Medicare is the financial cornerstone of how tens of millions of American retirees handle their healthcare costs, and 2015 brought some challenges to the Medicare system that initially threatened to
Congress just kicked the financial legs out from under Obamacare. In a spending bill passed this month, lawmakers delayed three key taxes designed to help pay the entitlement program’s costs,
A report just released by the National Minority Quality Forum has found that Medicare is increasing mortality among seniors. It describes how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMSs)
The elderly man from Oman who was receiving a cardiac catheterization was the third international patient that Dr. Patel and I had seen in the past hour. Before him, there
Healthcare spending rose to more than $3 trillion in the United States last year, jumping by 5.3 percent and marking the largest increase since 2007 as millions of people gained
People covered by Medicare have a pretty good deal, as long as they live long enough past retirement to overcome the non-tax-deductible amounts they paid in Social Security taxes while
Lately the news about Medicare costs has been surprisingly good. Congress recently made a deal to spare some beneficiaries what would have been steep 50% hikes in Part B premiums
Looks can always be deceiving, but particularly so in health insurance, where the cheapest upfront plans often lead to major sticker shock after the actual doctor visit. But with a
Quick quiz. What should doctors do when they recognize that a hospitalized patient is ready to go home? If you answered: discharge the patient, you havent spent time working at
After nearly two years in operation and millions of dollars spent in development, the small business health insurance exchange created by the Affordable Care Act is struggling to catch on.
