Medicare Fraud Convictions Result in Prison Terms for Mother and Two Daughters (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
The owners of four Miami-based healthcare corporations were sentenced and remanded to prison yesterday for their roles in schemes to defraud the Medicare program, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today. Collectively, the three defendants through their companies ...

City hospital in jeopardy of fund loss (The Williamsport Sun-Gazette)
U.S. Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., has vowed to revive legislation that restores Williamsport Hospital's adjusted funding for Medicare dollars. The bill, barely defeated this week by the Senate, included the Section 508 Medicare issue as well as a number of other measures designed to help rural and other health care institutions, he said. "Part of it dealt with the 508 legislation," he said.

Medicare Part D plagues system (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
BARRE -- It's no secret that Medicare Part D, the private-sector prescription drug program that was rolled out in 2006, got off to a rocky start. Elderly beneficiaries struggled to make sense of a multitude of bewildering plans. Pharmacists phoned Medicare for information and endured interminable waits. Many patients whose prescriptions had been paid for under Medicaid couldn't get them filled. ...