The Biden administration, seeking to fill a frustrating gap in coverage for COVID-19 tests, Thursday announced that people with Medicare will be able to get free over-the-counter tests much more easily in the coming weeks.
Feb 3, 2022
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With outpatient hip and knee replacements on the rise, Geoffrey Westrich, MD, and colleagues at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) launched a study to analyze trends and compare complication rates of patients who go home ...
Jan 14, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The chance of someone who is covered by Medicaid surviving cancer may depend in part on where they live, a new analysis finds.
Jan 12, 2022
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Medicare said Tuesday it will limit coverage of a $28,000-a-year Alzheimer's drug whose benefits have been widely questioned, a major development in the nation's tug-of-war over the fair value of new medicines that offer ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Long-stay nursing home residents experience frequent transfers to the hospital. Dispelling the assumption that as individuals age and become more frail, higher rates of transfer from nursing homes to hospitals occur, a groundbreaking ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Researchers report that in communities where Medicaid is a more common source of insurance, providers of buprenorphine, an effective treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), are much less likely to discriminate between Medicaid ...
Jan 4, 2022
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The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion increased preconception and postpartum Medicaid coverage and led to significant declines in uninsurance and insurance churn, according to a study conducted at Columbia University ...
Jan 4, 2022
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There may be substantial residual confounding in risk-adjustment models used to evaluate health plan performance due to differences in patient characteristics between plans. This means that they may not be able to accurately ...
Jan 4, 2022
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(HealthDay)—National health care spending in 2020 increased 9.7 percent in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 15 in Health Affairs.
Dec 17, 2021
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Often autistic adults can have several co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, and as in non-autistic adults, these may differ by racial and/or ethnic group. Researchers from Drexel University's A.J. Drexel Autism ...
Dec 16, 2021
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