Most acute care hospitals do not admit representative proportion of Black Medicare patients in their local market: Study A study analyzing a large sample of Medicare admissions at nearly 2,000 acute care hospitals nationwide during 2019 found that most hospitals—nearly four out of five—admitted a significantly different ... 04/23/2024 - 5:40 am | View Link
What are the changes and updates to the Medicare system and how can they affect you? There were multiple price changes to Medicare for 2024 as continued inflation continues to sap spending power. 04/23/2024 - 4:55 am | View Link
Proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid could cost thousands of lives, study finds Proposed changes to the United States' Medicare and Medicaid programs could lead to thousands of additional deaths each year, a new Yale study reveals. The study was published April 22 in the ... 04/23/2024 - 4:27 am | View Link
Why is Medicare Part D’s IRMAA premium so high? Recently I received a letter from Social Security telling me that my monthly Medicare Part B premium of $174.70 would double to $349.40 per month due to 2022 reported income. That was no surprise, but ... 04/23/2024 - 1:19 am | View Link
Mark Farrah Associates Presents Medicare Plan Benefits in Medicare Benefits Analyzer™ Mark Farrah Associates (MFA), simplifies analysis of Medicare benefits and Star Quality Ratings information in Medicare Benefits Analyzer™ (MBA). This powerful web-based application presents the ... 04/22/2024 - 9:08 am | View Link
A new bill would prevent Clear customers from jumping to the front of the queue at security checkpoints. But Delta, United, and other carriers aren’t on board.
California could become the first state to transform backlash to services offering front-of-queue privileges into a law that targets TSA line-jumpers.
Enlarge / Cows being milked (credit: Getty | Edwin Remsberg)
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that genetic fragments from the highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 have been detected in the pasteurized, commercial milk supply. However, the testing completed so far—using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)—only detects the presence of viral genetic material and cannot tell whether the genetic material is from live and infectious viral particles or merely remnants of dead ones killed by the pasteurization process.
Testing is now ongoing to see if viable, infectious H5N1 can be identified in milk samples.
So far, the FDA still believes that the milk supply is safe.
Buried in the earnings release, Tesla did something it doesn’t typically do: It gave investors some firm dates on near-term plans.
There’s very little good news in Tesla’s Q1 earnings. Earnings per share and revenues both missed analyst expectations. Vehicle deliveries were at their lowest level since the third quarter of 2022.
Employees and suppliers were left blindsided after the Chicago-based grocery startups, which recently merged, abruptly shut down and laid off workers.
Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market, two popular Chicago-based grocery startups, abruptly ceased operations on Tuesday. The news comes five months after the two businesses announced they were merging into one entity, Outfox Hospitality.
The Traffic Coordination System for Space is designed to rely on minimal government infrastructure and will run on the AWS cloud.
Government IT projects are known for being challenging, and one of the biggest currently underway is the U. S. effort to forge a civil space traffic coordination platform.
By TOM KRISHER and DAVID HAMILTON (AP Business Writers)
Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55%, but its stock price surged in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company said it would accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles.
The Austin, Texas, company said it made $1.13 billion from January through March compared with $2.51 billion in the same period a year ago.
Investors and analysts were looking for some sign that Tesla will take steps to stem its stock’s slide this year and grow sales.