Older adults — and their families — often find it challenging and stressful to find the best facility. And they often end up in the wrong spot, new research shows.
Category: Health Insurance
As Sanders Officially Revives Medicare-For-All, Plan B For Democrats Gains Traction
“Medicare for America” seeks to avoid some of the predictable obstacles of a full-blown expansion of Medicare. Can it survive the politics of health reform?
UnitedHealthcare expands bundled payments to Medicare Advantage
Providers in more than 30 states may participate in bundled payments for eight medical procedures.
Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University partner for new academic health system
Plans include a new medical school in Charlotte that will expand patient-centered research currently in place in Winston-Salem.
Mothers in Medicaid may have higher C-section infection risk than those with private insurance
Mothers delivering via cesarean section covered by Medicaid had a 1.4 fold increase in infection compared to those covered by private insurance.
FBI, DOJ bust 24 people in $1.2 billion telemedicine fraud scheme
The scheme preyed upon hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled patients, DOJ says.
Walgreens and VillageMD partner on primary care
The Village Medical at Walgreens clinics will operate next to the retail pharmacies, providing primary care integrated with the pharmacy as well as nurses and social workers.
Physician pay increases, but gender gap widens and administrative burden increases, Medscape shows
Physician salaries average $313,000 this year, up from $299,999 in 2018 — a more than 20 percent increase since 2015.
GOP-led ‘repeal and replace’ ACA debate already impacting women’s health, study finds
Searches for IUDs were 15 percent higher than expected following the 2016 election — 10 to 21 million more searches than normal.
PBM execs say competition, biosimilars are solutions to lowering drug prices
The rebate rule will not solve the drug affordability problem, PBM executives told the Senate Finance Committee.
