Brokers get lush trips and cash perks to sell costly Medigap plans
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has issued a report urging oversight of insurance brokers who are being offered financial incentives to push more expensive plans.
Higher bills are leading Americans to delay medical care
Inflation and pressing household expenses are forcing many people to postpone health needs. Those numbers are far higher than 20 years ago, a Gallup poll...
Medicare Advantage plans often deny needed care, federal report finds
Federal investigators say there is troubling evidence that Advantage plans are delaying or even preventing Medicare beneficiaries from getting medically necessary care.
When omicron isn’t so mild
For those with underlying medical conditions, the latest pandemic wave has still posed a threat.
CDC shortens COVID-19 isolation period for health care workers
The agency also said that those workers who had received all recommended vaccine doses, including boosters, do not need to quarantine at home following high-risk...
Injunction blocks Biden’s vaccine mandate for health workers
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday to halt the start of President Joe Biden’s national vaccine mandate for health care workers, which had...
As COVID infections spread, nursing homes lag behind on the rollout for booster shots
Unlike last winter’s concerted federal push to vaccinate residents and staff in nursing homes, the booster rollout has been sluggish and piecemeal, health experts said....
Nursing homes confront new COVID outbreaks amid calls for staff vaccination mandates
With the elderly at nursing homes susceptible to breakthrough infections, inoculation of workers is becoming more urgent. After sharp drops in infections, the number of...
COVID forces families to rethink nursing home care
Even with coronavirus vaccines, many older people and their relatives are weighing how to manage at-home care for those who can no longer live independently.