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Eileen Cook March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 Integrated TeleOT, Telehealth, VA Video Connect, Veterans, Veterans Health care

Integrated TeleOT provides virtual occupational therapy

(Source – news.va.gov) Veterans leaving a care facility and returning home may need to adjust their living space or lifestyle

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Eileen Cook March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 Healthcare Costs, Married Couples, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults

When it comes to Medicare Advantage, couples stick together

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Older couples typically enroll and disenroll in Medicare Advantage plans together, a study

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Eileen Cook March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 Aging, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medical Care, medicare, Older Adults

The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients

(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News) Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in

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Eileen Cook March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Change Attack, Cyberattack, House Oversight Committee, Lack of Transparency

Lack of transparency ‘handcuffed’ feds’ Change hack response, lawmaker says

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Lawmakers are questioning UnitedHealth Group’s response to the cyberattack that took Change Healthcare’s

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Eileen Cook March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Homelessness, HUD-VASH, Veteran homelessness, Veterans, Veterans Health care

Greater LA VA houses 1,790 homeless Veterans in 2023

(Source – news.va.gov) In greater Los Angeles, VA permanently housed 1,790 homeless Veterans in 2023, the most of any VA

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Eileen Cook March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 CMS, Fair Share Spending, Healthcare Finance, Hospital Charity Care, Nonprofit hospitals, Uninsured

20 hospitals, systems where charity care exceeds tax breaks

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Lown Institute, a nonpartisan healthcare think tank, released a new report March

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CMSHealth Care FinanceMedicare - GeneralPart D/Prescription Drugs
Eileen Cook March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 CMS, Drugs for Weight Loss, GLP-1s drugs, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Part D, Ozempic

Gross Medicare Spending on Ozempic and Other GLP-1s Is Already Skyrocketing – Even Though Medicare Cannot Cover The Drugs for Weight Loss

(By Chris Lee for The Kaiser Family Foundation published March 23, 2024) A KFF analysis shows that gross total Medicare

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Eileen Cook March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 AI, Algorithms Factor, Lawsuit, Medicare Advantage

Humana wants Medicare Advantage AI lawsuit thrown out

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Humana is seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging the insurer used

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Eileen Cook March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Biotech Invivyd, COVID-19, FDA, Immune compromised, Pemgarda

FDA authorizes new drug to protect immune compromised from Covid-19

(By Jason Mast for STAT) The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized a new antibody to protect immunocompromised individuals

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Medicare - GeneralMedicare AdvantagePrimary Care
Eileen Cook March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 CMS, Commonwealth Fund, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Older Adults, Primary Care

3 ways Medicare Advantage affects primary care physicians

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) There are few statistically significant differences between the way primary care physicians treat

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