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Jul , 2024
Biden Administration Tightens Broker Access To Healthcare.Gov To Thwart Rogue Sign-Ups
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Biden Administration Tightens Broker Access To Healthcare.Gov To Thwart Rogue Sign-Ups

The Biden administration on Friday put in place stringent curbs aimed at thwarting rogue insurance brokers from switching consumers’ Affordable Care Act plans without their consent. The announcement came in response to mounting complaints from consumers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Friday that, in the first six months of the year, more […]

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Jul , 2024
Misleading ads play key role in schemes to gin up unauthorized ACA sign-ups, lawsuit alleges
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Misleading ads play key role in schemes to gin up unauthorized ACA sign-ups, lawsuit alleges

The government is giving away money! So say ads on a variety of social media platforms. Consumers, the ads claim, can qualify for $1,400 or even $6,400 a month to use on groceries, rent, medical expenses, and other bills. Some mention no-cost health insurance coverage. But that’s not the whole story. And here’s the spoiler […]

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Jul , 2024
States set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Residents suffer when rules are ignored or waived.
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States set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Residents suffer when rules are ignored or waived.

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiotics he was taking made him need to go to the […]

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Jun , 2024
SCOTUS rejects abortion pill challenge — for now
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SCOTUS rejects abortion pill challenge — for now

The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in […]

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Feb , 2024
Biden wins early court test for Medicare drug negotiations
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Biden wins early court test for Medicare drug negotiations

A federal judge in Texas has turned back the first challenge to the nascent Medicare prescription-drug negotiation program. But the case turned on a technicality, and drugmakers have many more lawsuits in the pipeline. Meanwhile, Congress is approaching yet another funding deadline, and doctors hope the next funding bill will cancel the Medicare pay cut […]

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Jan , 2024
CDC report highlights urgent need for guideline adherence in prescribing antifungal medications
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CDC report highlights urgent need for guideline adherence in prescribing antifungal medications

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently assessed prescription volumes, rates, and costs for topical antifungal medications in the context of the recent emergence of severe antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections in the United States. The study is published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. ​​​​​​​Study: ­­­­­­Topical Antifungal Prescribing for Medicare […]

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Nov , 2023
Cardiac rehabilitation still underutilized despite proven benefits
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Cardiac rehabilitation still underutilized despite proven benefits

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Consistent evidence gathered over many years supports the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation, including decreases in mortality and hospitalizations, and increase in quality of life. In one study of 601,099 Medicare patients older than 65 years with coronary disease, 5-year mortality was lower in patients […]

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Oct , 2023
Millions of Americans with mild cognitive impairment are undiagnosed, studies find
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Millions of Americans with mild cognitive impairment are undiagnosed, studies find

For many people, forgetting your keys or struggling to plan tasks can seem like a normal part of the aging process. But those lapses can actually be symptoms of something more serious: mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, which could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, most people who have MCI don’t know it, […]

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Oct , 2023
UCSF dementia experts to join peers at annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s disease conference
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UCSF dementia experts to join peers at annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s disease conference

Dementia experts from UC San Francisco will join their peers from around the globe at the annual Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference in Boston from Oct. 24 to 27. Presentations cover breakthroughs in therapies that clear amyloid – a hallmark of Alzheimer’s – and a symposium on patients with early Alzheimer’s symptoms who […]

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Oct , 2023
Feds hope to cut sepsis deaths by hitching Medicare payments to treatment stats
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Feds hope to cut sepsis deaths by hitching Medicare payments to treatment stats

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he arrived at the emergency room with foot pain. Smith said his wife “slowly started filling me […]
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