The summer season is upon us, and we are heading quickly to the end of the federal government’s fiscal year, September 30th. That’s the date funding for the government for FY2024 runs out, and Congress is supposed to hav ...
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HHS Delivers Strategic Framework for National Plan on Aging
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Administration for Community Living, has released “Aging in the United States: A Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging.” The report lays the ground ...
President and Congress Search for Ways to Better Protect American’s Health Information
Last February, it was discovered that Change Healthcare had been the victim of a cyberattack and that up to a third of Americans had their private health information exposed. While the full extent of the hack has yet to ...
Lawmakers Urge Government to Finalize Rules to Boost Competition and Lower Drug Prices
In what could be another weapon in the battle against high drug prices, two Democratic lawmakers, one in the Senate and one in the House, have sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to finalize rules that c ...
House of Representatives Holds Hearing on Future of Social Security
The Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual report on the financial status of the Social Security programs in May. Both the Trustees and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) project that Social Security ...
2025 COLA Projection 2.66%
For immediate release: May 15, 2024 April CPI-W Comes in at 3.4% The April CPI-W (Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers) came in at 3.4%. That's slightly lower than the inflation trends ...
March 2024
At Last, Congress Funds Government for Current Fiscal Year They were six months past their deadline but in late March Congress finally managed to pass the last legislation needed to fund the government for fiscal year ...
The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients By Judith Graham March 27, 2024 KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when ...
Biden Administration Proposes Pay Increases for Hospitals, Hospice Providers
Nursing homes, hospice providers, and inpatient psychiatric facilities would all see Medicare pay hikes next year under proposals recently released by the Biden administration. Hospice providers would get an additiona ...
Seniors Targeted by Scams that could Cost Medicare Billions
According to an article in Newsweek, seniors relying on Medicare for their health care are being targeted by a widespread "phantom billing" scam that has the potential to rob them of thousands of dollars. Phantom bill ...
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