Category: Medicare

When Mary Kay Gilbert saw her doctor in May for a skin infection on her leg, she wasn't surprised to get a prescription to have an antibiotic cream. But Gilbert, 54, a nurse and health consultant, was shocked when her physician visited the desktop computer and told Gilbert the medicine would cost $30 on her […]

As House Democrats hash out a proposal empowering the federal government's top health official to barter lower drug prices, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi takes it one step further and pushing a plan that may benefit even those Americans with private health insurance. A draft plan spearheaded, but not yet released, by Pelosi along with other […]

On Thursday, the 2nd nights the very first Democratic primary debate, 10 presidential hopefuls took happens and health issues became an early flashpoint. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opened the controversy calling health care a “human right” – which was echoed by a number of other candidates – and saying “we have to pass a ‘Medicare […]

Older adults worried about falling typically receive general advice: Take an exercise class. Get the vision checked. Quit taking medications for sleep. Install grab bars in the bathroom. A new study suggests that kind of advice hasn't turned out to be extremely effective: Nearly three times more adults age 75 and older died from falls […]

During Wednesday night's Democratic presidential primary debate – the first in a two-night event viewed as the de facto launch of the primary season – health policies, which range from “Medicare for All” to efforts to curb skyrocketing drug prices, were one of the key issues the 10 hopeful candidates onstage accustomed to help differentiate […]

With the very first Democratic debates per week away, health care is the top issue the party's voters say they need candidates to deal with, according to a poll released Tuesday. But what they mean with that varies widely. Nearly 9 out of 10 Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents said it is essential for candidates to […]

EASTON, Pa. – Walk into a big-box retailer for example Walmart or Michaels and you're likely to see MCS Industries' picture frames, decorative mirrors or kitschy wall décor. Adjacent to some dairy farm a few miles west of downtown Easton, MCS is the nation's largest maker of such household items. But MCS doesn't actually make […]

At least a quarter of the million Medicare beneficiaries may receive bills for as many as five months of premiums they thought they already paid. But they shouldn’t toss the letter within the garbage. It’s not a scam or a mistake. Because of what the Social Security Administration calls “a processing error” that took place […]

Por lo menos un cuarto de millón de beneficiarios de Medicare pueden recibir facturas de hasta cinco meses de primas que pensaban que ya habían pagado. No deben tirar la carta a la basura. No se trata de una estafa. En enero, ocurrió lo que la Administración del Seguro Social (SSA, por sus siglas en […]

Amazon ha abierto una nueva frontera de atención médica: ahora se puede utilizar Alexa para transmitir datos de pacientes. Utilizando esta nueva función, que Amazon calificó como una “habilidad”, una compa~nía llamada Livongo permitirá a los pacientes con diabetes, a los que llama “miembros”, usar el dispositivo para “consultar su última lectura de azúcar en […]