Oncology & Cancer
Massage therapists ease the pain of hospice patients, but aren't easy to find
Ilyse Streim views massage for people in hospice care as "whispering to the body through touch."
Jun 13, 2023
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News tagged with health care insurance
Medical economics
Overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans could exceed $75 billion in 2023
Enrollment in the Medicare Advantage program—which allows Medicare beneficiaries to get their health care through plans administered by private insurance companies—has been growing so rapidly that it has recently surpassed ...
Jun 13, 2023
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Health informatics
Do you use a patient portal? Study finds differences between portal users versus nonusers
People who sign up for and use their healthcare provider's online portal differ in some key characteristics from those who do not use patient portals, reports a survey study in Medical Care.
Jun 9, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Money troubles can delay cancer diagnoses, putting survival in jeopardy
Money woes have long been linked to worse health care. Now, a new study finds financially strapped patients often put off cancer screenings—only to learn they have the disease when it's advanced and tougher to treat.
Jun 6, 2023
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Medical economics
Health care coalition jockeys over Medi-Cal spending, eyes ballot initiative
Influential health care interests are jockeying over a potential infusion of $19.4 billion into Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, while also angling for a 2024 ballot initiative to permanently lock in that funding, ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Surgery
How a medical recoding may limit cancer patients' options for breast reconstruction
The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have protested would limit women's options for reconstructive surgery.
Jun 1, 2023
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Medical economics
Denials of health insurance claims are rising, and getting weirder
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer's ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Medical economics
Health experts in Nigeria call for new president to prioritize health care and refrain from politicizing it
Health experts in Nigeria say the country's president-elect, who will be inaugurated on 29 May, must focus on health care. During the election campaign, incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress ...
May 25, 2023
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Health informatics
Enhancing patient care by improving electronic health records: Plan outlines three 'essential' steps
An early advocate for the electronic health records now found in hospitals across the country has developed a plan to improve their use, lighten clinicians' workload and enhance patient care.
May 25, 2023
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Neuroscience
International group of experts redefines concussions
Doctors and other health-care providers have a new standard for diagnosing mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), thanks to a thorough process led by researchers from the University of B.C. and Harvard-affiliated Spaulding Rehabilitation ...
May 23, 2023
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