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CMS has denied Medicare coverage for weight loss drugs. The program still covers the drugs for diabetes but not weight loss.
For whatever reason CMS will increase payments to Medicare Advantage health plans by 5.06%, more than double the amount originally proposed only three months ago. This means there will be less money for those practicing private medicine and more physicians will be forced into corporate medicine. This will raise costs to the Medicare program considerably.
California has done it again. The inept Democratic controlled state has allowed a deadline to pass. The blown deadline means the state will lose matching funds and the promised raise increase for physicians seeing Medicaid patients will not occur. Will physicians who are not employees of hospitals or clinics continue to see these patients? Top
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