California State

Fortune

People very limited financial resources may qualify for Medicaid to help pay for health costs not covered by Medicare. Health care expenses often increase as people age, due to more health challenges and care needs. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. adults ages 65 and over...

Who is eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid?

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Jesse Slome

This summer millions of seniors on Medicare will travel away from home. Many will travel to visit another state. Millions will travel internationally. Few people anticipate a health issue when away from home. But they happen especially to seniors who are older and may already have some pre-existing health issues. Knowing what Medicare does and does not cover when you travel away from home can save you a lot of money and heartache.

Medicare Does Not Cover All Costs When Seniors Travel

Axios

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries account for a growing share of patients admitted to hospitals, making facilities increasingly reliant on private insurers and subject to pre-treatment approvals or claims denials, according to a new KFF analysis. Why it matters: The findings help explain the growing tensions between hospitals and insurers that have...

Private Medicare drives more hospital inpatient care

New York State

Dicle Belul

Democratic U.S. Congressman Pat Ryan of New York has proposed the Improving Access to Emergency Medical Services for Seniors Act, aiming to introduce at-home care services under Medicare coverage. The bill advocates for a "treatment-in-place model" to provide minor health issue treatment at home, eliminating the need for Medicare patients to be transported to hospitals for reimbursement. This change attempts to alleviate the financial burden on taxpayers and recognizes the essential role of emergency medical service providers.

Expanding Medicare: Enhancing Care for Seniors

New York City, NY

Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

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Bucks County Beacon

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are less likely to receive intensive treatments or burdensome transfers during the last six months of life compared to those in traditional Medicare, a new study has found. MA enrollees were also more likely to receive hospice care and less likely to receive facility-based care after...

Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Less Likely to Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care

Illinois State

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

Virginia State

In Virginia, Drinking in public or offering another person alcohol in a public space is prohibited. This is a class 4 Misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.00. Under a new law that goes into effect on July 1, this will change to a degree.WDBJ7 reports that the prohibition on drinking or offering an alcoholic beverage to someone else in public will no longer apply under the following conditions.

Drinking in public will no longer be prohibited on private Campgrounds in Virginia beginning July 1

The Biden administration said on Wednesday that Medicare enrollees will pay less for 64 prescription drugs available through Medicare Part B. The savings are part of a program established with the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 and is meant to rein in drug price hikes — a key goal of the Biden Administration.

The Biden administration is lowering the price of 64 prescription drugs with inflation rebates

Long Beach, CA

The New Republic

An ugly quote from J.D. Vance just surfaced in which he described Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders as “childless cat ladies” and spun out a whole theory based on this absurdity. Then Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sharply dressed down Vance for poking his nose into other people’s family decisions. With this response, Buttigieg showed that Vance has invited a much larger national conversation—one that won’t help Vance and Donald Trump. We talked to Melissa Gira Grant, a staff writer at The New Republic who closely tracks Vance’s ideas, for help in illuminating what this saga tells us about the new right’s tortured views on gender, natalism, and nationalism. Listen to this episode here.

Pete Buttigieg Destroys J.D. Vance’s Ugly “Childless Cat Lady” Smear

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new data on risk adjustment payments for 2023. The agency said (PDF) insurers participating on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges will pay $10.3 billion as part of the risk adjustment program. Risk adjustment state transfers as a percent of premiums declined from 2022, according to the report.

CMS: Insurers to make $10.3B in 2023 risk adjustment payments

Does a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris saying that young adults "are stupid" accurately reflect what she said in a 2014 speech about crime prevention? No, that's not true: The full transcript shows that when she said 18- to 24-year-olds "are stupid" and "make really bad decisions", she was including her college-aged self. A social media video snippet stripped away important context: her proposal was to treat young adults in and out of college with the same patience if they make mistakes.

Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Seriously Call 18- To 24-Year-Olds 'Stupid' -- It Was Sympathy About Young Adults' Decision-Making Maturity

Connecticut Public

There’s a recurring fantasy running through Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel, Someone Like Us: It’s a fantasy about a word-of-mouth, nation-wide network of taxi cabs that would come to the aid of "immigrants, migrants, refugees, anyone who was in the wrong place and needed to be somewhere else but didn’t know how to get there.” The drivers would be immigrants themselves and, therefore, more trustworthy to their nervous passengers.

'Someone Like Us' is a fresh, idiosyncratic novel about immigrating to the U.S.

Medicare Advantage enrollees were less likely to receive burdensome treatments or transfers in the last months of life compared to their peers in traditional Medicare, a study published July 19 in JAMA Health Forum found. MA beneficiaries were less likely to die in a hospital than their counterparts in traditional...

How Medicare Advantage, traditional Medicare differ on end-of-life care

New Jersey State

Morristown Minute

A new initiative aims to provide housing for vulnerable Medicaid members, enhancing community wellness and support. MORRIS COUNTY, N.J. - In a significant move to tackle housing instability among Medicaid recipients, New Jersey's Human Services Commissioner Sarah Adelman, along with Community Affairs Commissioner Jacquelyn A. Suárez, today announced the availability of $95 million in funding for developers. This initiative, part of the Healthy Homes program, is designed to create affordable housing opportunities for NJ FamilyCare members who are either homeless, at risk of homelessness, or currently living in institutional settings.

$95 Million for Healthy Homes: Housing for Medicaid Members

Ohio State

The Hill

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who was tapped as former President Trump’s running mate Monday, has been in the Senate for less than two years but has staked out health care positions that both buck his party and toe the GOP line. Vance is a Yale-educated venture capitalist, but rode the wave of Trump-era populism to…

JD Vance’s views on health care: What to know

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California tries but fails to fix a major Medicare loophole for seniors

Many seniors are grateful when they turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare. But to get enrolled they first have to make a big decision —...

California tries but fails to fix a major Medicare loophole for seniors

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