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Explore how changing nursing home culture affects care
Any journalist who covers nursing homes should check out this month’s special supplement in The Gerontologist, the Gerontological Society of…
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Medicare Advantage proposal outlines strategies to promote value-based insurance and patient engagement
Buried deep in a proposal from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week was a proposal…
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House committee grills CMS executive on proposal to revise Medicare drug plan
A plan from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to eliminate protections for certain classes of drugs ran…
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A trend to watch: wellness trusts
“The idea of the wellness trust is to create a pool of money that can effectively address the social determinants…
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Seeking to contain costs for six protected drug classes, CMS faces wide opposition
Patient care advocates, drug companies, and both Republicans and Democrats are arguing against a proposal from the federal Centers for…
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A deeper look at the employer mandate and the work week
The employer mandate was pushed back for 2014 and is being phased in more gradually in 2015-16. What portion of…
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Are dental assistants in your state expanding their scope of practice?
Image by University of the Fraser Valley via flickr. There are more than 300,000 dental assistants at work across America…
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Are you covering a fakethrough?
Jonathan Latham, Ph.D. Remember the burger grown from stem cells? It might be a great idea, except a single patty…
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Excellent models exist for home-based mental health services
Providing mentally ill older adults with home based services can be logistically daunting and expensive. However, a study in the…
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Questions remain despite latest ACA enrollment numbers, projections
The latest ACA enrollment report (and the CBO projection that 6 million people would sign up for exchange coverage by…
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