May 10, 2022 | News
From KHN.org (Kaiser Health News) — The Biden administration has identified core impediments to better nursing home care in its proposed overhaul of the industry, but turning aspirations into reality will require a complex task: adding workers. Trickier yet, the...
May 3, 2022 | News
From USA Today — BY KEN ALLTUCKER — A government watchdog report released Thursday, April 28, found private Medicare plans routinely rejected claims that should have been paid and denied services that reviewers found to be medically necessary. The report, completed...
Apr 26, 2022 | News
From Stars and Stripes — BY NIKKI WENTLING — WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday, April 25, that it created a fast-track to disability compensation for veterans who developed one of nine rare respiratory cancers because of their...
Apr 19, 2022 | News
From NextAvenue.org — Surveys show that most people would prefer to grow older, and even die, in their own home. This desire isn’t hard to understand. While you may have already downsized to a more manageable home or condo, you won’t have to move again,...
Apr 12, 2022 | News
From the Associated Press — WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Thursday, April 7, that it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program...
Apr 5, 2022 | News
From NPR — By DOHA MADANI — Jean White’s mother has dementia and moved into a memory care facility near Tampa, Fla., just as coronavirus lockdowns began in the spring of 2020. For months, the family wasn’t allowed to go inside to visit. ...
Mar 29, 2022 | News
From NBC News — By DOHA MADANI — Amanda Bynes’ conservatorship was terminated March 22 without public contention or fanfare. But disability advocates say her case is not the norm, and warn against using Bynes as evidence that conservatorships don’t...
Mar 22, 2022 | News
From STAT — By RACHEL COHRS — WASHINGTON — Whether seniors get an unprecedented mid-year discount on Medicare premiums will hinge on a forthcoming decision about how the program will cover a pricey, controversial new Alzheimer’s drug that is expected by mid-April....
Mar 15, 2022 | News
From Kaiser Health News — By LAUREN WEBER — Divya Goel, a 35-year-old deaf-blind woman in Orlando, Florida, has had two telemedicine doctors’ appointments during the pandemic. Each time, she was denied an interpreter. Her doctors told her she would have to get...
Mar 8, 2022 | News
From HRMagazine.com — Avoid assumptions about what team members can do. By LISA RABASCA ROEPE Employees with disabilities often believe they don’t have the same opportunities for advancement within their companies as employees without disabilities do. Overall,...
