What is Your Medicare Lifetime Benefit?
Medicare lifetime benefit for an average single male’s lifetime $180,000 and for a single female $207,000 (due to longer life expectancy).
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Month: June 2016
Public Opinion versus Science
In David Gortler a former Federal Drug Administration (FDA) medical officer and senior medical analyst, commentary states “I don’t always
Read MoreT-cell Therapies Hopefully Soon
Both Kite Pharma Inc. and Juno Therapeutics Inc., announced Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical
Read MoreRegulators Probing Whether Health Net Is Stiffing Drug Treatment Providers
(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News) California insurance officials are looking into whether Health Net Inc. has improperly withheld
Read MoreStemExpress Sold Baby Body Parts for 4 to 6 Times Cost, House Probe Alleges
(By Kelsey Harkness for The Daily Signal) Republicans on a special House panel investigating the market for fetal tissue released
Read MoreCrackdown on Medicare Ambulance Fraud Producing Results, HHS Reports
Southeast Pennsylvania has been a focal point for Health and Human Services in the rooting out of fraudulent ambulance billing.
Read MoreAre We Close To Creating Synthetic Humans?
In an article published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Science, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, states a
Read MoreIs Your Physician Only Looking at Your Weight?
Dr. Michelle May, a family medicine physician affiliated with Health At Every Size, a group advocating for a weight-inclusive approach
Read MoreWill There Be New Antibiotics?
Is this the end to the Antibiotic Era? Are there new antibiotics in the drug pipeline? The answer to both
Read MoreDetails On Death Certificates Offer Layers Of Clues To Opioid Epidemic
(By Jeff Cohen, WNPR for Kaiser Health News) Dr. James Gill walked through the morgue in Farmington, Connecticut, recently, past
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