Category: Medicare

The authorities accelerated its crackdown on nursing facilities that go days with no rn by downgrading the rankings of a tenth of the nation's homes on Medicare's consumer website, new records show. In its update in April to Nursing Home Compare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave its lowest star rating for staffing […]

The 50-something man with a shaved head and brown eyes was unresponsive once the paramedics wheeled him into the er. His pockets were empty: no wallet, no cellphone, not a single scrap of paper that may reveal his identity towards the nurses and doctors trying to save his life. His body lacked any distinguishing scars […]

Private health insurance plans in 2021 paid more than twice what Medicare would have for all those same health care services, says a sweeping new study from Rand Corp., a respected research organization. Its study, which examines payment rates by private insurers in 25 states to at least one,600 hospitals, shines light right into a […]

The healthcare debate has Democrats on Capitol Hill and also the presidential campaign trail facing renewed pressure to make clear where they stand: Are they for “Medicare for All”? Or can they occupy the push to safeguard the Affordable Care Act? Obamacare advocates have found a powerful ally in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who in […]

El hombre de 50 a~nos con la cabeza rapada y los ojos marrones no reaccionó cuando los paramédicos lo llevaron a la sala de emergencias. Sus bolsillos estaban vacíos: ni billetera, ni teléfono, ni un solo trozo de papel que pudiera revelar su identidad a las enfermeras y médicos que estaban tratando de salvarle la […]

Sheri Lewis, 59, of Seattle, needed a hip transplant. Bradley Fuller, 63, of nearby Kirkland, needed chemotherapy and radiation when the pain in his jaw ended up being throat cancer. And Kim Bruzas, 55, of Waitsburg, hundreds of miles away, needed emergency choose to stop sudden -and severe – rectal bleeding. Each of those Washington […]

For the first time, the federal government is shining a spotlight around the quality of rehabilitation care at nursing homes – services utilized by nearly Two million seniors each year. Medicare's Nursing Home Compare website now includes a “star rating” (a composite way of measuring quality) for rehab services – skilled nursing care and physical, […]

As requires radical health reform grow louder, many around the right, within the center and in the health care industry are arguing that proposals like “Medicare for All” would cause economic ruin, decimating a sector that is representative of nearly 20% of our economy. While exploring a presidential run, former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz called […]

A medida que aumentan las voces por una reforma radical del sistema de salud, muchos del espectro político de derecha, del centro, y de la industria de la atención de salud argumentan que las propuestas como “Medicare para todos” causarán la ruina económica, diezmando un sector que representa casi el 20% en economía. Mientras exploraba […]

Elham Mirshafiei was at the library cramming for final exams during her senior year at California State University-Long Beach when she grew nauseated and started vomiting. After the 10th episode within an hour, a buddy took her towards the nearest er. Diagnosis: an intestinal bug and severe dehydration. In a few hours, she was home […]