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Medicare pays for private rooms
‘Do we have to go to a different hospital to get the care from Medicare?’
What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that -- and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
Social care reform: What are the sticking points?
Ministers may agree on the solution, but not on how to pay for improvements to the creaking care system.
Can We Start Being Honest About How We'd Pay For Medicare For All?
Medicare's historic proposal to change how it pays physicians
CMS is proposing to radically overhaul how it pays physicians for office visits and other evaluation and management (E/M) services.
Why You Do NOT Want to Miss Your Medicare Deadlines
How to guard against Medicare scams
Scams are an unfortunate reality of everyday life.
How to Work Two Treatment Rooms Efficiently
How do you work out of more than one room at the same time and not make patients wait? How do you create a schedule that reduces your overhead? Read on...
Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN): A Quick How To
A Medicare Advanced Beneficiary Notice ABN is a notice given to Medicare patients for services that may not be covered or considered medically necessary.
What the Medicare for All Fight Is Really About
And what it might actually mean for your health and your budget.
Why It’s So Hard to Fix Medicare Fraud
Officials at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services are looking for ways to reduce fraud and abuse without restricting access to medical care.
5 doctors and surgeons tell us what they really think about Medicare-for-all
Some doctors support single-payer health care — even if that means a lower salary.
How Insulin Became the Poster Child for Medicare for All
The staggeringly high costs of good health in America affect all of us in profound ways—and insulin makes the stakes tragically clear.
A physician suggests how to improve Medicare
Over the last 50 years, Medicare has improved the delivery of health care services for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population.
How Medicare's payment overhaul tries to change how docs use tech
Medicare's new system for paying physicians will kill off the so-called “meaningful use” regime for measuring EHR use. The CMS promises a more flexible approach that focuses on making relevant information accessible to clinicians and patients.
Letter: Medicare represents how health insurance should be
Medicare: How health insurance should beMy father worked for a small insurance company for over 40 years. Part of his retirement was an insurance policy that covered everything Medicare didn’t, including prescription dru
Why Emergency Rooms Are A Hotbed For Surprise Medical Bills
When you head into the emergency room, you might assume that the doctors you see are hospital employees who accept the same insurance plans as their employer. But nearly two-thirds of hospitals now…
How Medicare for All Could Improve—and Save—the Lives of Transgender People
Transgender people are systematically shut out of medical coverage. Medicare for All could change that.
Medicare & ACA deadlines approaching! Get your questions answered!
Health care enrollment can be confusing. Let our experts help you out for free.
Medicare-for-all bill: Why you should be very concerned
The promise of completely ‘free’ medical care of every sort imaginable should sound too good to be true. (Because it is.)
