Posted on 14 June 2022. Tags: caregivers, Elder Care, elderly, Healthcare, Medicaid, nursing homes, payments, resident care
The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and limit the amount that is used for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements or diverted to profits.
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Posted in Family Care, Health
Posted on 22 March 2022. Tags: elderly, eligibility, eligibility changes, Healthcare, long term care, medi-cal, Medicaid, nursing home care
Paying for long term care, whether in a nursing home or care at home, has been a major challenge for the elderly and disabled, because Medicare covers only a very short stay for nursing facilities, and custodial home care is very limited as well.
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Posted in Family Care, Pushback, Your Money
Posted on 05 October 2021. Tags: Biden, Build Back Better, Congress, Drug prices, Medicaid, Medicare, prescriptions
As President Joe Biden’s government overhaul stalls in Congress, tensions are mounting over what changes, if any, could come for Americans at the pharmacy counter.
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Posted in Health, Your Money
Posted on 19 February 2021. Tags: Administration, Biden, expansion, Healthcare, Medicaid, red states, Republicans
President Joe Biden has an unexpected opening to cut deals with red states to expand Medicaid, raising the prospect that the new administration could extend health protections to millions of uninsured Americans.
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Posted in Health
Posted on 04 November 2019. Tags: elderly, Home Care, long term care, Medicaid, Medicare For All
One of the most controversial health care debates in the upcoming federal elections is the creation of a single, federal-level, universal health insurance program known as “Medicare For All.”
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Posted in Features, Pushback
Posted on 01 November 2019. Tags: elderly, Healthcare, Managed Care, Medicaid, nursing homes
California and other states increasingly are moving their Medicaid patients into managed care, arguing that the model saves money and also improves members’ health by coordinating care.
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Posted in Family Care, Health