TRAVELLING ABROAD? CHECK YOUR HEALTH COVERAGE FIRST!
(Source – blog.medicare.gov) If you’re travelling abroad, there’s a lot to do before you leave. There are suitcases to pack,
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Month: June 2018
How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
(By Fred Schulte for Kaiser Health News) Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its
Read MoreCMS issues guide on leveraging Medicaid to combat opioid addiction
(By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS on June 11 released a guidance to help states leverage Medicaid and ensure they
Read MoreApple Watch could soon be able to detect, monitor Parkinson’s disease
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Apple is opening up a new “movement disorder” application programming interface to help
Read MoreMedicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients
(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News) “Oh my God, we dropped her!” Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing
Read MoreBoeing, Cisco, Intel and Walmart are bypassing insurers to drive down healthcare costs
(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) Spending on employee health benefits has risen about 5 percent annually in recent
Read MoreMedicare’s blueprint to tackle the opioid crisis
In 2016, more than 42,000 Americans died as a result of opioid use and of those, 40 percent involved a
Read MoreMaryland Total Cost of Care Model
CMS announced it is allowing Maryland to expand its All-Payer Program to outpatient services. The Maryland Total Cost of Care
Read MoreA serious new hurdle for CRISPR: Edited cells might cause cancer, two studies find
(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Editing cells’ genomes with CRISPR-Cas9 might increase the risk that the altered cells, intended to treat disease,
Read MoreMedicare Advantage members are using digital health tools
Although a 77 percent of Medicare Advantage members are using mHealth tools to monitor chronic health conditions; however, the same
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