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Dentists chip away at uninsured problem by offering patients membership plans

Nevada dentist David White has seen diseased and rotted teeth in the mouths of patients who routinely put off checkups and avoided minor procedures such as fillings. While dental phobia is a factor, White said, the overriding reason people avoid treatment is cost.

17 Sep 2021

Leader of California’s muscular Obamacare exchange to step down

Peter Lee, who has steered California's Affordable Care Act marketplace since late 2011 and helped mold it into a model of what the federal health care law could achieve, announced Thursday he will leave his post in March.

16 Sep 2021

Rockefeller saliva test turns out to be easier and safer to administer than conventional COVID tests

In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, Rockefeller's Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay to identify positive cases within the Rockefeller community.

16 Sep 2021

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

On the campaign trail last year, Joe Biden promised that, if elected president, he would get covid-19 under control. Since assuming office in January, Biden has continued to pledge that his administration would do its best to get Americans vaccinated against covid and allow life to return to some semblance of normal.

15 Sep 2021

Census: Insured population holds steady, with a slight shift from private to public coverage

Despite a pandemic-fueled recession, the number of uninsured Americans has increased only slightly since 2018, according to Census Bureau health insurance data released Tuesday.

14 Sep 2021

Justice Department targets data mining in Medicare Advantage fraud case

The Justice Department has accused an upstate New York health insurance plan for seniors and its medical analytics company of cheating the government out of tens of millions of dollars.

14 Sep 2021

Health care unions defending Newsom from recall will want single-payer payback

Should Gavin Newsom survive the Republican-driven attempt to oust him from office, the Democratic governor will face the prospect of paying back supporters who coalesced behind him.

13 Sep 2021

Experts propose policies to promote shared responsibility for safe use of EHRs

Developers of electronic health records (EHR) should create or modify their products to ensure that health care organizations can meet safety recommendations of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine.

12 Sep 2021

Electroconvulsive therapy reduces deaths by suicide among depressed elders

Electroconvulsive therapy reduces deaths by suicide among older adults with depression in the months immediately following hospitalization, researchers report in the 10 September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.

12 Sep 2021

International reference pricing could yield considerable savings for prescription drugs in the U.S.

Linking the cost of prescription drugs in the United States to the prices paid in other high-income nations could have reduced American spending for the drugs by at least half in 2020, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

12 Sep 2021

Study documents the added value of hospitals employing inpatient nurse practitioners

According to a new study published today in Medical Care, hospitals that employ more inpatient nurse practitioners (NPs) have lower surgical mortality, higher patient satisfaction, and lower costs of care.

10 Sep 2021

Poll: Older Americans strongly support COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health workers

A new poll finds strong support among older Americans for requiring health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

10 Sep 2021

It’s not just covid: Recall candidates represent markedly different choices on health care

Gov. Gavin Newsom's covid-19 rules have been a lightning rod in California's recall election. But there's a lot more at stake for Californians' health care than mask and vaccine mandates.

10 Sep 2021

Study identifies predictors of hospitalizations or emergency department encounters for older people

One in five South Australians will experience an unplanned hospitalization or emergency department presentation within 90 days of undertaking an aged care assessment, according to new research by the University of South Australia and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.

9 Sep 2021

Medicare News and Research

Dentists chip away at uninsured problem by offering patients membership plans

Leader of California’s muscular Obamacare exchange to step down

Rockefeller saliva test turns out to be easier and safer to administer than conventional COVID tests

Biden releases a new plan to combat covid, but experts say there’s still a ways to go

Census: Insured population holds steady, with a slight shift from private to public coverage

Justice Department targets data mining in Medicare Advantage fraud case

Health care unions defending Newsom from recall will want single-payer payback

Experts propose policies to promote shared responsibility for safe use of EHRs

Electroconvulsive therapy reduces deaths by suicide among depressed elders

International reference pricing could yield considerable savings for prescription drugs in the U.S.

Study documents the added value of hospitals employing inpatient nurse practitioners

Poll: Older Americans strongly support COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health workers

It’s not just covid: Recall candidates represent markedly different choices on health care

Study identifies predictors of hospitalizations or emergency department encounters for older people

Study highlights the impact of Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring Program

Domestic violence in Black communities underreported during Chicago’s stay-at-home order

Telehealth’s limits: Battle over state lines and licensing threatens patients’ options

‘My time to live’: Through novel program, kidney patients get palliative care, dialysis ’til the end

People living in greener areas less likely to develop cardiovascular disease

Medicaid vaccination rates founder as states struggle to immunize their poorest residents

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