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  2. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It was begun in 1965 under the Social Security Administration and is now administered by the Centers ...

  3. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Wikipedia

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.

  4. Stark Law - Wikipedia

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    Stark Law is a set of United States federal laws that prohibit physician self-referral, specifically a referral by a physician of a Medicare or Medicaid patient to an entity for the provision of designated health services ("DHS") if the physician (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship with that entity. The term "referral ...

  5. Physician Payments Sunshine Act - Wikipedia

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    The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

  6. Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee

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    The Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee or Relative Value Update Committee (RUC, pronounced "ruck") is a volunteer group of 31 physicians who have made highly influential recommendations on how to value a physician's work when computing health care prices in the United States' public health insurance program Medicare.

  7. Physician Quality Reporting System - Wikipedia

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    Medicare providers (Physicians (Doctors of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine), Podiatry, Optometry, Oral Surgery, Dentistry, and Chiropractic) Practitioners (Physician ...

  8. Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act

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    American Hospital Association v. Becerra, No. 20-1114, 596 U.S. ___ (2022) The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, [ 1] also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA, is a federal law of the United States, enacted in 2003. [ 2] It produced the largest overhaul of Medicare in the public health program's 38-year ...

  9. 9 ways for early retirees to cover health care costs - AOL

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    Insurance from a part-time job. Another option for early retirees is to obtain health insurance through a part-time job, also known as the ‘Barista FIRE’ strategy within the Financial ...