One of the many benefits of Medicare is that your costs are the same no matter where you get care in a community. Consequently, people with Medicare do not have to “shop” for where they...
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UnitedHealth’s denials of critical rehab services is under...
Stat News reports on United HealthCare’s secret rules that deny Medicare Advantage enrollees critical and costly rehab care when they most need it. UnitedHealth literally singled out people...
Coronavirus: Beware of the latest Covid strain
If you’re careful and lucky, you have yet to fall prey to the latest strain of Covid hitting people in the US, JN.1. But, large numbers of Americans are coming down with it, reports Adriel...
For-profit hospitals urge CMS to hold Medicare Advantage plans...
Over the last several decades, US hospitals, particularly the for-profit hospitals, generally have not been the best of allies with the organizations representing people with Medicare and other...
Employer-based health care doesn’t work for people with...
About 60 percent of people who are not over 65 have employer-sponsored health insurance, reports the Kaiser Family Foundation. But, a significant portion of people eligible for employer coverage...
What’s long flu and are you at risk?
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about people with “long Covid,” who cannot shed the Covid virus and develop chronic and serious symptoms that can last a long time...
Humana sued for inappropriate Medicare Advantage care denials
Humana is the latest of the Medicare Advantage insurers to be sued for using AI to systematically deny care inappropriately. Tina Reed reports for Axios on a class action lawsuit filed in Kentucky...
Mental health treatment remains challenging to come by, even...
Notwithstanding federal law requiring “mental health parity”–insurance coverage for mental conditions–mental health treatment remains hard to come by in the US. Even with...
Dozens of drug companies owe Medicare rebates from raising...
The Biden Administration just announced that dozens of drug companies owe Medicare rebates from raising prices higher than the rate of inflation. As a result , hundreds of thousands of people with...
United Health now controls 1 in 10 physicians
Steph Weber reports for Medscape that UnitedHealthcare’s owner, UnitedHealth Group now controls–either owns or otherwise works with–one in ten physicians. Concerns are mounting...