Health
An effort to stop the revolving door for hospital patients may be spinning its wheels
Every American hospital has two front doors: The real one, and an imaginary revolving door.
Jul 1, 2019
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News tagged with medicare patients
Oncology & Cancer
Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma benefit from targeted therapies
Many elderly patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC)—who are often underrepresented in clinical trials to treat the kidney cancer—are seeing overall survival benefits from treatment with targeted therapies, ...
Jun 21, 2019
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Health
Medicare program aimed at lowering costs, improving care may not be working as well as thought
As the Medicare system seeks to improve the care of older adults while also keeping costs from growing too fast, a new University of Michigan study suggests that one major effort may not be having as much of an impact as ...
Jun 19, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Rates of long-term opiate use rises in Medicare cancer survivors each year after diagnosis
Using Medicare data, new findings from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston show for the first time that the rates of long term opiate therapy—a 90-day or more supply of opioids per year—for older cancer ...
May 14, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
For-profit dialysis provider charges private insurers four times more than government payers
Private insurers covering people receiving treatment for dialysis paid four times more than government insurance programs such as Medicare paid for the same service. The study found that government programs paid, on average, ...
May 14, 2019
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Health
Patients of medicare providers committing fraud, abuse more likely to be poor, disabled
A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed providers excluded from Medicare for fraud and abuse, and found that the patients they treated prior to being banned were more likely to be minorities, ...
May 7, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Elderly survivors of three common cancers face persistent risk of brain metastasis
Elderly survivors of breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma face risk of brain metastasis later in life, and may require extra surveillance in the years following initial cancer treatment.
May 3, 2019
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Health
How long does it take to see a doctor in a nursing home? Some patients never do, Penn study finds
When Kira Ryskina works in Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, she usually sees her patients every day.
Apr 3, 2019
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Cardiology
Heart attacks fall by one-third among older Americans
A groundbreaking new study holds heartening news for older Americans.
Mar 15, 2019
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Medical economics
Patients discharged to home care vs. nursing facilities have higher rates of hospital readmissions
Spending on post-acute care continues to rise in the United States. Today, nearly 90 percent of Medicare patients discharged to post-acute care receive that care in either a skilled nursing facility or home health care. However, ...
Mar 13, 2019
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