The 2023 Medicare and You Handbook is now available for your reading pleasure. Unfortunately, it continues to mislead and confuse in significant ways about Medicare Advantage. Though the Centers for...
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Hospital 340B program fails low-income communities
Katie Thomas and Jessica Silver-Greenberg report for The New York Times on how a big non-profit hospital system took money that should have been funneled into patient care in a low-income community...
Private equity takes advantage of older adults in long-term care...
Christine Spolar reports for Kaiser Health News on the private equity takeover of long-term care in Britain and its toll on elder care. In short, private equity is doing to British long-term care...
Five exercises to improve balance for safety and health
As we age, it becomes more likely that we will fall and break a hip or a shoulder. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that falls are the top cause of injury and death from injury for...
California lawmakers ask Congress to expand Social Security
CNBC reports that California lawmakers just approved a resolution asking Congress to expand Social Security. The California legislators support Congressman John Larson’s Social Security 2100: A...
Medical debt more prevalent among Medicare Advantage enrollees...
Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein et al. write in JAMA Network about medical debt, which more than 18 percent of American households shoulder. What’s particularly noteworthy is that people...
Data show Medicare Advantage covers less nursing, rehab, home...
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a new study looking at more than 60 past studies of Medicare Advantage. The takeaway is familiar: People with few health care needs fare well in Medicare...
Inspector General finds Medicare telehealth fraud
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began paying for a wide range of telehealth services at the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic in order to help ensure people with Medicare...
Americans want health care system overhaul
A new survey of Americans finds utter and complete dissatisfaction with our health care system, reports Amanda Seitz for AP News. Nearly nine in ten Americans say that health care is not handled well...
Coronavirus: Get your booster shot as soon as possible
Fall is in the air and the new Covid-19 booster vaccine is ready to be administered. This new booster shot is designed to protect you against different strains of the coronavirus. Get your booster...