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The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services' baseline budget request eliminates financing for some disabled people who are waiting to receive services in private homes, group homes or other community settings.
Experts warn of a shortage of qualified workers especially because of low wages, high turnover and a lack of training.
To provide better services, government officials need more concrete information about the needs of the disabled community, White House adviser says.
With the real estate market depressed, thousands of seniors are unable to move because they can't sell their homes.
Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports that the biggest cut to Medicare requires pharmaceutical companies to lower the rates for low-income beneficiaries.
The Veterans Health Administration has long used approaches Medicare is pushing on all hospitals to cut unnecessary readmissions. But new data show VA hospital patients are just as likely to end up back in a hospital bed.
Since the 1990s, nearly every developed country on the planet has reformed the way it finances long-term care for the frail elderly and adults with disabilities. Among the handful of exceptions: The U.S. and the United Kingdom.
Republican presidential candidates are often careful to not reveal during primaries how they would change health care in America, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is no exception. But examining Perry's legislative record gives a glimpse into just what he'd change if elected.
Within a few weeks of a shutdown of Medicare and Medicaid money, health care providers could be in financial trouble. No one knows how to plan for it.
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