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Senator Scrutinizes Physician Staffing Firms and Their Private Equity Owners by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today April 8, 2024   A Michigan senator has asked four emergency department staffing firms and the three private equity companies that own them for more information about their business practices following concerns raised by […]

ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees’ OK By Julie Appleby APRIL 2, 2024   Some consumers covered by Affordable Care Act insurance plans are being switched from one plan to another without their express permission, potentially leaving them unable to see their doctors or fill prescriptions. Some face large IRS bills for back taxes.

Here’s Why Nurses Are Exiting Healthcare by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today April 9, 2024   While planned retirement topped the list of reasons for nurses leaving healthcare, failures by employers also played a role, according to a cross-sectional study that analyzed survey data.   Among nearly 7,900 nurses who left the healthcare field

Yes, Congress Finally Funded Health Spending for 2024 by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today April 3, 2024   Something important for the world of healthcare happened very quietly a week and a half ago: President Biden signed the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill for HHS into law.   Biden signed the $1.2 trillion

Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits By Merrill Goozner April 8, 2024   Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehab and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The fall broke his leg in two places. A single nurse’s

‘If I don’t talk no one’s going to know’: Stories of pain from East Palestine move coalition members to action By Steve Mellon March 24, 2024   Lauri Harmon stepped from the crowd gathered in a community hall at the East Palestine Country Club around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon and told her story to a

Medicare Advantage in 2023: Enrollment Update and Key Trends By Nancy Ochieng, Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman August 09, 2023   Medicare Advantage enrollment has been on a steady climb for the past two decades following changes in policy designed to encourage a robust role for private plan options in

Liz Theoharis, This Can’t Be as “Good” as It Gets By Liz Theoharis March 10, 2024   It’s not complicated. This country, as TomDispatch regular and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Liz Theoharis makes clear today, is simply unprepared — unprepared, that is, to keep all too many Americans even reasonably healthy and well.

2024 World Happiness Report: Happiest countries revealed, US fails to crack top 20 By Julia Gomez March 20, 2024