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July 19, 2018 | New York Times
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Dental and vision care benefits will be restored for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients in a sudden reversal by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration following an outcry over the recent cuts.
The coverage...
July 19, 2018 | US Department of Veterans Affairs
WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health announced the extension of a public-private partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help interpret cancer data in the treatment of Veteran...
July 17, 2018 | Quest Diagnostics
2018 QUEST DIAGNOSTICS STUDY FINDS:
Physicians and health plan executives agreed healthcare has made little progress toward value-based care since last year – more than two-thirds (67 percent) of physicians and health plan executives...
July 16, 2018 | New York Times
It takes only a glance at a hospital bill or at the myriad choices you may have for health care coverage to get a sense of the bewildering complexity of health care financing in the United States. That complexity doesn’t just exact a...
July 16, 2018 | Honolulu Civil Beat
The patient, pleading for pills, set off alarm bells in the doctor’s head.
When abused, the anti-seizure drug the patient was seeking can produce a euphoric high. Was the patient battling an addiction?
On a computer, the doctor searched...
July 16, 2018
The Vanishing Of Primary Care Physicians
Traditionally, this has been the role of the primary care physician. However, among all the providers that paraded through this patient’s room, none was her primary care physician. Banished from...
July 10, 2018 | Association of American Medical Colleges
Untreated oral health issues can wreak havoc on health and well-being, yet medical schools have historically taught little about them. Now, some leaders are determined to change that.
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Oral health problems can cause horrible pain and...
July 10, 2018 | The Blog of Bill Gates
Ultimately, there’s no getting around the need for a primary health care system with well-stocked clinics and staff. Community health workers are a good complement to a functional primary health care system, and a step in the right...
July 10, 2018 | New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it was slashing grants to nonprofit organizations that help people obtain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the latest step in an escalating attack on the law...
July 9, 2018 | Delaware Online
Despite spending more per capita on health care than all but two states and ranking 30th in America’s Health Rankings, Delaware only spends 3 to 4 percent on primary care services — half the national average. States such as Oregon and...
July 6, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
July 3, 2018 | New York Times
Last year, as insurance prices rose by an average of just over 20 percent around the country, people who qualified for Obamacare subsidies hung onto their insurance. But the increases appear to have been too much to bear for many customers...
July 2, 2018 | The Hill
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s (R) administration is canceling dental and vision benefits for thousands of people on Medicaid in the state following a judge blocking the state’s Medicaid work requirements.
The cancellation of dental and...
June 27, 2018
The high prevalence of mental health illnesses has affected a wide range of people across the nation. According to the National Institutes of Health, one in six adults in the United States had a mental disorder in 2016. By 2030, the...
June 27, 2018 | CareFirst
Since it was launched in January 2011, the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCHM) program operated by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has lowered the expected cost of care for CareFirst members by nearly $1.2 billion.
In 2017...
June 26, 2018 | KevinMD.com
There are so many theories out there about what we should or shouldn’t be doing with our complex and fragmented health care system. We are facing a perfect storm of factors: an aging population, a huge increase in chronic disease, new and...
June 26, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
Dr. Atul Gawande, the famed surgeon-writer-researcher chosen to lead a joint health venture by three prominent employers to bring down health costs, said his biggest goal is to help professionals “make it simpler to do the right thing” in...
June 26, 2018 | Bloomberg
When Carla Jordan and her husband were hit with a cascade of serious medical issues, she knew that at least her family had health insurance through her job. What she didn’t realize was that even with that coverage, a constant stream of...
June 25, 2018
June 25, 2018
Submitted via www.regulations.gov
Ms. Seema Verma
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21244
Re: CMS-1694-P; Request for Information on Promoting Interoperability...
June 23, 2018 | New York Times
This primary care doctor treats diabetes, rashes, strep throat - and opioid addiction. The country needs many more doctors like her.
