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How Medicare’s Home Health Cuts Disproportionately Affect Women
The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to cut or increase categories of Medicare spending. Last year, then-HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced home health care funding would be slashed by 3.5…
Dr. Salvatore Iaquinta’s Highway to Health: Rethinking post-surgical recovery
No, you won’t become the bionic woman. But every now and then something comes along that puts into question the way doctors have been doing thing for decades. Right now that thing is Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS). ERAS is how to…
Retirement Reckoner
Retiring is challenging for almost everyone. But if you’re a small-business owner, preparing to hand your company to your children can create an even bigger knot of anxiety—worries about financial security, the legacy of your life’s work and the prospects…
Could You Soon Lose Your Job to a Robot?
Is the increasing automation of our economy a threat to American wages and jobs? Should the American worker fear the rise of the robots? No, not really. Eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes warned that society faced “a new disease” of “technological unemployment”…
Only Two Years Until Social Security’s Disability Fund Runs Out
The Social Security disability trust fund is only two years away from exhaustion, Social Security’s Board of Trustees announced Monday, while saying that Medicare’s finances appear to have strengthened, thanks to slowing growth in the cost of health care. The…
Retirement Planning Hurdles That Generation X Must Overcome
A quick Google search for “Generation X and retirement” results in a mix of relatively negative predictions for these 30- and 40-somethings’ financial futures. But if you’re a Gen-Xer — or a concerned parent or grandparent of one — take…
Social Security Disability Beneficiaries Facing 20% Cut in Benefits
After five consecutive years of deficits, the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Trust Fund will run dry in just two years.[1] If Congress does not act before 2016, benefits will be cut across the board by almost 20 percent. This…
CMS Recognizes Telehealth in New Physician Fee Schedule
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued proposed rules for updates to the Physician Fee Schedule and will accept comments until Sept. 2, according to an article published July 7 in Medical Economics. According to Medical…
Is inflation coming back?
Inflation: The Chicken Little problem of the last five years. Everyone thought it — or worse, hyperinflation — was coming. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve was worrying about deflation. Our central bank targeted a 2 percent inflation rate as healthy and…
House Ways and Means Committee passed the ABLE Act, legislation that would helps those with disabilities
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, announced Friday the House Ways and Means Committee passed the ABLE Act, legislation that would helps those with disabilities and their families get savings accounts and plan for their financial futures. Reed stated he is…