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High Court Rejects Medicare Challenge

By Associated Press January 7, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and other Social Security recipients who say they have the right to reject Medicare in favor of continuing health coverage from private insurers

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Category: Associated Press, Health, National News Tags: challenge, Medicare, U.S. Supreme Court

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GOP VP Pick’s Medicare Plan Back In Spotlight

By Associated Press August 13, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Ryan's blueprint for Medicare could prove as polarizing in the campaign as President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has been.

Even Mitt Romney may not want to go there

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Category: Associated Press, National News, Politics Tags: Medicare, Paul Ryan

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Vioxx Settlement Nets Wyoming $624,000

By Brian Scott May 22, 2012

Wyoming received more than $624,000 to reimburse Wyoming Medicaid in a national settlement with pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (Merck) regarding their drug Vioxx, Attorney General Greg Phillips announced today.

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Category: Wyoming News Tags: Medicaid, Medicare, merck, vioxx

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Medicare Disruptions Seen If Health Law Is Struck

By Associated Press May 3, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has quietly told the courts that tossing out the president's health care overhaul would have major unintended consequences for Medicare's payment systems, which handle 100 million monthly claims from hospitals and other providers

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Category: Associated Press, Health, Wyoming News Tags: Health Care Law, Medicare, US Supreme Court

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Town Hall Meetings Stave Off Obamacare [AUDIO]

By Daniel Sandoval January 26, 2012

There was a capacity crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss a possible health exchange Tuesday evening in Evansville.

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Medicare Enrollment Ends at Midnight [AUDIO]

By Daniel Sandoval December 7, 2011

More than 4,000 Wyomingites have saved money on prescription medications, usually about 600 dollars a year, through Medicare, but the open enrollment period ends tonight.

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Category: Casper News, Economy, Health, National News, Wyoming News Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, deadline, Medicare, midnight, Mike Fierberg, open enrollment, prescription drugs

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Whistleblower Alleges WMC Defrauded Medicare

By Associated Press October 26, 2011

CASPER, Wyo. --- Wyoming Medical Center altered hospital records to collect higher fees from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by having its records clerks change the admission status of patients, a whistleblower charges in a federal lawsuit unsealed this week

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Category: Associated Press, Crime, Economy, Health Tags: Dick Williams, fraud, Gale Bryden, Medicare, Vickie Diamond, whistleblower, WMC, Wyoming Medical Center

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Rural States to Lobby for Medicare Provision

By Associated Press October 17, 2011

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Health leaders from the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming plan to travel to the nation's capital this week to try to salvage future Medicare payments.

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Category: Associated Press, Health, National News, Politics, Wyoming News Tags: Medicare

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Medicare Fraud And What You Can Do About It [AUDIO]

By Brian Scott September 8, 2011

A recent crackdown by law enforcement, on a nationwide level, has resulted in charges being leveled against 91 people-including doctors and other medical professionals-with defrauding the Medicare system of over 295$ million in false billing.

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Category: Casper News Tags: fraud, jeff hinson, Medicare, senior medicare patrol

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EXCLUSIVE:US Senator John Barrasso With Brian Scott For An Hour Long Conversation[AUDIO]

By Brian Scott August 18, 2011

With the US Senate on their summer break, John Barrasso is spending alot of time in Wyoming attending events and hearing what his constituents have to say about his performance and the machinations of Washington D.C.

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