Health care providers are, in effect, competing with beneficiaries for the same pot of Medicare money.

Other doctors have been required to return Medicare money they were paid for treatment deemed unnecessary or improper.

As a condition of getting Medicare money, he said, hospitals will have to comply with reporting requirements in their states.

Hospital officials said today that they would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare money under the president's proposal.

His concerns were reflected in a proposal to provide teaching hospitals with a big infusion of Medicare money.

Tenet will not lose Medicare money, civil settlement with the federal government.

Congress had agreed to provide $30 billion of additional Medicare money over the next five years, but the administration wanted several billion dollars more.

The Medicare money had been part of a bill that would cut taxes and raise the minimum wage.

Advocates say the change would bring in Medicare money that would help hold down the bills of all patients.

That's like saying we should withhold life-saving treatment from senior citizens in order to save Medicare money.