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| Oct 16, 2025 | Pear Suite Secures $7.6M: AI Powers Community Health Revolution | Pear Suite clinched $7.6 million in Series A funding. This digital health innovator empowers community health workers. Its AI platform closes critical care gaps. Investment fuels rapid network growth. It targets new Medicaid and Medicare co... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Pear Suite Raises $7.6M in Series A Funding | Pear Suite, a Los Angeles, CA-based digital health company empowering community health workers (CHWs), raised $7.6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Rock Health Capital and Nexxus Holdings, with support from Mucker Capital, Enable ... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Pear Suite: $7.6 Million Series A Raised For Expanding National Network Of Community Health Workers | Pear Suite, a digital health company focused on empowering community health workers (CHWs), announced it has raised $7.6 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform, scale its provider network, and extend its partnerships w... |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Nurse practitioners critical in treating older adults as ranks of geriatricians shrink | Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Last fall, doctors made the difficult decision to operate on her foot. Before the surgery, Ellen was always colorful, wearing purple, yellow,... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Dandelion Health Releases Report on AI Bias and Health Equity | Dandelion Health
Dandelion Health, with funding from The SCAN Foundation, has published a new report exploring both the opportunities and risks of clinical AI tools, based on their validation of algorithm performance and bias in historicall... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Bridging the AI Divide: Empowering Older Workers in the Age of Automation | The workplace is changing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s here, reshaping roles and redefining skills. Yet, a significant portion of the workforce, particularly those aged 45 and older, finds themselves... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | NEW RESEARCH FROM GENERATION REVEALS HOW MIDCAREER AND OLDER WORKERS EXPERIENCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE WORKPLACE | Employers in both the U.S. and Europe predict sharp declines (22%-64%) in hiring for entry-level and mid-level positions over the next 12 months
15% of workers aged 45+ across the U.S. and Europe report using AI at work — they are largely s... |
| Jul 8, 2018 | How geriatric assessments could improve cancer care for older patients | Fewer than 25 percent of older cancer patients currently get these assessments, which evaluate a person’s functioning (what he can and cannot do), psychological status, nutrition, cognition, social circumstances and other, coexisting medica... |
| May 11, 2017 | CMS extends deadline for states to comply with Medicaid service delivery rule for elderly, disabled | Among other things, the rule requires states to provide opportunities for enrollees to engage in community life, control their own money and seek employment in competitive settings. It also ensures that enrollees in group homes and other re... |
| May 23, 2016 | Medicare initiative Independence at Home sees cost cutting potential of house calls | In the first year of the experiment, Housecall Providers of Portland, Oregon, which had been operating at a loss, saved Medicare an average of almost $13,600 for each patient in the pilot project. Its share of the savings was $1.2 million. ... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | You don’t know everything you should about ACOs. So here’s an Accountable Care primer | ACOs have become one of the most talked about new ideas in Obamacare. Here are answers to some common questions about how they work:
What is an accountable care organization?
An ACO is a network of doctors and hospitals that shares financia... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Medicare proposal would reimburse physicians for end-of-life care planning | Her assertions greatly distressed Dr. Pamelyn Close, a palliative care specialist in Los Angeles.
“It did terrible damage to the concept of having this conversation,” she said.
Amid the ensuing political uproar, Congress deleted the provisi... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | ‘Parallel review’ pilot by FDA, CMS will speed up Medicare coverage for new cancer test | Although CMS has proposed covering the test, a final decision won’t be made until after a 30-day comment period.
