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29 States Have 'Filial Responsibility Laws' Requiring Adult Children To Care For Their Elderly Parents
As children of boomers are finding out, some states have a solution to this that strikes many as outright infuriating. 29 ...
Maine Proposes Major Staffing Increases for Assisted Living and Residential Care Facilities
The proposed regulations come after an 18-month investigation by The Maine Monitor and ProPublica found dozens of violations ...
Living on $600 a month? Seniors over income limit can struggle to afford Medi-Cal
In California, elderly or disabled people who make too much money to qualify for its Medicaid program can still access it if ...
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Applying Legal And Clinical Quality Standards To ‘Food Is Medicine’
At a time when policy and practice is moving toward coverage of Food Is Medicine (FIM) as benefits in insurance programs, it ...
White House Proposes Big Expansion of Medicare, Medicaid Coverage of Obesity Drugs
More than seven million additional Americans could get coverage for popular drugs such as Zepbound and Wegovy under the ...
Cheap Ozempic? How millions of Americans with obesity may get access to costly weight-loss drugs
Millions of obese Americans would get access to popular weekly injectables that would help them shed pounds quickly if a $35 ...
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CMS Approves New 1115 Waiver Demonstrations for Continuous Coverage
On November 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced approval of Section 1115 demonstration amendments for Colorado, ...
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CMS issues final rule for mandatory organ transplant payment model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 26 released a final rule for the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model.
Medicare Would Cover Ozempic and Wegovy Under Biden Proposal—Here's What That Means
The Biden administration proposed a rule to let Medicare and Medicaid cover obesity drugs like Ozempic. Millions would ...
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CMS releases proposed rule for 2026 Medicare Advantage, prescription drug plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 26 proposed changes to increase oversight of the Medicare Advantage and ...
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Submission to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women and girls ahead of their upcoming report to the Human Rights Council on ...
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AARP’s new CEO vows to protect Social Security, Medicare, and ensure older adults age ‘on their own terms’
It’s a salient time for the AARP, the non-profit that has been advocating for the over 110 million American adults aged 50 and ... officer of The Dimock Center in Massachusetts, replaces Jo ...