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Opinion: Upcoding: one reason Medicare Advantage companies pay clinicians to make home health checkups

19.01.2023

At the start of 2023, an estimated 2.5 million Americans age 65 and older began using Medicare Advantage programs. Some made this choice in response to aggressive marketing campaigns. This …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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Coronavirus

Congress reaches major health policy deal on Medicare, Medicaid, and pandemic preparedness

19.12.2022

WASHINGTON — Leaders in Congress have reached a sweeping deal to ease Medicare pay cuts to doctors, make major changes to post-pandemic Medicaid policy, and to help prepare for future pandemics. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: If you think health care is dysfunctional now, just wait until after January 1

08.12.2022

Doctors across the country, especially those in primary care, have been up in arms about Medicare’s proposed cuts in reimbursement that are scheduled to go into effect on January 1. …

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Coronavirus

In a Republican-led House, probing science agencies tops the agenda

17.11.2022

WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 investigations are coming. When Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in January, as the AP projected Wednesday, they’ve made it clear that probing President Biden’s …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Replace the failure of Medicare Advantage with ‘Medicare Part F’

15.11.2022

Medicare Advantage began life as a brilliant idea: a public-private partnership to keep older people healthier and reduce costs. At the time in 1992, both President George H.W. Bush and …

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Coronavirus

A Democratic Senate improves the outlook for Biden health and science priorities, including key nominees

13.11.2022

WASHINGTON — The outlook for the White House’s health and science priorities just got a whole lot brighter. With a Democratic Senate, as the Associated Press projected Saturday night, it …

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Pharma

Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching

07.11.2022

WASHINGTON — The midterm elections this year are centered on weighty topics: the economy looms large, as does the existential future of democracy. But there are plenty of health and …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

26.10.2022

Terry Wilcox’s grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, “the day …

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