Advocates say parallel review could be good for patients. “The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network is in support of t... |
| Jul 22, 2014 | CMS experiment tests the impact of eliminating ‘observation care’ penalties | If the experiment saves Medicare money and improves care, “we should be able to make an argument to Medicare that there is a way to do it for all our patients,” said Dr. Eric Weil, clinical affairs associate chief for the general internal m... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | A design overhaul from Action Pact puts the ‘home’ back in the nursing home model | The idea is that residents’ rooms are clustered around a common area, with a kitchen and living room. The size varies from four people in a private home to a bigger building with up to 20 people in “household” groups. Nursing assistants and... |
| Jun 23, 2014 | Understanding how Medicare calculates scores for hospital-acquired conditions | Later this year, Medicare will release the final scores in this Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program. Hospitals getting the penalty, which was created by the federal health law, will lose 1 percent of each Medicare payment fr... |
| Jun 23, 2014 | More than 750 hospitals face $330M in penalties for patient injuries, infections | A quarter of the nation’s hospitals – those with the worst rates – will lose 1 percent of every Medicare payment for a year starting in October. In April, federal officials released a preliminary analysis of which hospitals would be assesse... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Waiting – And – Waiting On The Nursing Home Inspector | “She suffered,” Mary Chiu, 56, said. “I don’t wish that on anybody.”
In September 2011, Mary Chiu sent a 7-page complaint to Los Angeles County public health officials requesting a thorough investigation of the nursing home where her mother... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | Decoding the high-stakes debate over Medicare Advantage cuts | The industry, which maintains the cuts will raise costs and reduce consumer benefits, has launched a massive national counterattack, running numerous “seniors are watching” ads, getting beneficiaries to pepper politicians with calls and let... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | Health officials grilled over nursing home inspections in Los Angeles | The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously ordered an audit Tuesday of how the public health department oversees nursing homes, after a news report revealed that managers told inspectors to close cases without fully investigati... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | 3 Key changes proposed for Medicare Part D | Those assurances are giving little comfort to Democratic and Republican lawmakers and patient groups who fear that the change will mean seniors and the disabled won’t get drugs they need. “Frankly, we are worried,” Carl Schmid, deputy execu... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | Medicare Part D critics: Why fix what isn’t broken? | The administration’s proposal would “touch everything from formularies to bidding, to the interaction between plans and pharmacies, to audit requirements, to which providers are going to be eligible to prescribe Part D drugs,” said Lisa Jol... |
| Feb 23, 2014 | Is the sky falling on Medicare Advantage seniors? | The health insurance industry points to these examples as some of the more extreme cases of beneficiaries feeling the sting of federal funding cuts to Medicare Advantage plans that cover nearly 16 million senior citizens. They say the Obama... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Obama administration proposes 1.9% cut in Medicare Advantage payments | America’s Health Insurance Plans said they are reviewing the details of the announcement to determine the total impact of the federal payment rates. In a statement, AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni was critical of the proposed rates, sa... |
| Dec 1, 2013 | Federal government wants more control over Medicare spending | Last year $62 billion — one out of every six dollars Medicare spent in the traditional fee-for-service program — went to nursing and therapy for patients in rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, long-term care hospitals and in their own... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | New rules require home healthcare agencies to pay minimum wage, overtime | For nearly 40 years, home care workers had been exempted from the pay rules because their services were considered “companionship.” But advocates, including organized labor organizations, had argued that these workers were often doing much ... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | Connecticut launches long-term care site to complement state’s health insurance marketplace | Some states are trying to step into the breach, testing their own ideas about how to address residents’ needs for services and to minimize the strain on Medicaid budgets. (Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor, i... |
| Jul 5, 2013 | More oversight, uniformity called for as states increasingly turn to privatized Medicaid | Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration held a June 2011 public hearing focused on the state’s Medicaid managed care plans in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).
States are required by the federal government to e... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | Pittsburgh study aims to break ‘vicious cycle’ of poor health and depression in older adults | “My pain is still there, but I can manage it better and I have a much more positive attitude,” says Belisle, whose emotional response to his chronic pain had put him at risk of becoming depressed. “If I feel I’m becoming upset these days, I... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Questions arise about robotic surgery’s cost, effectiveness | Robotic surgery is similar to conventional laparascopic surgery, in which surgical instruments are inserted into small incisions in a patient’s torso and manipulated by the surgeon. In robotic surgery, however, the surgeon sits at a console... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Questions about colon screening coverage still vex consumers | The task force recommends colorectal cancer screening for most adults starting at age 50. These tests include colonoscopy (in which a doctor inserts a flexible tube with a video camera at the end into the anus to examine the large intestine... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Same-sex spouses can face barriers on health care under federal law | Bosia says the difference in tax treatment at the state and federal levels creates headaches for the couple’s accountant at tax filing time.
