For those living in rural areas of Hawai‘i, a missed flight is not just an inconvenience — it can become a missed diagnosis, ...

The powerful health industry lobby couldn't persuade GOP lawmakers to oppose big Medicaid cuts in President Trump's tax and ...

Stair lifts are deemed to be a permanent alteration to your home rather than removable medical equipment. Unlike stair lifts, ...

Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services ...

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals.

As with a tree falling in a forest that no one hears, there is still a sound, though not detected; likewise when there is a ...

CMS acknowledged it is shifting the general focus from prevention to wellness. It proposes removing 10 quality measures that, it said, did not directly improve patient health outcomes and adding five ...

A San Fernando Valley man has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare out of nearly $16 million through a network of sham hospice companies and laundering the proceeds to conceal the scheme, federal ...

Health care coverage is on the minds of many these days, as we consider what changes at the federal level might mean for those covered by Medicare and Medicaid. Here in West Virginia, approximately 19 ...

Thanks to Dr. Oz’s decisive leadership, this rule modernizes CMS payment systems, eliminates perverse incentives, and ...

The firing of thousands of federal employees shows how important it is to decouple health coverage from employment. Financial ...