Stat News reports on a rise in ketamine prescriptions via telehealth companies and the risk these prescriptions pose. Telehealth can save patients time and get them access to medical help they might...
Diane Archer
It’s Medicare Open Enrollment: To save money and avoid big...
The Medicare Annual Open Enrollment Period is underway through December 7. You could save a lot of money and headache if you check out your options. Most people don’t tend to switch Medicare...
HCA hospital system is charged with overtreating patients to...
Last week, I wrote about a hospital that incorrectly charged a patient for a costly service it did not render and only corrected the charge a year later, as a result of intensive efforts on the part...
How to ensure your hospital bill is correct
Most of us do not check our health care bills too carefully. We do as we are told by the doctors and hospitals and pay our insurance deductibles and copays largely without questioning the bills. It...
New Medicare Advantage rules won’t stop the misleading...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversees Medicare, is implementing new rules regarding marketing of Medicare Advantage plans–corporate health plans...
Administration expands Medicare special enrollment periods
Most people enroll in Medicare in the three months before their 65th birthday month so that their coverage begins on the first day of their birthday month. But, some people miss this initial...
How to clip your toenails
Daily foot care is key to keep your feet feeling good. In addition to tending to infections between the toes and on your toenails, exercising and soaking your feet, and wearing shoes that fit well...
Almost all states permit the sale of products containing the...
You might not know it, but even if you live in a state in which weed is illegal, you likely can legally enjoy drinks containing weed’s primary psychoactive ingredient, delta-9 THC. At one bar...
Congress has the power to improve services at Social Security
Earlier this month, a front-page article in the Washington Post described the turmoil at Social Security offices since the Covid 19 pandemic. Services at Social Security offices have deteriorated...
The high costs of Medicare Advantage and how to address them
Taxpayers and people with Medicare are overpaying big time for Medicare Advantage, the corporate health plans that offer Medicare benefits. In a letter to the New York Times, Richard Kronick, a...