Back in February, the Biden administration proposed a series of nursing home reforms, many of...
Medicare
Medical debt on the rise
New research from the Peterson Center on Health Care and the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that...
Medicare hospice benefit has become a luxury
For many years, Medicare has covered palliative or non-curative care at the end of life through its...
PACE helps older adults stay in their community
The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a home and community-based program...
UnitedHealth could force nearly 3,000 patients to forgo care or...
Because the US Congress leaves it to corporate health insurers to negotiate health care provider...
Medicare coverage of mental health care
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in five Americans age 55 years or older...
2022: Programs that lower your health care costs if you have...
Medicare only covers about half of a typical person’s health care costs, leaving people with...
Should Medicare pay for a phone visit with your doctor?
In this age of Covid-19, telehealth and phone visits have been increasing significantly for...
Medicare hospital star-ratings are a farce
Every year, Medicare penalizes hospitals that underperform. This year, it penalized 764 hospitals...
More than one in four older adults skip care because of cost
In two separate surveys, one of older adults and one of their caregivers, Fair Health looked at...