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Eileen Cook February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 ACA, Elections, Healthcare Costs

Health Care Costs Top the Public’s List of Financial Worries, and Those Who Are Struggling the Most Want to Hear Presidential Candidates Discuss Economic and Health Care Issues

(By Craig Palosky for The Kaiser Family Foundation published February 21, 2024) At a time when kitchen table economic problems

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Eileen Cook February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Veterans, Veterans Health care, Veterans Suicide Prevention

What to expect when you connect with suicide prevention coordinator

(Source – news.va.gov) If you’re having thoughts of suicide, you may feel isolated and alone and think no one understands

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Eileen Cook February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 medicare, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults, Postacute care

Medicare Advantage enrollees receive less postacute care: Study

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Medicare Advantage enrollees received less intensive postacute care than their counterparts in traditional

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Eileen Cook February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 Consolidation, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare redesign

In California, Faceoff Between Major Insurer and Health System Shows Hazards of Consolidation

(By Annie Sciacca for KFF Health News) For weeks, more than half a million Anthem Blue Cross enrollees who receive

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Eileen Cook February 20, 2024 Homeless Veterans, HPACT, Medical Mobile Unit, Veterans, Veterans Health care

Bay Pines VA expands service to unhoused Veterans

(Source – news.va.gov) In early January, Bay Pines VA’s Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (HPACT) brought the organization’s Mobile Medical

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Eileen Cook February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Higher Utilization, Medicare Advantage

Payers urge ‘stability’ from CMS on Medicare Advantage

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS needs to do more to account for rising utilization rates in Medicare

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Eileen Cook February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare redesign, Hospital at Home

9 health systems newly approved for ‘hospital at home’

(By Giles Bruce for Becker’s Hospital Review) While some health systems have been apprehensive about setting up hospital-at-home programs because

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Eileen Cook February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 Drug Ads, FDA, Senate, Social Media

Senators to FDA: Take action on proliferation of social media drug ads

(By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review) Senators are urging the FDA to update decade-old guidance and take action to

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Eileen Cook February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 Healthcare Costs, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, medicare, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Patients for Affordable Drugs, Pharma

Patients See First Savings From Biden’s Drug Price Push, as Pharma Lines Up Its Lawyers

(By Arthur Allen for KFF Health News) Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst,

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Eileen Cook February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 Food Insecurity, Veterans, Veterans Health care

South Texas VA fights food insecurity with community support

(Source – news.va.gov) A VA Hunger Awareness Resource event collaborated to fight Veteran food insecurity in South Texas. This successful

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