John Oliver satirizes Medicare Advantage and exposes both the systemic shortcomings of this insurance industry-created monstrosity, and its, er, disadvantages for consumers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejoi9yfLVCc
McKnight’s reported that the Trump Administration has changed the rules in how nursing homes can charge patients and their family members. CMS, the overseer of Medicare and Medicaid, will protect families from having to pay when vulnerable adults lose coverage or run out of money. In the past, nursing homes were permitted to demand money from family
HR 1, formerly known as the “Big Beautiful Bill” is expected to have a massive impact on the long-term care and hospital sector. Some states, such as Idaho and North Carolina, have already made cuts to Medicaid in anticipation of HR 1. North Carolina plans to cut nursing home funding by 10%, and the state
Skilled Nursing News reported on a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) confirms what families, advocates, and nursing home litigators have known for years: many facilities will take federal money meant for care and spend it in ways that do little — if anything —
The recent House reconciliation bill has proposed tremendous cuts to both Medicaid and Medicare, putting fiscally vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities at substantially greater risk. Such cuts would be the largest in Medicaid’s history and would reduce general access to nursing home care and community-based long-term services and support. Currently, over seven million older
This is Part 3 of The Guardian’s investigation into UnitedHealth Group. Internal emails show that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” that showed how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use on nursing home residents. Additionally, two current and three former UnitedHealth NPs told the Guardian that managers from UnitedHealth pressured NPs to lie
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