Hackernews posts about Medicare

Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people aged 65 and older, certain younger people with disabilities, and those with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant).

1. DOJ Investigates Medicare Billing Practices at UnitedHealth (www.wsj.com)
   50 points by Jimmc414 about 20 hours ago | 12 comments
2. Doge Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud (www.wsj.com)
   9 points by impish9208 17 days ago | 2 comments
3. How Health Insurers Racked Up Billions in Extra Payments from Medicare Advantage (www.wsj.com)
   5 points by matco11 10 days ago | 1 comments
4. DOJ Investigates Medicare Billing Practices at UnitedHealth (www.wsj.com)
   4 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 2 comments
5. How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (www.nytimes.com)
   119 points by erickhill 7 days ago | 99 comments
6. Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?
   23 points by basementcat 4 days ago | 11 comments
7. Ask HN: Why don't we all take care of ourselves?
   3 points by devinc_heyo 35 minutes ago | 8 comments
8. Trump official calls Social Security 'wrong' with groundwork for cuts (www.independent.co.uk)
   23 points by throw0101a 1 day ago | 14 comments
9. New Hampshire man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney (medicalxpress.com)
   2 points by PaulHoule about 17 hours ago | 2 comments
10. Show HN: TimeRetain – A browser-based personal time tracker, no sign-up needed (timeretain.com)
    60 points by heresjohnny 5 days ago | 26 comments
11. Ask HN: Any interest in cheap High Performance Computing?
    1 points by v-yanakiev about 7 hours ago | 1 comments
12. Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care (www.statnews.com)
    247 points by danso almost 2 years ago | 207 comments
13. Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead (hartmannreport.com)
    244 points by MilnerRoute almost 2 years ago | 187 comments
14. Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations (apnews.com)
    188 points by geox about 1 month ago | 329 comments
15. Feds killed 2014 plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling (kffhealthnews.org)
    121 points by consumer451 6 months ago | 75 comments
16. Drugmakers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ to halt Medicare price negotiations (www.nytimes.com)
    115 points by SeanBoocock over 1 year ago | 104 comments
17. Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage (theconversation.com)
    95 points by paulpauper 3 months ago | 106 comments
18. Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules (www.kff.org)
    91 points by cwwc 10 months ago | 209 comments
19. How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid (www.cnbc.com)
    82 points by latchkey almost 2 years ago | 72 comments
20. Medicare Advantage increasingly popular with seniors but not hospitals, doctors (kffhealthnews.org)
    58 points by mooreds about 1 year ago | 121 comments
21. Older Americans say they feel trapped in Medicare Advantage plans (text.npr.org)
    41 points by rawgabbit about 1 year ago | 43 comments
22. Trump Picks TV's Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid (www.reuters.com)
    35 points by gniting 3 months ago | 23 comments
23. US expects billions in savings from first Medicare drug price cuts (www.reuters.com)
    35 points by pcurve 6 months ago | 4 comments
24. Drugmakers want to stop Medicare from negotiating prices (www.cnn.com)
    34 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 10 comments
25. Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug (www.wsj.com)
    32 points by JumpCrisscross 3 months ago | 55 comments
26. The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare (www.wsj.com)
    26 points by IG_Semmelweiss 7 months ago | 69 comments
27. Insurers Pocketed $50B from Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated (www.wsj.com)
    26 points by impish9208 8 months ago | 2 comments
28. Health insurers can't rely on AI to decide Medicare coverage (mashable.com)
    21 points by pg_1234 about 1 year ago | 1 comments
29. VA hospitals are outperforming private hospitals, latest Medicare survey shows (www.npr.org)
    19 points by andsoitis over 1 year ago | discuss
30. For-Profit 'Medicare Advantage' Plans Using AI for Denials (www.commondreams.org)
    12 points by MilnerRoute over 1 year ago | 3 comments
31. UnitedHealthcare accused of relying on AI algorithms to deny Medicare claims (www.foxbusiness.com)
    11 points by sensanaty 3 months ago | 2 comments
32. U.S. Announces First Drugs Picked for Medicare Price Negotiations (www.nytimes.com)
    10 points by woodruffw over 1 year ago | 2 comments
33. RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians (www.washingtonpost.com)
    7 points by elsewhen 3 months ago | 5 comments
34. Drug makers have tripled the prices of top Medicare drugs (arstechnica.com)
    7 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 1 comments
35. UnitedHealth's Army of Doctors Helped It Collect Billions More from Medicare (www.wsj.com)
    6 points by impish9208 about 2 months ago | 1 comments
36. Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube (www.404media.co)
    6 points by nickthegreek about 1 year ago | 1 comments
37. A Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes (www.propublica.org)
    6 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | discuss
38. Antitrust cops should be going after Medicare, not Google (thehill.com)
    5 points by howard941 6 months ago | discuss
39. The Medicare Bubble Has Burst (www.wsj.com)
    5 points by thelastgallon 9 months ago | discuss
40. Medicare negotiating drug prices will likely save the U.S. billions, study says (www.nbcnews.com)
    5 points by paulpauper almost 2 years ago | discuss
41. Serving a billion web requests with boring code (medicare.gov) (notes.billmill.org)
    4 points by zishha1b0njq 4 months ago | 1 comments