19+ hour, 36+ min ago  (301+ words) University of Utah Health is the state's only academic health care system, providing leading-edge and compassionate care for a referral area that encompasses 10 percent of the US, including Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and much of Nevada. A hub for health sciences…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (845+ words) Newswise " For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have higher-than-expected rates of readmissions for people with certain conditions. The Hospital…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (262+ words) Study first author, James Deardorff, MD, a geriatrician and UCSF assistant professor of Geriatrics Additionally, insurance coverage determinations greatly influence discharge options. Many healthcare payers " including Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicaid managed care, and commercial insurance " manage PAC selection through prior…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1813+ words) Newswise " Right now, 68 million Americans have a deadline coming up: the deadline to decide their Medicare health coverage for next year if they're over age 65 or have major disabilities. They must make those decisions by December 7, for coverage beginning January…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (384+ words) Newswise " In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home. Granger's research centers on the Americana Corporation, a for-profit eldercare…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (513+ words) Newswise " An organization made up of 6,700 physicians and other clinicians across Michigan has saved the Medicare system $35 million in a single year, and $272 million since its founding 12 years ago, newly released data show. The organization, called Physician Organization of Michigan…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (290+ words) The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) strongly condemns UnitedHealthcare's decision to move forward with its discriminatory anesthesia reimbursement policy, which reduces payments by 15% for services rendered independently by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). AANA Condemns UnitedHealthcare's Implementation of Discriminatory…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (132+ words) Phothera announced today that Cigna has updated its coverage policy to remove prior restrictions on home phototherapy, effective 7/15/2025. More than 66.7 million Americans now covered for safe, effective at-home treatment for psoriasis, eczema, and vitiligo "With both Cigna and Elevance now…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (450+ words) Newswise " The federal government's Medicare program and older adults together spend $4.4 billion a year on care that has low clinical value for patients and can even raise their risk of harm, a new study finds. The study focuses on 47 tests,…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago  (699+ words) Seventy-five national medical organizations are urging the Senate to adopt a key Medicare payment provision in the Senate budget reconciliation package. The provision, Section 44304 of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), would tie Medicare physician payments to inflation beginning…...