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