by Advize Admin | Apr 30, 2021 | FWA, Healthcare
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid pandemic, have taken heat from government regulators, residents and their families. Now the industry is hearing it from an unexpected source: their investors....
by Advize Admin | Apr 30, 2021 | FWA, Healthcare
Patricia Denny and her husband, Jeff, had hoped to one day get an RV and travel the country. Instead, Jeff has been forced into retirement at age 54 by a lung disease caused by the asbestos that’s polluted the small town of Libby, Montana, for decades. Jeff Denny’s...
by Advize Admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Healthcare, Payers
Just as other industries are rolling back some consumer-friendly changes made early in the pandemic — think empty middle seats on airplanes — so, too, are health insurers. Many voluntarily waived all deductibles, copayments and other costs for insured patients...
by Advize Admin | Apr 23, 2021 | FWA, Healthcare
A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...
by Advize Admin | Apr 23, 2021 | Healthcare
Is it a patient’s responsibility to know if their insurance covers the visit or should the office manager or biller mention it? A friend recently went to an ENT specialist. With the initial office visit the office manager didn’t say anything about requiring a...
by Advize Admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Healthcare
The Biden administration Wednesday formally proposed the repeal of Trump-era regulations barring abortion referrals and making other changes intended to evict Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the federal family planning program, Title X....
by Advize Admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Healthcare
A recent “cost-saving change” in Medicare will cut payments to hospitals for some surgical procedures while potentially raising costs and confusion for patients. For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services classified 1,740 surgeries and...
by Advize Admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Healthcare
Granted our high school intern is smarter than most and has a brain for economics but still, we like to see what the younger generation thinks about the cost of healthcare…By Sophie Kowalewski Taking care of your body seems like an easy task, however, it’s not...
by Advize Admin | Mar 12, 2021 | Healthcare
Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing tube down the trachea of a critically ill covid patient. Those performing such “aerosol-generating” procedures, often in an intensive care unit,...
by Advize Admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Healthcare
For people who’ve been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief is in sight. In January, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to open up the federal health insurance marketplace for three months as of Monday so uninsured people can...
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