meImagine having to make this decision: Your health care provider recommends that you take a specific drug for a disease or condition, but then tells you that it hasn’t been …
Most long-term care facilities in Missouri will need to hire more nursing staff to meet new federal requirements the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced this week. Under the …
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced policies for the Affordable Care Act …
The community often targets transgender people. Now they can welcome new measures that will allow them to safely access health care. Credit: Yusufzai Ashfaq/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (Peshawar, Pakistan) Tuesday, …
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain transgender health care with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case …
No one would have guessed that in retirement, Judi and David Koncak would be almost penniless and unable to leave their children much more than a pittance. Both are university …
The Biden administration plans to roll back a cornerstone of former President Donald Trump’s health policy agenda, short-term health insurance. Short-term health insurance plans offer limited benefits and lower monthly …
UnitedHealth Group reported better-than-expected revenue in its first-quarter results on Tuesday, even as the company is still dealing with the fallout from the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary. Here’s …
A 2-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis is among the masses of Americans who lost Medicaid coverage after the pandemic. The Jacksonville, Fla., toddler needed the insurance to cover life-saving medication …
Most nursing homes in the United States will have to add staff under a federal rule announced Monday that, for the first time, sets minimum staffing ratios nationwide for homes …