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Baylor plans cancer center rivaling M.D. Anderson  Baylor Health Care System on Friday expects to announce plans for a $350 million, 450,000-square-foot cancer center, featuring a 120-bed cancer hospital and the largest outpatient cancer center in Texas.

Doctors Indicted For Alleged Medicare Fraud  Seven doctors have been implicated in a complex scheme to steal money from Medicare by billing unnecessary procedures to elderly people and attributing medical costs to dead patients. Authorities say part of the scheme was run out of a Sacramento-area office.

Mercy plans around Medicare cut  Beginning Oct. 1, Medicare and Medicaid will no longer pay for medical care if patients get an infection while they're being treated at a hospital.

Probe: Medicare paid billions in suspect claims   The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition, including blood glucose strips for sexual impotence and special diabetic shoes for leg amputees, congressional investigators say.

Medicare Part B Premiums In 2009 Will Not Increase For Most Beneficiaries  CMS on Friday announced that monthly outpatient care premiums for about 95% of Medicare recipients will remain at $96.40 in 2009, the San Francisco Chronicle reports Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/20. The premium covers a portion of the costs of physician services, home health care and certain durable medical equipment.

Medicare HMO costs may prevent cancer patient clinical trial participation   University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences According to a study from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, newly diagnosed cancer patients age 65 and older who are enrolled in Medicare's Health Maintenance Organization plans may be unlikely to participate in clinical trials because the plan requires patients to pay both a deductible and 20 percent of the treatment cost. ...

Two admit roles in Medicare fraud scheme in area  The owners of a Newark-based medical services company on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a Medicare fraud scheme that, in part, used residents of apartments in Neptune and Red Bank to scam the federal government out of more than $100,000.

Town topics - Sept. 25  ELLWOOD CITY Flu shot clinic The Ellwood Area Family Center, 311 College St., will have a flu shot clinic from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 7. There will be no out-of-pocket charge for those with Security Blue, Freedom Blue, Medicare Part B or Aetna insurance plans.

Two admit to $100,000 Medicare fraud scheme  The owners of a Newark-based medical services company this morning pleaded guilty to a Medicare fraud scheme that, in part, used apartment residents in Neptune and Red Bank to scam the federal government out of more than $100,000.

Shoes for amputees? Medicare waste revealed  The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition.

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