Medicare To Offer Help To Some Seniors When Advantage Plans Drop Doctors
In 2015, some seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans will be allowed to switch if they lose their doctors.
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In 2015, some seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans will be allowed to switch if they lose their doctors.
Medicare is reducing payments to 721 hospitals with high rates of infections or other medical complications. About 1,400 hospitals, including all in Maryland, are excluded from the program and Medicare did not assess their rates of patient harm.
The 1 percent penalty, mandated by the health law, will hit one of every seven hospitals in the country and fall particularly hard on academic medical centers.
The federal government has invested $15 million in a North Carolina experiment that gives community pharmacists a new role in patient care.
The recent death of Joan Rivers, who suffered cardiac arrest at a center in New York, highlights some of the concerns among consumer advocates.
Although egg freezing is the perk du jour at some high profile companies, too often such options are not available, even for women with serious illnesses such as cancer.
The data comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks six types of frequently occurring infections in hospitals as part of an effort to reduce them.
For-profit carriers complain the upstarts have an unfair edge because of low-interest federal loans.
Almost all large employers offer at least one wellness plan, but studies showing these efforts really save money are scarce.
Surging contracts related to the Affordable Care Act have helped make the Department of Health and Human Services a fount of revenue for private business.
The report credits slower growth in spending for private health insurance, Medicare, hospitals, physicians and clinical services.
In Chicago, data analytics methods once used in political campaigns helped identify women needing mammograms.
More insurers selling Affordable Care Act plans will charge consumers higher rates for medicines that treat multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C and other serious illnesses, Avalere studies say.
Advocates say many poor seniors who need dialysis and cancer treatments will have few transportation options.
In counties that are adding at least one insurer next year, average premiums for the least expensive silver plan are rising 1 percent on average, compared to 7 percent in counties where the number of insurers is not changing, KHN analysis finds.
The new requirements for electronic medical records and other technological upgrades can be a heavy burden for Alaska’s small medical practices and aging physician workforce.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can fill some primary care gaps, but specialists say an aging population will need more intensive care.
Spending on drugs by Ascension, a large Midwestern health care system, has increased $36 million in the last year -- with two-thirds of that attributed to costlier generics.
Increases are expected to moderate as more brand-name drug patents expire and the impact of the liver disease treatments lessens.
Consumers who get health insurance through their employers need to pay close attention this year to their enrollment materials.
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