All sorts of proposed changes for people in Medicare Advantage are afoot, reports Allison Bell for ThinkAdvisor. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released proposed rules effective...
Diane Archer
Can the US provide needed care without immigrant doctors?
The United States has had a shortage of physicians for several decades. It is only because immigrant physicians have come to the US that we have been able to address the shortage, particularly in...
Practicing yoga can improve your sleep
A meta-analysis of 30 trials in more than 12 countries found that regular high-intensity yoga is more likely to improve your sleep than weight exercises, aerobic exercise, Chinese exercise and...
Almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer...
A new Gallup survey finds that almost 10 percent of Americans say they have or have had cancer, reports Avery Lotz for Axios. That’s the bad news. The good news is that fewer people in the US...
Community living for people with dementia can have tremendous...
Today, some 500,000 people in the US are diagnosed with dementia each year. Black Americans are twice as likely to develop dementia as White Americans. Only a small percentage of people with dementia...
Senator Sanders recognizes need for array of health care...
Senator Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee is asking Senate Democrats to come together behind major health care reforms when they...
Insurers misuse prior authorization even for simple treatments
One big insurer, Anthem, denied coverage inappropriately to a woman who needed medicine to ward off Lyme disease on the ground that she failed to get prior authorization for her care. Even when the...
Medicaid corporate insurer networks block access to care
Most states contract with corporate health insurers to deliver health care benefits to their residents on Medicaid. A PNHP report shows that these for-profit insurers cost states more than if they...
Republicans move in the wrong direction on health care
Republicans in Congress are trying to figure out what to do on the health care front, now that they’ve refused to continue additional subsidies for people on the ACA health care exchanges...
2026: What are your Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket costs?
The federal government is raising the Part B Medicare premium to $202.90 in 2026, almost 10 percent more than this year and way higher than the rate of inflation. Under the law, people with Medicare...