"… the decade to help doctors and hospitals purchase the systems. On Dec. 30, Medicare officials issued draft guidelines detailing standards that doctors and hos …"

"… ents. Starting next year, doctors can receive as much as $44,000 each from Medicare for buying the systems and making “meaningful use” of them. Hospitals …"

"… aningful use” of them. Hospitals are eligible for millions of dollars in Medicare bonus money.But Grassley, whose committee oversees Medicare, has expressed …"

"… of dollars in Medicare bonus money.But Grassley, whose committee oversees Medicare, has expressed doubts about the quality of some systems as well as the bus …"

"… doctors and hospitals that fail to go paperless by 2016 face cuts in their Medicare payments as a penalty.Officials at the federal Office of National Coordina …"

"… m has often been cited by President Obama as a model.Officials who run the Medicare program and have the final say over the meaningful use regulations, declin …"

"… il responses to questions posed by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Medicare official Tony Trenkle said the agency “could not, as it developed the pr …"

"… s plan.Under the stimulus bill, doctors can receive up to $44,000 in extra Medicare payments if they adopt a digital medical record system and make “meaning …"

"… g provided to seniors who fall into the dreaded “doughnut hole” of the Medicare prescription drug benefit program, and the federal tax credit that’s ava …"

"… his is the way to go. The evidence is there. If you look at seniors in the Medicare program, by and large that program has functioned as it was intended, and …"

"… om health-related interests as the committee of 12 debates serious cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.The donations from political action committees slightly favor …"

"… money on health care, which many have speculated means potential cuts into Medicare and Medicaid.Fresenius Medical provides a good example for how companies m …"

"… e world, operating over 1,800 clinics in the U.S. alone.With the number of Medicare patients receiving dialysis (and, accordingly, the Medicare expenses for r …"

"… the number of Medicare patients receiving dialysis (and, accordingly, the Medicare expenses for renal disease treatment) going up in recent years, the reimbu …"

"… ut 2 percent to 3 percent to the health care law. Wilensky was the head of Medicare during the George H.W. Bush administration and is now a senior fellow at P …"

"… industry will get passed on to consumers.The actuaries of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have estimated — and Sheils agrees — that privat …"

"… lfilled Promises of Health Care Bill.” ABC News. 29 Sep 2011.Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Office of the Actuary. “National Health Expendi …"

"… read use of electronic health records. The government will begin deducting Medicare payments from providers if they do not go digital by 2015.However, the mon …"

"… ealth care. Most of the attention has been focused on $27 billion worth of Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments that are going out to doctors, hospitals a …"

"… government-run death plans that will decide when to pull the plug on sick Medicare beneficiaries. Supporters can’t expect debate moderators to challenge th …"

"… hese are just a sampling of the adverse events that more than a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries experienced while they were in treatment at hospitals, accor …"

"… l’s report.The Oct. 2008 survey of 81 hospitals found that 27 percent of Medicare beneficiaries experienced adverse events — medical errors or other impro …"

"… ructure. The report, Adverse Events in Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Recipients, was released last week.Hospitals bear the primary responsibili …"

"… stigations should proceed is less clear. Hospitals that participate in the Medicare program must either be accredited by the independent, nationally recognize …"