Depending on the type of health insurance you have, you may not be able to go straight to a specialist when you think you need the services they offer. If you have ahealth maintenance organization (HMO) or point of service (POS) plan, you'll probably need to go to your primary care ...
How Medicaid Coverage Can Fall Short For Americans With DisabilitiesThe last four years have produced historic debates over the nature of America's health care safety net. But Medicaid — a state-federal partnership program that serves some of the sickest, poorest…ThinkProgress...
Medicare Advantage is part of a wider move to give the for-profit insurance companies footing in the market previously served only by governments. Medicaid, too, is increasingly being served by for-profit insurance companies with big contracts to manage states’ Medicaid programs. The for-profit c...
Medicare and Medicaid cover only those CGM devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a replacement for fingerstick blood glucose testing for diabetes treatment decisions (i.e., "therapeutic" use), and only if patients are receiving intensive insulin therapy and require frequent...
re in between jobs or working to start your own business. but with cobra, federal and state health insurance marketplaces, and programs like medicaid and chip, there are options for you to explore. keep in mind that health coverage options are always changing—just like your individual ...
Additionally, the session will explore actions that could be taken on drug pricing through the Administration's authority under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) 2023-02-07 Webinar Ripple Effects of Expediting Vaccine Development In this webinar, originally broadcast as part ...
Doctors and hospitals would also continue to get their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. But, it’s possible that new applications wouldn’t be processed. During a government shutdown in 1996, thousands of Medicare applicants were turned away daily. Which government agencies would be affected by...
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Coverage.Canes. Patient Advocate Foundation.Out-of-network costs and how to handle them. HRSA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Getting started: telehealth and physical therapy. New Hampshire Department of Insurance.What should I do if I the...
Figure 1. US healthcare expenses as a percentage of GDP, based on data of the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In this post, I will try to explain a bit of the underlying problem and give some hints at what the simplification might look like. Part of the problem is too ...
ARTICLE Spinocerebellar ataxia: Patient and health professional perspectives on whether and how patents affect access to clinical genetic testing Ashton Powell, PhD1, Subhashini Chandrasekharan, PhD2, and Robert Cook-Deegan, MD2 Abstract: Genetic testing for spinocerebellar ataxia is used in diagnosis ...