If your appeal isn't successful, your mother will be considered a private pay patient. While she will not have her benefits ...

Over the past few decades, the expenses associated with extended medical care, assisted living and nursing home facilities have surged. According to data from Genworth, the average cost of a private ...

Healthcare costs are likely to rise over the next year. This article explains why prices could spike and offers budgeting ...

Many people will need to stay in a nursing home at some point in their lives. How much care they'll need and how long they need to stay, however, can be hard to predict. And unfortunately, Medicare ...

Understanding the needs of high-need, high-cost community-based beneficiaries, including homebound status, will help Medicare ...

Medicare seems to offer more consistent care across states than other insurance programs; however, where beneficiaries live ...

This is evident in Idaho, where 37% of patients referred to home health care after hospitalization did not receive it last ...

Despite increasing Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment growth, the plans offering in-home support services decreased between ...

Medicaid payment rates given to the average nursing home covered about 82 cents per dollar of care costs for Medicaid residents, according to a recent federal government report. The “Assessing ...

Health care at any level is expensive, but at the top of the list is nursing home care. The national annual median cost of care for a resident in a private room in a nursing home is now $127,750, ...

A new government survey of 13,285 US nursing homes has found that the average provider received 82 cents on the dollar from Medicaid for the costs accrued while caring for beneficiaries. “Assessing ...