Prepaid Medicare Granted
The government approved regulations allowing Medicare to pay health maintenance organizations in advance, a change expected to draw at least 200,000 elderly persons into the prepaid medical care programs over the next year. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the regulations, saying the new provisions should expand care available to Medicare recipients while reducing the cost to the federal government.
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