Dealing with the different rules, he says, “takes more time and costs more.”
According to a report ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Large companies increasingly offering workers only high deductible health plans | Historically, one of the perks of working at a big company has been generous health benefits with modest out-of-pocket costs. But increasingly, large companies are offering their employees only one option: a plan with a relatively high dedu... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | Group appointments with doctors: when three isn’t a crowd | “With Obamacare, we’re going to get a lot of previously uninsured people coming into the system, and the question will be ‘How are we going to service these people well?’ ” says Edward Noffsinger, who has developed group-visit models and co... |
| Mar 7, 2013 | In conservative Arizona, government-run health care that works | The 9 million people nationwide who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid are by far the sickest and most expensive patients in the country. Known in policy circles as “dual eligibles,” their care costs federal and state governments s... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | Medical research, FDA and mental health programs face budget bite | But other health care efforts would be among the government programs that face reductions of about 9 percent, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The full impact likely won’t be felt for weeks as the cuts roll out, and some la... |
| Mar 1, 2013 | Hospital CEO starting planning for sequester cuts last year | A: It’s a $12 million number for us out of $2.5 billion in revenue on an annual basis.
Q: How do you prepare your staff and patients for this?
A: I don’t have to worry about the public too much because I think the local media has a done a g... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Long-term-care insurance about to get 40% more expensive for women | Genworth Financial says the new pricing reflects the fact that women receive two of every three claims dollars. The change will affect only women who buy new individual policies, or about 10 percent of all purchasers, according to the compa... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Study: Higher readmission rates don’t mean fewer deaths | “I feel we’ve dispelled the notion that your performance in mortality will dictate your performance in readmission,” said Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale University School of Medicine, the lead author of the study. “This result says they appear... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | FAQ on Medicare doctor pay: Why is it so hard to fix? | “For far too long, the only thing certain about the Medicare physician payment system has been uncertainty about the future,” House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton and Ways and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts wrote in a state... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Long waits for consumers when Medicare is ‘secondary payer’ | The Medicare beneficiary typically hires a lawyer, who contacts the legal representative for the other side. Often the parties try to reach a financial settlement rather than go to court.
In such cases, Medicare has generally paid the injur... |
| Jan 27, 2013 | Some state advocates for elderly, disabled people say outdated rules limit their work | But that’s not always the case. While ombudsmen in some states maintain their autonomy, in other states conflicts have erupted and government officials have been accused of trying to muzzle ombudsmen, especially when they publicly disagree ... |
| Nov 30, 2012 | State insurance commissioners: No way should we charge seniors more for Medigap policies | In a draft letter approved by the NAIC Senior Issues Task Force Friday, the commissioners said the idea could backfire and raise Medicare costs when seniors don’t receive the medical care they need. The letter, to Secretary of Health and Hu... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND AGING RELEASES GUIDELINES FOR $500,000 MEDICATION OPTIMIZATION DIFFUSION GRANTS PROGRAM | One-Year Grants Designed to Identify Ways to Rapidly Spread Technologies
That Can Reduce $290 Billion in Non-Adherence and
$47 Billion in Drug-Related Hospitalizations Annually in U.S.
