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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.

NIB lifts profit outlook after Medicare levy rejection  Health insurer NIB has lifted its profit outlook in light of the Senate's rejection of changes to the Medicare levy surcharge.

Biotechnology Drug Costs in U.S. Rise 8.7 Percent, AARP Says  Sept. 25 -- Prices of specialty drugs used to treat complex conditions in the elderly, such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, rose three times the rate of inflation last year in the U.S., according to a survey.

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.

Report: Medicare spending billions on suspicious claims  Medicare pays millions each year for medical supplies such as walkers and glucose test strips for patients who don't appear to need them, congressional investigators say in a report out today.

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...

Medicare criticized for equipment pay-outs   WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 UPI -- Medicare is paying out millions of dollars each year on medical equipment for U.S. patients whose diagnoses don't call for it, investigators say.

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.

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.

Breast Cancer Treatment Can Be Undermined By The Dietary Supplement Genistein  Women taking aromatase inhibitors to treat breast cancer or prevent its recurrence should think twice before also taking a soy-based dietary supplement, researchers report.

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