Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services
Reports on financial struggles for rural hospitals across the country leading to department and facility closures and many more at risk of closure. Highlights common rural health disparities and notes impact of closures on rural communities. Discusses the impact of various policies on rural hospitals including Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement as well as the Rural Emergency Hospital designation. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - March 7, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Medicare a Big Contributor to the Broken Health Payment System, Senators Told
(MedPage Today) -- Who is to blame for America's broken healthcare payment system? Witnesses and lawmakers mostly pointed fingers at Medicare during Wednesday's Senate Budget Committee hearing on how primary care improves healthcare efficiency... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 6, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Scoop: Biden campaign's plan of attack
The Biden-Harris campaign plans to try to usurp "Project 2025" — the name of a well-funded Heritage Foundation effort to prepare for a second Trump administration — to brand warnings about the former president's policies. Why it matters: President Biden's campaign tells me "Project 2025" resonates…#bidenharris #project2025 #heritagefoundation #trump #behindcurtain #jimvandehei #heritage #socialsecurity #medicare (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pros and cons of hiring a financial advisor
Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. A financial advisor can be a wonderful resource for getting your finances in order, offering you expert advice across a range of…#rodrigofaro #beauhenderson #ricp #richlifeadvisors #gainesville #georgia #medicare #socialsecurity #patkujawa #aif (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
" Doomsday Clock Ticking " : U.S. Unfunded Social Security And Medicare Liability Hits $175.3 Trillion
"Doomsday Clock Ticking": U.S. Unfunded Social Security And Medicare Liability Hits $175.3 Trillion By Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com Topline $175,300,000,000,000 is the most important financial number in the world. The new Financial Report of the United States Government (February 2024)…#doomsdayclockticking #medicareliability #adamandrzejewski #socialsecurity #medicare #treasury #janetyellin #constitution #federalgovernment #socialsecuritys (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Innoveren Scientific's (OTCMKTS: IVRN) 510(k) Submission Sparks A New Hope For Patients Living With Chronic Non-Healing Wounds
An aging U.S. population with increasingly complex medical diagnoses has doctors and clinicians under pressure to diagnose and treat patients while restoring their quality of life. With the goal of doing just that, a life science and biotech incubator company is advancing a wound-healing product.…#clinicians #skindisc #innoverenscientific #medicare #innoveren #fda #ultra #bonemarrowaspirate #bma #breatheeasy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Proposed Medicare Pay Bump Falls Short, Doc Groups Say Proposed Medicare Pay Bump Falls Short, Doc Groups Say
AAFP and MGMA criticized a pending bill for providing too small of an increase for Medicare clinician payment.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
Major US Primary Care Network Accused of Medicare Fraud Major US Primary Care Network Accused of Medicare Fraud
A whistleblower suit claimed Aledade, Inc., cheated the government out of millions of dollars by making patients appear sicker than they were.KFF Health News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Source Type: news
CMS: Medicare Program; Announcement of the Re-Approval of COLA Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
Announcement from the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (CMS) of receipt of an application from COLA for re-approval as an accreditation organization for clinical laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) program for several specialty and subspecialty laboratories. CMS has re-approved COLA as an accreditation organization under CLIA and grants deeming authority for 6 years through March 6, 2030. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 6, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System
The hacking shut down the nation ’s biggest health care payment system, causing financial chaos that affected a broad spectrum ranging from large hospitals to single-doctor practices. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell Tags: your-feed-healthcare Health Insurance and Managed Care Finances Hospitals Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Doctors Cyberattacks and Hackers Chemotherapy Cyberwarfare and Defense Medicare Politics and Government Drugstores United States Poli Source Type: news
Emergency Surgery Rates Higher in Primary Care Shortage Areas, Study Suggests
(MedPage Today) -- Rates of emergency surgery, serious complications, and hospital readmissions were higher among Medicare patients living in primary care shortage areas, according to a cross-sectional retrospective cohort study of data from 2015... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 5, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Netsmart ’s local partner pushes its services into senior market
Netsmart will expand its health technology services to senior living organizations through a new partnership. It's part of a broader federal push to incentivize health care systems to provide “value-based care” to people with Medicare. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Grace Mayer Source Type: news
Hospitals and PBMs seem to have dodged big federal reforms
Hospitals and pharmacy benefit managers who've repeatedly been targeted in congressional debates over health spending appear to have ducked major federal reforms that could have upended how they do business. Why it matters: The big congressional spending deal that was unveiled this week with…#medicare #larrylevitt #kff #republicans #hospitals #superbowl #cathymcmorrisrodgers #wash #democrats #ronwyden (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From ‘morbid obesity’ to ‘major depression,’ the U.S.’ largest independent primary care network was exaggerating patient ailments to make more money,…
A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using billing software “rigged” to make patients appear sicker than they were. The civil suit alleges…#maryland #medicare #aledadeincs #khushwindersingh #seattle #singh #aledade #juliebataille #bethesda #farzadmostashari (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Calls Mount for Government Help as Change Healthcare Hack Freezes Medical Payments
Hospitals and lawmakers call on Medicare and Medicaid to advance payments amid revenue crunch two weeks after hack of UnitedHealth unit.#medicare #medicaid #unitedhealth (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
