Supreme Court backs HHS on Medicare payment to hospitals serving low-income patients
(by Andrew Cass for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Supreme Court sided with upheld the HHS approach to calculating certain Medicare
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Seniors With Prediabetes Should Eat Better, Get Moving, but Not Fret Too Much About Diabetes
(by Judith Graham on June 24, 2022 for Kaiser Health News) Almost half of older adults — more than 26
Read MoreHouse passes bill to create health agency focused on biomedical innovation
(by Mychael Schnell on 06/22/22 for Kaiser Health News) The House passed a bill on Wednesday to create a new
Read MorePatients losing access to physicians as telehealth access rolls back
(by Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review) State by state, telehealth access is rolling back as the pandemic-era emergency orders,
Read MoreA Look at Suicide Rates Ahead of 988 Launch—A National Three-Digit Suicide Prevention Hotline
(by Heather Saunders and Nirmita Panchal for KFF June 22, 2022) Nearly half a million lives (480,622) were lost to
Read MoreMark Cuban’s generic drug prices would save Medicare billions of dollars: Harvard study
(by Paige Twenter for Beckers Hospital Review) Medicare recipients could have saved up to $3.6 billion on generic drug costs
Read MoreNorth Carolina considers new laws to ‘de-weaponize’ medical debt and protect
(by Aneri Pattani for NPR) RALEIGH, N.C. — When Erin Williams-Reavis faced a $3,500 surgery bill, the hospital offered to
Read MoreLive Whole Health Episode 126: Introduction to Qigong
(Source-blog.va.gov) “What is all that noise down there?!” my teenage daughter shouted from her bedroom, as I was tidying up
Read MoreFAQs on Medicare Financing and Trust Fund Solvency
( by Juliette Cubanski and Tricia Neuman for Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jun 17, 2022) Medicare, the federal health insurance
Read MoreExpress Scripts’ $25 insulin cap led to lower costs, better adherence to diabetes treatment, study finds
(by Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Express Scripts’ $25 insulin cap program has slashed patient cost-sharing in half and
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