Examples of other organizations that oversee regulatory requirements include OSHA, government departments of health that perform a variety of duties to protect patient health and safety, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services whose duties focus on fraud mitigation, and local government building and fi...
I’ve long been an advocate for price transparency in healthcare.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (aka CMS) has recently taken action that requires hospitals to post their prices online, which should boost competition and help you shop around to save money. If memory serves, the ...
Article Google Scholar Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Telehealth policies after the COVID-19 public health emergency. https://www.cms.gov. 2021. Download references Acknowledgements The author is thankful to all the authors of the references used in the article. Disclaimer Not applicable...
August 12, 2019Ohio Star Staff Last week, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, spoke at The Heritage Foundation on the effect “Medicare for All” would have on American health care. Read More Posts navigation Older posts...
4Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Fact Sheet: Advance Care Planning, August 2016 https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/AdvanceCarePlanning.pdf
Columbia University researchers found being in a bed previously used by a patient with an infection ups your own risk of infection by583%(SEE ABSTRACT, HERE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29486805), according to the current issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The resea...
Healthcare affordability is a challenge for many. I've accepted the fact I must pay over $20,000 a year for health insurance premiums for a family of four. I understand that Obamacare was constructed so that those who are not poor can help subsidize those who are poor so they can get...
Medicare, a United States government health insurance program for people 65 and older, which in 2016 lagged in telehealth coverage compared to private insurers and Medicaid, its counterpart for people with low incomes, saw a particularly significant increase in telehealth use: only 0.1% of Medicare...
Similar initiatives could potentially be replicated in the private sector through other comprehensive care models, such as the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Medicaid-managed long-term care organizations, or Medicare Advantage plans.49,50 From a crisis planning perspective, ...
“I have to sign some papers to give up all of my husband’s benefits via his job – which included his life insurance that he had paid into, so we lost that. This allowed him to be covered by Medicaid. I can’t even put into words how much stress UHC caused on top of my ...