Sentence examples for medicare used from inspiring English sources

George W. Bush vs. John Kerry, 2004: "The issue of Medicare used to be called Medi-scare, people didn't want to touch it for fear of getting hurt politically".

By one count, 33 different care programs within Medicare used a combined 1,676 reporting measures last year, and about half of those measures were unique to just one program.

According to depositions by a St. Barnabas consultant and two former employees, which were filed in the settlement, the drive for profits soon affected the Medicare billing, and hospital administrators found a way to capitalize on a loophole in the formula Medicare used to determine reimbursements in outlier cases.

Medicare used 53 criteria to rate 459 health plans last year and gave their top plans five stars.

Medicare uses a fee schedule to pay doctors.

Mr. Kennedy called the legislation a dangerous attempt to privatize Medicare, "using our seniors as guinea pigs".

Currently Social Security and Medicare use 8.5% of nonentitle­ment revenues (federal revenues dedicated to all other programs besides the two).

Overseas tourists, illegals and those not entitled to Medicare use their family's card or a friend's card.

Hospitals fear that 'pay for performance' could become punitive, if Medicare uses it as a tool to ratchet down payments".

Because the formula Medicare uses takes into account hospital prices in calculating these payments, Medicare reimbursements at a group of Tenet hospitals have risen sharply in recent years.

Medicare uses different fee schedules and formulas to pay for services provided in doctors' offices and in hospital clinics.