Healthcare and Caregiving News

Across the country, medical directors of skilled nursing and long-term care sites say they’ve been scrambling to obtain doses of...

Health equity advocates see President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide dental coverage to...

The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments...

One Medicare advocacy group is airing messages aimed at alarming the public and encouraging Congress not to make cuts to...

Despite the high-powered advertising of the Medicare Advantage plans, beneficiaries still generally end up with significant out-of-pocket costs for vision...

Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until now, there...

Ageism in health care settings is a long-standing problem that’s getting new attention during the pandemic.

As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of...

Many people in their 50s, 60s and 70s facing big changes as their primary physicians retire. A decade from now,...