The plan would shift much long-term care from Medicaid to Medicare. It would for anyone with a significant need for care but ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isn’t just one condition. It’s a family of diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis that interfere with your breathing. In chronic bronchitis, ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

States have increasingly outsourced the provision of Medicaid services to private managed care plans. To ensure that plans maintain access to care, many states set network adequacy standards that ...

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer do not fit neatly into pediatric or older adult oncology care settings. Recent efforts have led to the development of psychosocial interventions for AYAs ...

The figures are bracing: About half of people turning age 65 will require some type of paid long-term care in their lifetimes. Women will need 3.7 years of care, on average, while males will need an ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Nearly ten years after Kara Kenan of North Carolina finished treatment for advanced breast cancer, her routine bloodwork ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Facing pressure to address affordability concerns, President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a series of measures aimed at lowering drug prices and health insurance costs as he ...

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