Medicare & Aging 062920
If You’ve Lost Your Health Plan In The COVID Crisis, You’ve Got Options
By Julie Appleby
But some of those options, like special enrollment periods, are time-sensitive.
Si perdiste tu seguro de salud por la crisis de COVID-19, tienes opciones
By Julie Appleby
Algunos pueden adquirir un seguro de salud bajo ACA apelando a un período especial de inscripción. Otros descubren que pueden aplicar para Medicaid. Hay alternativas pero el tiempo corre.
Pandemic Forced Insurers To Pay For In-Home Treatments. Will They Disappear?
By Julie Appleby
With stay-at-home orders in place, hospitals experimented with delivering many treatments to patients where they lived. They were a success. As society reopens, the return of old payment practices may prevent the adoption of this new, efficient model of care.
Montana’s Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Some of Montana’s Native American nations are holding firm on coronavirus protections even as the rest of Montana reopens. They’ve got more at stake, they say, in protecting their elders who preserve their endangered culture.
When A Doctor No Longer Accepts Medicare, Patients Left Holding The Bag
By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
As doctors look for alternative ways to charge patients for care, some Medicare enrollees may lose access to their physicians.
Federal Help Falters As Nursing Homes Run Short Of Protective Equipment
By Jordan Rau
More than 3,000 nursing homes reported less than a week’s worth of supplies, and 653 said they had run out entirely at some point. Stopgap FEMA equipment has not reached many facilities, and packages that have arrived have fallen short of promises.
Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection
By Judith Graham
On their own in dirty buildings with little guidance or support, vulnerable older residents worry about unchecked transmission of the potentially deadly virus. “We felt abandoned.”
Readers And Tweeters Ponder Racism, Public Health Threats And COVID’s Cost
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