Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds
After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that resulted,…
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An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring…
Some CT Scans Deliver Too Much Radiation, Researchers Say. Regulators Want To Know More.
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of…
Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire
DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at…
Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant…
Nursing Homes and the AMA, Once Medicaid Defenders, Hang Back as GOP Mulls Big Cuts
When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient advocates, hospitals, and others rallied…
Trump Health Care Proposal Billed as Consumer Protection but Adds Enrollment Hoops
The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal officials said are intended to…
Gov. Evers Makes Critical Investments in Health Care Coverage and Access
Gov. Evers Makes Critical Investments in Health Care Coverage and Access Today, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) highlights critical …
Home Improvements Help People Age Independently. But Medicare Seldom Picks Up the Bill.
Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer. He was fatigued, isolated, not…
States Facing Doctor Shortages Ease Licensing Rules for Foreign-Trained Physicians
A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, a shift supporters say could…