Blue Shield Again Owes Californians Millions In Health Care Rebates
About 240,000 Californians with job-based health coverage may have been surprised by a recent letter from Blue Shield of California saying the company owes them money, not the other way around. (Pauline Bartolone/Kaiser Health News)
CMS Names Recovery Audit Contractor for Home Health
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has chosen its second round of national Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs), including the first-ever that will be focused exclusively on durable medical equipment, home health, and hospice (DME/HH-H) claims. (Alana Stromowski/Home Health Care News)
Disabled And Disenfranchised: Families Fight To Restore Voting Rights
Across the country, thousands of people with appointed guardians routinely lose the right to vote. (Shoshana Walter/Reveal News)
Another Reason To Put Down Your Phone—Especially When You’re Outside
UV exposure is increased when rays are reflected off water, sand and even concrete (runners, take note). Any shiny surface can reflect UV rays, and this study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology identifies yet another source of UV reflectance: Your cell phone. (Leslie Baumann/Miami Herald)
Young Adolescents as Likely to Die From Suicide as From Traffic Accidents
That grim fact was published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They found that in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, the suicide rate for children ages 10 to 14 had caught up to th
