by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
Details of how the bipartisan bill rewriting Medicare reimbursement of doctors, awaiting congressional approval this month, would squeeze savings from the health care program for the elderly: -Current law: Most people pay $105 monthly for medical coverage, which is 25...
by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
Republicans said bipartisan legislation that reworks how Medicare pays doctors is a milestone toward curbing a huge, growing benefit program.
by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
Ventas Inc. will pay $1.75 billion for Ardent Medical Services Inc. and will spin off most of its skilled nursing facilities into a publicly traded real estate investment trust. Ventas, which is a real estate investment trust focusing on health care facilities, is...
by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
Blues legend B.B. King was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital this past weekend for a diabetes-related emergency, TMZ reports.
by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
The study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs breaks the cost down as follows: $2.8 billion resulting from false-positive mammograms and another $1.2 billion attributed to breast cancer overdiagnosis. That’s the treatment of tumors that grow slowly or...
by Research Team | Apr 7, 2015 | Health News
When research teams planning clinical trials of Ebola vaccines were divvying up West Africa last fall, no one wanted Guinea. Six months later the last player chosen seems likely to be the only one capable of crossing the finish line.
