- Department of Health Warns of CCP Virus-Related Fraud
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General recently warned the general public about CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus-related fraud schemes as the pandemic remains one of the country’s top concerns. Chris Schrank, the assistant inspector general for investigations at the HHS, alerted the public in a video released on Dec. 21 that […]
- Joe Biden Exploited S-Corporation Loophole to Avoid Payroll Tax
The establishment media is all aflutter Monday after a New York Times story over the weekend about incumbent GOP President Donald Trump’s tax records, but it turns out Democrat candidate former Vice President Joe Biden used a series of tax code loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the years. […]
- Watchdog Report Faults Medicare Agency’s Contract Management
WASHINGTON—The head of the Medicare and Medicaid programs failed to properly manage more than $6 million in communications and outreach contracts, giving broad authority over federal employees to a Republican media strategist she worked with before joining the Trump administration, a government watchdog said in a report (pdf) released Thursday. Seema Verma, administrator of the […]
- Hospitals Knew How to Make Money. Then Coronavirus Happened.
When the top-ranked Mayo Clinic stopped all nonemergency medical care in late March, it began to lose millions of dollars a day. The clinic, a Minnesota-based hospital system accustomed to treating American presidents and foreign dignitaries, saw revenue plummet as it postponed lucrative surgeries to make way for coronavirus victims. The hospital network produced $1 […]
- Analysis: GOP Voters Remain Economic Populists, Cultural Conservatives
Republican voters continue to be populist on economic issues and conservative on cultural issues, analysis of the 2020 electorate reveals. Research conducted by Navigator of more than 3,000 voters for President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden in the November 3 presidential election finds that while Republican voters remain mostly culturally conservative, they lean towards the […]
- The Medicare Resource Center Now Open in Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 24, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Medicare Resource Center — created by AMA Insurance Agency, an unbiased insurance agency that works with major insurance companies to offer Medicare supplement and Medicare Advantage plans — has opened its Santa Barbara location at 121 South Hope Ave., Unit A101, in La Cumbre Plaza. […]
- Health Care Takes Center Stage in Battle for Congress During Pandemic
WASHINGTON — In his two newest campaign advertisements, Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana portrays himself as a health care savior, featuring local nurses who say his expansion of public health insurance rescued Montanans and their hospitals. Steve Daines, the first-term Republican senator whom Mr. Bullock is trying to unseat, has his own ad, accusing the […]
- RNC, Trump Camp launch ‘Seniors Beware’ site to warn of Biden’s health care plan
October 20, 2020 Youtube: Fox News President Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee just launched a new website honing in on former Vice President Joe Biden’s health care plan in an effort to target elderly voters called “Seniors Beware.” Part of the RNC’s recent $60 million digital ad buy, this comes as […]
- Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care
Hospitals across the country are charging private insurance companies 2.5 times what they get from Medicare for the same care, according to a new RAND Corporation study of hospital prices released on Friday. In a half-dozen of 49 states in the survey, including West Virginia and Florida, private insurers paid three or more times what […]
- Most Medicare Enrollees Could Get Insulin for $35 a Month
WASHINGTON—Many Medicare recipients could pay less for insulin next year under a deal President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Medicare recipients who pick a drug plan offering the new insulin benefit would pay a maximum of $35 a month starting next year, a savings estimated at $446 annually. Fluctuating cost-sharing amounts that are common now would […]
- Trump: While I Am President, Nobody Will Touch Your Social Security
President Donald Trump on Monday repeated his promise to seniors that he would not touch their Social Security. President Trump warned Americans that Biden would want free health care for illegal immigrants. “If they let that happen, you would be decimating Medicare and destroying your Social Security,” Trump said on Monday. “When I am president […]
- Trump Issues Expansive Order Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a far-reaching executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, but the pharmaceutical industry immediately denounced it and experts said it was unclear whether the White House could carry it out. The order belatedly makes good on — and expands upon — a promise Mr. Trump […]
- Georgia Woman Arrested Over US Medicare Fraud on CCP Virus Testing
WASHINGTON—A Georgia woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly bilking Medicare—the health insurance program for Americans over age 65 and the disabled—by submitting fraudulent claims related to CCP virus testing and genetic cancer tests, the U.S. Justice Department said. The case against Ashley Hoobler Parris, 32, of Lawrencevile, Georgia, marks one of the first Medicare […]
