Tag: Medicare

“Oh my God, we dropped her!” Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her behalf right side where her hip had been recently replaced. She cried out in pain. A medical facility clinician later discovered her hip was dislocated. That wasn't the only […]

As a part of President Donald Trump's blueprint to bring down prescription costs, Medicare officials have warned insurers that “gag orders” keeping pharmacists from alerting seniors that they could save money if you are paying cash – instead of using their insurance – are “unacceptable and contrary” towards the government's effort to advertise price transparency. […]

One of the largest pain management groups in the Southeast is closing multiple clinics amid worsening financial troubles along with a federal criminal investigation that targeted its former leader. This week, Tennessee-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists advised patients and employees about clinic closures, leaving patients scrambling to locate new doctors willing to prescribe them opioids, based […]

Como parte del plan del presidente Donald Trump para bajar los precios de los medicamentos recetados, funcionarios de Medicare advirtieron a las aseguradoras que las “órdenes mordaza”, que estas compa~nías imponen a los farmacéuticos, son “inaceptables y contrarias” al esfuerzo del gobierno para promover la transparencia. Las órdenes mordaza previenen que los farmacéuticos le puedan […]

This week, I taken care of immediately readers who have been unhappy using their health plan's decision to not pay an emergency department surcharge for after-hours care and worried about difficulties getting Medicare to pay for claims unrelated to a workers' compensation injury. Another reader asked about a recently announced hardship exemption from the requirement […]

Medicare's financial condition has taken a turn for that worse due to predicted higher hospital spending and lower tax revenues that fund this program, the us government reported Tuesday. In its annual are accountable to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said the program’s hospital insurance trust fund could run out of money by 2026 […]

Marilyn Bartlett, the director administrator of Montana's Health Care and Benefits Division, recalls thinking “holy cow” when she got an urgent directive from state legislators in late 2021: “You need to get these costs in check, otherwise.” Increasing health care costs within the state workers' health plan were helping hold down workers' wages. The plan's […]

Every year, seniors can opt from a Medicare Advantage plan and subscriber to original Medicare during open enrollment season, which begins on Oct. 15. But unexpected problems can arise with this particular change. Notably, seniors who wish to return to original Medicare might not be in a position to purchase Medigap, also referred to as […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Stepping into the land of the Trump resistance, Seema Verma flatly rejected California's pursuit of single-payer healthcare as unworkable and dismissed the Affordable Care Act as too flawed to ever succeed. Speaking Wednesday at the Commonwealth Club here, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said she supports granting […]

Dr. Rob Davidson, an urgent situation physician from western Michigan, had never considered running for Congress. Then came February 2021. The 46-year-old Democrat found himself at a local town-hall meeting going toe-to-toe with Rep. Bill Huizenga, his Republican congressman from the previous six years. “I told him about my patients,” Davidson recalled. “I see, every […]