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Medicaid expansion good for Maryland
Thank you for your recent article on a study of Medicaid the New England Journal of Medicine that addressed the role of Medicaid in promoting mental health and protecting families from financial ruin ("Study: Medicaid has mixed record in improving health,...
Tags: Medical Research, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Mental Health
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Did Legislature do its job for us?
The Great Recession hit Florida harder than most states, with unemployment far exceeding the national average. Government revenue dried up, but to its credit, the Legislature tightened its belt rather than raise taxes. Today, Florida is bouncing back....Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Pension and Welfare, Finance, Environmental Pollution
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Overselling Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- It's the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"): People should not be denied health care because they can't afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Finance, Health Insurance, Heart Attack, Healthcare Policies
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Comparing healthcare prices
With increasingly wide-ranging costs for medical procedures, here are some resources to help you find and understand medical prices. • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Data base shows charges for the 100 most common hospital-based...Tags: Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Insurance, Prices, Medicare
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...Tags: Pneumonia, Insurance, Medicare, Prices, Consumers
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Medicare a 'sacrificial lamb' for budget cutters
It is said that the true measure of a society is reflected in how well it treats its elderly population. If so, this country is in a severe downward spiral. While the realization that we have been spending well beyond our means has finally registered with...Tags: Allentown, Medicare, Barack Obama, Finance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Power of attorney urged for selling parent's home
Q: My mother had to be moved to a nursing home from her "independent living" house. This is a very small retirement community and is connected to an assisted-living facility. People who live in the independent homes can move into assisted living easily...Tags: Justice System, Finance, Rentals, Health Insurance, Nursing Homes
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For Wal-Mart, should healthcare be a cost of doing business?
Big employers beware -- some California lawmakers want to pressure you to extend health insurance to virtually everyone who lands on your payroll, even part-timers who work less than two hours a day. That's one of the effects that a bill by...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Justice System, Employment, Career and Workplace, Health Insurance
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...Tags: Pneumonia, Insurance, Medicare, Consumers, Healthcare Policies
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California ranks 11th in hospitals with A grades for safety
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center improved slightly from an F to a D in a national hospital safety report released Wednesday, while Cedars-Sinai Medical Center stayed at a C grade. Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit healthcare quality organization, based the...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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Hospital rates vary significantly, Medicare data show
Johns Hopkins Hospital charged $13,667 on average to treat one admission of a Medicare patient with diabetes in 2011, while a couple of miles away Mercy Medical Center billed an average of $8,425. The University of Maryland Medical Center charged $9,045...
Tags: Medicare, Annapolis, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health Insurance, FTI Consulting Inc.
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Interests of candidate, supporter and spouse align
WASHINGTON — An issue at the top of U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz's legislative agenda is also of foremost concern to her biggest campaign contributor: the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband is a doctor. Schwartz, a suburban Philadelphia...
Tags: General Practitioners, Politics, Medicare, University of Pennsylvania, Health and Safety at School
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