Among other things, the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act authorized the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate the prices of a number of costly prescription...
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Medicare Advantage dental, vision and hearing benefits offer...
Medicare Advantage plans advertise their “extra” benefits as a way to lure in new enrollees. But, new research published in JAMA Network finds that Medicare Advantage dental...
Trump’s health care executive orders
As with many sectors of our economy, when it comes to health care you should expect a lot of changes from the Trump administration. And, based on Trump’s recent executive orders, millions of...
Medicare Advantage insurers are killing rural hospitals and...
Write-Off Warrior, a research and advocacy firm that supports rural health systems, just released “Preyed On: How Insurance Corporations are Bleeding Rural Hospitals and Communities to...
Want to live longer? Genes and lifestyle matter
Dana G. Smith reports for The New York Times on the extent to which you control how long you live. How much does a healthy lifestyle help and how much do your genes determine your fate? For sure, we...
The benefits of walking barefoot at home
Believe it or not, there are benefits to walking barefoot at home. Walking barefoot actually helps build muscular strength in your feet reports Anna Rahmanan for the Huffington Post. Walking barefoot...
2025: Take advantage of the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment...
If you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan, you should seriously consider taking advantage of the Medicare Advantage open enrollment period between January 1 and March 31 that allows you to switch to...
Oncologists report excessive deaths from prior authorization
A new survey from the American Society of Radiation Oncology illustrates the dangers of prior authorization. Prior authorization kills an “inordinate number” of people and harms others...
Why see a geriatrician?
Today, more than 55 million Americans are over 65. The US has an older population than it has ever had. Sadly, the physician population has not grown to meet the needs of older Americans reports...
How to make America healthy again
Adam Gaffney writes for In These Times about how to make America healthy again: A universal single-payer system. President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress is set to defund many...