Medicare

Medicare’s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays

Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before…

3 months ago

From Bread to Barriers: When Health-Care Access Becomes the Crime

Les Misérables was never truly about bread. Bread was the spark, hunger the condition, and desperation the predictable outcome of…

9 months ago

Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,’ Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof

UF Health is trying a new way to attract patients: a combination emergency room and urgent care center.

2 years ago

Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients

[Reprinted with permission from KFF Health News, authored by Susan Jaffee] Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a…

3 years ago

The Unsustainable Math of Medicare Physician Reimbursement Cuts

Let me get this out of the way: Yes, physicians earn a very good living. Many, if not most, physicians…

3 years ago

Struggle to Survive, the First Rural Hospitals Line Up for New Federal Lifeline

Although not expected to be a permanent solution to pressures facing rural America, policymakers and hospital operators hope a new…

4 years ago

The Forgotten Ones in the Tragedy of Alzheimer’s Disease

The group of researchers spread out around the computer screen. They seemed to hope that they had finally found the…

4 years ago

Ruling Against the Disabled and Denying Social Security Benefits to Them

Wracked with chronic pain and unable to stand or sit for any length of time should result in disability benefits,…

4 years ago

More Time With a Primary Care Provider Means – Better Care, Lower Costs and Less Frustration – A Win, Win, Win

This is the 10th article in a series on America’s dysfunctional healthcare system.

4 years ago

Consumerism in Healthcare

A new and developing force in medicine will add a new set of dramatic changes: the force of consumerism. No…

4 years ago

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