

Washington Clinton National Governors’ Association

HMOs show mixed results in Medicare breast cancer care

A government study in JAMA finds HMO plans diagnose earlier and treat breast cancer more often than traditional fee for service, but results vary widely across HMOs with lumpectomy and radiation rates ranging from 27.1 to 55.1 percent and 49.2 to 82.5 percent. Gerald F Riley of HCFA led the study referencing 1988 to 1993 data.

Intenna Vital Healt Chicago Journal of the American Medical Association Medicare Gerald F Riley Federal Health Care Financing Administration

Radial Scar May Predict Benign Breast Biopsy Cancer Risk

A Boston study of 1396 women with benign breast biopsies found that those with radial scars have about a 32 percent risk of later developing breast cancer, versus about 20 percent for those without radial scars. Risk rises with more and larger scars.

New England Journal of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston

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