About a month ago I heard on the news that Obamas new health care reform has passed Congress. Yeah? I got a couple of facts out of what I heard but not much, so I decided to look around the net and find the plan itself. I was going to read it line by line…
Tag Archive: Medicaid
New Nursing Home Ratings
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Web site now has a five star rating for 15,800 nursing homes. Many see this as a beginning for pay for performance for Medicare & Medicaid reimbursements. Nursing home owners see this system as not fair and incomplete. From one to five stars, five being the highest,…
The Uninsured and Cancer
Studies show that people who are not insured and those on Medicaid don’t go to the doctor until their cancers are advanced. Obviously this is not good because everyone knows or should know by now that there is a better chance of survival when tumors are caught early. Putting aside the fact that these people…