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• Arogyasri rates get docs’ nod

  
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  Private doctors and the Arogyasri Health Care Trust have finally agreed to a mutual price hike of 25 per cent on all medical procedures and also obtained a promise from the state government to the effect that they would not … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• Nursing Home Chain Accused of Overbilling for Excess Care

  
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  Every year, Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars on unnecessary medical tests and treatments.  Often times, that care goes to the elderly and all taxpayers end up paying for it through Medicare. CBS News has been investigating Life Care Centers of America, one of the largest nursing home chains in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Elder Law Month: What Does Medicare Cover for Nursing Homes?

  
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  As part of National Elder Law Month, our North Carolina elder law attorneys are providing a series of posts to help educate senior citizens and their loved ones who care for them about their legal options.  Medicare helps many seniors afford necessary healthcare services. All individuals over age 65 qualify for ...
  2 weeks ago

• REITs Pulling Back from Nursing Home Industry

  
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  The Wall Street Journal issued a report this week on the growing trend in health- care owners veering away from nursing homes. The report states that “some of the nation’s largest health-care landlords are pulling back from nursing homes on concerns they will be less profitable in an era of steep Medicare and ...
  3 weeks ago

• North Carolina Voting Restrictions Proposed for Mentally Incompetent

  
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  A recent North Carolina Senate proposal for the ballots in November of 2014 is an amendment to remove the right to vote in North Carolina for individuals who have been determined incompetent by a court of any state. If passed into law, Senate Bill 668 will take the right to vote away from many senior citizens and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Consumer Search Trends for Senior Care Services

  
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  Written by: Alyssa Gerace Even though the number of senior care options has expanded in the past couple decades as different models have developed and evolved, consumer trends have stayed much the same with some small adjustments following the Great Recession. The Google Trends chart below shows consumer interest ...
  3 weeks ago

• Health and human services omnibus bills make good investments using wrong resources

  
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  When the House and Senate released their committee targets in March, we were surprised that the health and human services budget division was required to cut $150 million in the House and $153 million in the Senate. After years of reductions to critical services for Minnesota’s most vulnerable, including $1 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Populations: Analysis of Health Costs

  
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  Much of the story about rising health costs and spending has to do with relatively small groups of people with expensive health needs. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) estimates Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions accounted for 93 percent of Medicare ...
  3 weeks ago

• CABS Rates 5 Stars from Caregiverlist

  
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  Caregiverlist, the only online resource that lets families search nursing homes by both quality of care and cost, has issued its annual “5-Star Ratings” list, based on data from more than 18,000 nursing homes.Only 234 of the 18,000 received 4+ stars.Factors weighed by Caregiverlist include Medicare star rating, ...
  3 weeks ago

• We Need Video Security Cameras In Nursing Homes… We Need Them Now!

  
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  It’s totally appalling and bizarre to see that people who are employed to take care of our elderly seniors and great veterans have taken it on themselves to hurt and inflict them with pains instead of taking care of them. I recently heard of an elderly woman who simply broke into tears while trying to [...] ...
  4 weeks ago

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