July 2017 – Page 11 – medicarereport.org

Fewer issuers apply to participate in Health Insurance Exchanges for 2018

(Source – www.cms.gov/Newsroom) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced 141 individual market qualified health plan (QHP)

Knowing the basics of Medicare is important to understanding how the program works. The attached article list some of the

(By Damian Garde and Adam Feurerstein for STAT) The FDA has weighed in on Novartis’ pioneering personalized cancer therapy, which

Unpaid caregivers provide nearly twice as many hours of care per week as paid caregivers according to the study “A

(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) For many consumers, an unexpected health care calamity can quickly burgeon into a financial

(By Michael Ollove for The Pew Charitable Trusts/Stateline) Jeannee Parker Martin’s mother will be 99 this year, and she still

(By Leo Vartorella for Becker’s Hospital Review) The country’s uninsured rate has risen to 11.7 percent after reaching a record

(By David Armstrong for STAT and Evan Allen for Boston Globe) Drug users, desperate to break addictions to heroin or

In a letter to Republican Senate leaders, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is urging them to adopt several important reform ideas

(By Adam Feuerstein for STAT) The FDA approved a new medicine Friday to reduce the complications associated with sickle cell