More Health Policy this week! Today, we discuss “SNPs” but this is not a podcast about haircuts during the pandemic.…
Investor money and venture capital funding is pouring into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Enrollment in MA plans has more than…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD Vivek Murthy was nominated for Surgeon General of the United States by President Obama in November…
by: Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD The patient was elderly and was hospitalized for a COPD exacerbation. Fortunately, her breathing problems were…
The United States spends more on health care than any other country. By far. Yet life expectancy in the United…
For the most part in geriatrics and palliative care we like to point the finger at other medical providers and…
This is the third post in a series on copyright in medicine. We started off the series with two posts.…
10 year stock price of Gentiva, the nation's fastest growing for-profit hospice provider For-profit hospice has been in the news recently,…
As reported in The Carlat Psychiatry Blog, the American Medical Association recently approved a report that may have substantial impacts…
Age discrimination can have many negative effects on the livelihoods of older people. Among these effects are poor health outcomes…