Poll: Most older Americans want Medicare to cover long-term care
CBS News- AP / May 26, 2017, 7:44 AM WASHINGTON -- A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older…
DOJ pursues UnitedHealth in second Medicare fraud suit
Axios- Bob Herman- May 17 The Department of Justice is intervening in a second whistleblower lawsuit that alleges UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance and services company in the country, has…
House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act
NY Times- By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR MAY 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act,…
New Medicare model for paying doctors passes key test
BY LAUREN CLASON, THE HILL EXTRA - 04/13/17 03:00 PM EDT A far-reaching Medicare payment proposal cleared a crucial hurdle this week, as the federal health program seeks to reward…
Major Changes May Be Coming to Medicare
Published: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT • Updated: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service What’s going to happen to Medicare?…
One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen
The Accenture study also finds that half of these victims were subject to medical identity theft and on average had to pay $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident. Healthcare IT…
Modernizing Medicare with the QPP
HBMA- Dr. Kate Goodrich- 03/13/2017 Modernizing Medicare with the QPP Keeping Medicare’s Promise to Families Today and Tomorrow By Kate Goodrich, Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), US Department…
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Medical Records
Crystal Lombardo- The Next Galaxy The advancement of technology has changed the way the entire world functions. One big change that has happened has to do with the medical world.…
Trump urges insurers to work together to ‘save Americans from Obamacare’
Will Obamacare survive? Washington Post - By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Juliet Eilperin February 27 at 12:19 PM President Trump met with major health insurers Monday morning, in the midst of…
The Trump administration just proposed big changes to Obamacare
Business Insider- Feb. 15, 2017, 9:54 AM- Bob Bryan The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday morning announced new proposed rules for the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance…
