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‘Clash of the titans’: Disputes between Medicare Advantage plans and health care providers can leave older adults stuck in the middle

NC Health News

By Grace Vitaglione This article was written with the support of a journalism fellowship from The Gerontological Society of America, The Journalists Network on Generations and The Silver Century Foundation. Marian Spicer, 72, was treated for a kidney stone at Duke Health in late October. She got out of the hospital Nov.

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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

KFF Health News

Children younger than that suffer the highest rates of hospitalization of any age group except people 75 or older. adults, age 70 and older. Sanford achieved this by leveraging the size of the health system to make delivering vaccines more efficient, said Jeremy Cauwels , Sanford’s chief medical officer. where some 1.2

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

Frontiers

One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Under the terms of the deal, articles will be published under the CC-BY license and will be immediately and completely free to read.

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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

Medicare Advantage (Advantage), originally conceived in 1997 during the Clinton Administration as ‘Medicare + Choice’, has progressively grown and become an established health insurance option for those 65 and older. million, while trade associations representing the health insurance industry spent an equivalent amount. Introduction.

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Discussing the future of aging research with Specialty Chief Editors, Drs. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen and Richard Siow

Frontiers

In honor of the international day of Older Persons (October 1st) we spoke to the first onboarded Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Aging , Dr. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, and the most recently joining Specialty Chief Editor Dr. Richard Siow.

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STAT’s “Denied by AI” series a model of solid investigative journalism

Association of Health Care Journalists

The articles by Bob Herman and Casey Ross detailed the dangers of using an artificial intelligence-driven algorithm to assist doctors and insurance case managers in making health care decisions for patients. At the same time, there was no accounting for variances in the patients’ health status, Herman and Ross explained.

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Engineers: Heal Thyselves (and Health Care)

The Health Care Blog

By KIM BELLARD The article I can’t get out of my head is one by Greg Ip in The Wall Street Journal : Crises at Boeing and Intel Area National Emergency. I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age.