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President’s proposed budget slashes health department by 12% while throwing $1.5tn – a 42% increase – to the militaryAmericans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States –which could be dealt with via prevention or proper …
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have endangered the elderlyThree nursing home residents died because employees of the American healthcare gia…
Mehmet Oz made claim about audits, but experts say he misidentified routine administrative errorsThe administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mehmet Oz, recently claimed that an audit revealed “more than $1bn of federal ta…
Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitalsPrivate equity acquisition of hospitals have led to an increase in deaths among emergency department patients receiving Medicare, accordin…
Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the healthcare conglomerate on Thursday citing a Guardian investigationRevealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfersUS lawmakers are asking UnitedHealth Group, the nation…
Pilot program, first pitched under Biden, will cover GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic to address chronic obesity in USThe Trump administration is planning a pilot program to cover “miracle” weight loss drugs under the government health insurance systems for…
Democratic leader spoke for more than eight hours to rail against Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending billThe Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the record for the longest House floor speech ever on Thursday after he spoke for more than eight hours …
Prosecutors allege more than a million Medicare recipients had their information stolen and used by the defendants for fraudulent claimsUS federal prosecutors charged 11 people on Friday in a Russia-based scheme to bilk Medicare – the American health i…
Attention comes in wake of ex-employees’ allegations that insurer paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers and used improper tactics to gain Medicare Advantage enrolleesUS lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are raising concerns and seeking inv…
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residentsUS nursing home employees: do you have information about UnitedHealth’s nursing ho…