MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hospice care is a compassionate and heartfelt enterprise, involving a medical team dedicated to maintaining a person’s comfort and dignity as they face the final curtain. Now, new research shows hospice is also incredibly cost-effective as a health care service, a new reportContinue Reading

MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A simple tweak in available vial sizes of the breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi could save Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year, a new analysis claims. About 6% of Leqembi (lecanemab) is discarded because patients are frequently prescribed doses lower than theContinue Reading

MONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Two new studies show insurers continue to deny claims for preventive care that is supposed to be free under Obamacare. And insurers are more apt to reject claims from patients who are Asian, Black or Hispanic as well as those with low incomes,Continue Reading

MONDAY, Aug. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The care of people seriously harmed by spinal cord injury can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a new analysis suggests that ability to pay influences how long a patient remains on life support. In a study of more than 8,400 U.S.Continue Reading

TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids more often get the psychiatric care they need if they live in states that mandate insurance coverage for child mental health care, a new study confirms. Parents and caregivers were 20% less likely to say they’d had trouble getting mental health servicesContinue Reading

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women and new moms have better access to treatment for mood disorders, thanks to Obamacare, a new study finds. More women received treatment for their pregnancy-related depression or anxiety after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, researchers reportedContinue Reading