A New Paradigm Is Needed: Top Experts Question the Value of Advance Care Planning
For decades, Americans have been urged to fill out documents specifying their end-of-life wishes. Now, experts say those efforts should ...
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Nursing Homes Bleed Staff as Amazon Lures Low-Wage Workers With Prime Packages
Already buckling from an exodus of pandemic-weary health care workers, nursing homes are losing entry-level nurses, dietary aides and housekeepers drawn to ...
Seeking Refills: Aging Pharmacists Leave Drugstores Vacant in Rural America
Attracting new pharmacists to independent drugstores, especially to rural settings, is difficult. More communities may lose their only drugstore.
Post-Pandemic, What’s a Phone Call From Your Physician Worth?
Should insurers pay for “audio-only” visits? And, if they do, should they pay the same reimbursement rate as when a ...
Researcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original ...
Medicare Enrollment Blitz Doesn’t Include Options to Move Into Medigap
Those who have instead opted for traditional Medicare face a critical decision about private insurance. Too often the import of ...
Few Acute Care Hospitals Escaped Readmissions Penalties
Various analyses have found many readmissions within a month of discharge might have been avoided through better care and more ...
Medicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions
The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments ...
Democrats’ Plans to Expand Medicare Benefits May Pinch Advantage Plans’ Funding
One Medicare advocacy group is airing messages aimed at alarming the public and encouraging Congress not to make cuts to ...
The Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views
As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of ...