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Low-income Medicare patients are less likely to get their annual wellness vist

A new Health Affairs study finds Medicare’s annual wellness visits are less likely to occur at physician practices with low-income,

(By Ina Jaffe for NPR) A study published Monday by Human Rights Watch finds that about 179,000 nursing home residents are being given antipsychotic

(By Steven Findlay for Kaiser Health News) As lawmakers face another deadline this week for passing legislation to keep the

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Department of Justice requested additional information from CVS Health and Aetna as

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 53 children who have died of the flu

If you are joining Medicare after 2019, your options for Medigap coverage will be reduced. Two of the most popular

(By Allison Aubrey for NPR) To age well, we must eat well — there’s been a lot of evidence that

(By Bruce Horovitz for Kaiser Health News) If people can age with class, then Harlene Goodrich, 80, and Dorothy Kelly,

(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Of January’s 116 total data breaches, healthcare accounted for 31 of them, or

(By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker’s Hospital Review) The majority of radiology leaders see potential in using machine learning capabilities