Medicare

This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Virginia will partner with CMS to test a new model for providing Medicare-Medicaid enrollees with a more coordinated, person-centered care experience. There are approximately...

WASHINGTON The president and chief executive officer of a medical equipment company invoked the Fifth Amendment at a Senate hearing Wednesday, declining to answer questions about aggressive marketing tactics used to sell scooters, sleep apnea machines and...

You already trust your health care providers with your physical well-being. Should you also trust them with your financial health? That's the question consumers are facing as a growing group of health care providers give patients the option to charge...

Compliments to Morning Call reporter Tim Darragh on his recent coverage of U.S. Health and Human Service's release of hospital charge data. It's eye-opening how charges for identical services vary widely across hospitals in our region. At first blush,...

During my walks near Westlake just north of Centerplace, I noticed recently that the prairie dog colonies seemed to be migrating onto Greeley West Park at 42nd Street and 36th Avenue north of Centerplace Drive. How can this be stopped before it gets out...

More baby boomers are pushing back their retirements and working longer, even as the recovery of the stock market replenishes portfolios that were depleted during the recession. The reason: health care expenses. The cost of medical care for a 65-year-...

Years before a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital bused a homeless, schizophrenic man to Sacramento without arranging contacts or a plan for care, a different hospital ditched Gabino Olvera on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Olvera, homeless and paraplegic,...

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis recalls the moment he learned that Democrats had identified him as a special target for defeat in 2014. He was standing in line for freshman orientation the week after winning his seat last November. "The honeymoon didn't even...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A powerful narcotic was the No. 1 prescribed drug among Medicare patients in West Virginia for 2010, and a Charleston neurologist was the top prescriber in the state. State doctors wrote 402,159 hydrocodone-acetaminophen...

In the latest roundup of accused Medicare fraudsters, Miami is once again one of the main players. Literally. One of the men indicted is local actor Roberto F. Marrero. The TV bit-player ( Miami Vice, America's Most Wanted -- what irony!) and his wife,...

Through all the clamoring surrounding the state's latest Medicaid reform effort, one message is coming through loud and clear from physicians and administrators: Let North Carolina providers resolve Medicaid financial and operational issues, not for-...

Hearing aids can be so expensive that seniors on a fixed income are sometimes reluctant to buy them. If health insurance doesn't cover the device's cost, a person can pay more than $2,000 for a popular model. "I've had patients tell me they can't...