Home For The Holidays: Leaving The Nursing Home During A Medicare-Covered Stay November 15, 2018 Late November begins a time for gatherings with family and friends – Thanksgiving, soon followed by the December holidays. Nursing home residents often want to participate in these gatherings but may worry that they will lose Medicare coverage if they…
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Many doctors refusing care of people prescribed opioids
August 15, 2019 by Serena Gordon, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—Folks taking opioids for chronic pain may run into trouble if they need to find a new doctor. A new “secret shopper” survey of 194 Michigan primary care clinics found that as many as four out of 10 primary care doctors would turn away patients who have…
Changes in 2016 to Medicare
On March 2, 2016 I received a blog post from, “My Medicare Matters, National Council on Aging.” pertaining to up coming changes i the Medicare system and it was written in a very easy to understand way. I know some of you may not receive the updates sent out by either the Federal, State or by…
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