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The ad accused her of reducing healthcare funding to pay for electric cars.

The financial outlook for Medicare improved in the past year, and the program’s funding to pay all the costs for hospital services of older and disabled beneficiaries won’t run out until 2036, five years later than last year’s estimated date. A stronger than expected economy and lower expenditures on services such as inpatient hospital and…

Congressional Democrats demanded information about the corporate spending by the operators of three of the country’s largest public, for-profit nursing homes, after the companies said they can’t afford the Biden administration’s new minimum staffing threshold.  In letters sent to the companies Sunday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with…

Nursing homes will now need to have a minimum number of front-line caregivers for the first time under a new mandate announced by the Biden administration on Monday.  The final policy, revealed by Vice President Harris, is being implemented despite strong efforts by the nursing home industry and bipartisan lawmakers to oppose it, saying a federal standard is not possible…

According to a new report, contractors working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) limited the availability of tests for transplant patients that could detect early signs of organ rejection, despite expert doctors recommending the opposite. The Health Equity in Transplantation Coalition (HEiTC) revealed on Friday that a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered that Medicare…

Medicare may cover the popular weight loss medication Wegovy if the patients also have heart disease and need to lower the risk of future heart attacks, strokes, and other serious issues, as stated by federal officials on Thursday.

President Biden’s reelection campaign on Wednesday argued that the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget proposal was pulled straight from former President Trump’s wish list for another term. The group, which comprises nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, called for raising the retirement age for those not near retirement “to account for increases in life expectancy” in…

Roughly 12 Biden administration health officials will celebrate “Match Day” for medical students on Friday. They will visit various medical schools across the country and talk about President Biden’s health care plans. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra will go to a medical…

The legal claim alleges that Aledade Inc.’s billing applications and other software and guidance provided to doctors unlawfully increased revenues by adding exaggerated medical diagnoses to patients’ electronic medical records.