(By -Lucy Larner, healthaffairs.org) A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) addresses Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired

(Source – clermontsun.com) Just like Medicare – which celebrated its 50th Anniversary last week – prescription drugs have helped Americans live

(By –  Debra McCurdy, Reed Smith) Today CMS published its final rule updating payment policies and rates for the Medicare Inpatient Psychiatric

(By – Northeast Times Staff, boyle.house.gov) Con­gress­man Brendan Boyle joined a bi­par­tis­an co­ali­tion on Ju­ly 28 to in­tro­duce the Medi­care Com­mon

(By – Linda Qiu, www.politifact.com) Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee accused “illegals, prostitutes, pimps, (and) drug dealers” of freeloading off the

(By – Diane Wagner, via www.northwestgeorgianews.com) Floyd County’s two hospitals are among the 67 percent in Georgia that will pay a

(By – Adam Smeltz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Medicine has changed a lot since the 1960s, but Medicare still has in place