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Study offers new insights into the rapid spread of fraudulent Medicare home healthcare billing

Findings from an innovative study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, are providing new insights into how the rapid spread (or diffusion) of fraudulent Medicare home healthcare billing has occurred across the U.S. in recent years.

8 Jun 2023

Transient ischemic attack with incomplete neurovascular imaging linked to higher risk of subsequent stroke

According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS' own American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), transient ischemic attack (TIA) emergency department (ED) encounters with incomplete neurovascular imaging were associated with higher odds of subsequent stroke within 90 days.

8 Jun 2023

Debt deal leaves health programs (mostly) intact

A final deal cut between President Joe Biden and House Republicans extends the U.S. debt ceiling deadline to 2025 and reins in some spending.

8 Jun 2023

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.”

8 Jun 2023

Pneumothorax prevalence in COVID-19 and influenza patients

Researchers examined the occurrence and patient risk factors involved in pneumothorax.

8 Jun 2023

A windfall in health insurance rebates? It’s not as crazy as it sounds

“Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA."

7 Jun 2023

Study highlights the urgent need for a higher level of care for nursing home residents with AD

The quality of care for nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is best when they are in the majority, but most facilities also accommodate a heterogeneous population, where specialized staff training is limited, according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine.

7 Jun 2023

New insight from patients on what helps or hinders medication-assisted opioid use disorder treatment

Patients would be more willing to enter medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder if existing stigmas were reduced and more accessible payment support was readily available, a West Virginia University study finds.

6 Jun 2023

American Indian and Alaska Native men less likely to be screened for prostate cancer, study shows

New research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that American Indian and Alaska Native men are less likely to be screened for prostate cancer compared to other racial/ethnic groups.

5 Jun 2023

Will a ‘national patient safety board,’ modeled after the NTSB, actually fly?

People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can't hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes?

5 Jun 2023

Do veterans with COVID-19 experience similar outcomes when hospitalized in Veterans Health Administration hospitals vs. community hospitals?

Researchers compared COVID-19-related deaths and re-admission rates in VHA vs. community hospitals.

2 Jun 2023

The debt ceiling deal takes a bite out of health programs. It could have been much worse.

Policy analysts, Democrats, and Republicans dissatisfied with the deal agree: Federal health programs have dodged a budgetary bullet in the Washington showdown over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

1 Jun 2023

More states OK postpartum Medicaid coverage beyond two months

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.

31 May 2023

Many people living in the ‘diabetes belt’ are plagued with medical debt

Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim.

30 May 2023

Health outcomes and costs remain the same for patients treated by allopathic or osteopathic physicians

New UCLA-led research suggests that patient mortality rates, readmissions, length of stay, and health care spending were virtually identical for elderly hospitalized patients who were treated by physicians with Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degrees.

29 May 2023

This panel will decide whose medicine to make affordable. Its choice will be tricky.

Catherine Reitzel's multiple sclerosis medication costs nearly $100,000 a year. Kris Garcia relies on a drug for a blood-clotting disorder that runs $10,000 for a three-day supply. And Mariana Marquez-Farmer would likely die within days without her monthly $300 vial of insulin.

25 May 2023

Medicare News and Research

Study offers new insights into the rapid spread of fraudulent Medicare home healthcare billing

Transient ischemic attack with incomplete neurovascular imaging linked to higher risk of subsequent stroke

Debt deal leaves health programs (mostly) intact

Massage therapists ease the pain of hospice patients — but aren’t easy to find

Pneumothorax prevalence in COVID-19 and influenza patients

A windfall in health insurance rebates? It’s not as crazy as it sounds

Study highlights the urgent need for a higher level of care for nursing home residents with AD

New insight from patients on what helps or hinders medication-assisted opioid use disorder treatment

American Indian and Alaska Native men less likely to be screened for prostate cancer, study shows

Will a ‘national patient safety board,’ modeled after the NTSB, actually fly?

Do veterans with COVID-19 experience similar outcomes when hospitalized in Veterans Health Administration hospitals vs. community hospitals?

The debt ceiling deal takes a bite out of health programs. It could have been much worse.

More states OK postpartum Medicaid coverage beyond two months

How a medical recoding may limit cancer patients’ options for breast reconstruction

Many people living in the ‘diabetes belt’ are plagued with medical debt

Health outcomes and costs remain the same for patients treated by allopathic or osteopathic physicians

This panel will decide whose medicine to make affordable. Its choice will be tricky.

He returned to the US for his daughter’s wedding. He left with a $42,000 hospital bill.

Tailored revascularization strategies can help improve outcomes for patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia

Largest chronic limb-threatening ischemia study provides insights for developing better process measures

Exploring the intersection of biology and proteomics

Unlocking the Secrets of Multiple Sclerosis Progression: Brain-Immune Cell Communication

Passing on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Health risks for male offspring of women with PCOS

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