HIMSS20 Digital
Learn on-demand, earn credit, find prod... |
| Questions about colon screening coverage still vex consumers | No one looks forward to screening tests for colon and rectal cancers. But under the Affordable Care Act, patients are at least supposed to save on out of-pocket costs for them. Coverage is not always clear, however, and despite the federal ... |
| Same-sex spouses can face barriers on health care under federal law | Mike Bosia and Steven Obranovich, of Hardwick, Vt., were married three years ago after Vermont legalized same-sex marriage. As Bosia’s spouse, Obranovich is entitled to health insurance through Bosia’s employer, Saint Michael’s College in C... |
| Obama administration proposes 1.9% cut in Medicare Advantage payments | Medicare Advantage plans could see payment reductions of 1.9 percent next year under proposed rates announced Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Insurers, who have led a fierce lobbying campaign against payment redu... |
| New rules require home healthcare agencies to pay minimum wage, overtime | The U. S. Department of Labor issued new rules Tuesday that mandate home health care agencies pay their workers the minimum wage and receive overtime pay starting in 2015.
“Almost 2 million home care workers are doing critical work, providi... |
| Health officials grilled over nursing home inspections in Los Angeles | The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously ordered an audit Tuesday of how the public health department oversees nursing homes, after a news report revealed that managers told inspectors to close cases without fully investigati... |
| Medicare proposal would reimburse physicians for end-of-life care planning | Remember the so-called death panels?
When Congress debated the Affordable Care Act in 2009, the legislation originally included a provision that would have allowed Medicare to reimburse doctors when they meet with patients to talk about end... |
| CMS extends deadline for states to comply with Medicaid service delivery rule for elderly, disabled | The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services without being forced to go into nursing homes.
Federal standards requiring states find ways of ... |
| State insurance commissioners: No way should we charge seniors more for Medigap policies | A key group of state insurance commissioners dealt a blow Friday to a proposal to shrink Medicare spending by asking seniors to pay more for Medicare supplemental coverage.
The health law requires the National Association of Insurance Commi... |
| Questions arise about robotic surgery’s cost, effectiveness | In the dozen years since the Da Vinci robot has been approved for surgeries in the United States, it’s been embraced by health care providers and patients alike. Surgeons routinely use the multi-armed metal assistant to remove cancerous pro... |
| Long waits for consumers when Medicare is ‘secondary payer’ | Anyone who sues for personal injury probably knows that the process may take time. But for Medicare beneficiaries, too often it’s not only the legal system that grinds slowly. Lawyers and policy experts say bureaucratic inefficiency at the ... |
| ‘Parallel review’ pilot by FDA, CMS will speed up Medicare coverage for new cancer test | Medicare beneficiaries may get speedier coverage for a newly approved screening test for colorectal cancer under a pilot project in which two federal agencies reviewed the product at the same time instead of one after the other.
The Cologua... |
| Medicare initiative Independence at Home sees cost cutting potential of house calls | Looking for ways to save money and improve care, Medicare officials are returning to an old-fashioned idea: house calls.
But the experiment, called Independence at Home, is more than a nostalgic throwback to the way medicine was practiced d... |
| You don’t know everything you should about ACOs. So here’s an Accountable Care primer | One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks that coordinate patient care and become eligible for bonuses when they deli... |
| More oversight, uniformity called for as states increasingly turn to privatized Medicaid | When the federal government recently gave Florida the green light to vastly expand its experiment with privatizing Medicaid, patient advocates quickly raised an alarm.
They cited serious problems with the state’s five-county pilot managed c... |
| Hospital CEO starting planning for sequester cuts last year | David P. Blom is one of thousands of hospital executives across the country who are bracing for a reduction in Medicare payments as part of a series of federal spending cuts that begin Friday. Blom, 58, is president and chief executive offi... |
| CMS experiment tests the impact of eliminating ‘observation care’ penalties | Medicare officials have allowed patients at dozens of hospitals participating in pilot projects across the country to be exempted from the controversial requirement that limits nursing home coverage to seniors admitted to a hospital for at ... |
| Medical research, FDA and mental health programs face budget bite | Doctors serving Medicare patients. Scientists looking for a better way to treat diabetes. HIV patients who can’t afford to buy their medications. These are but some of the many people who will be affected by the automatic federal spending c... |
| Some state advocates for elderly, disabled people say outdated rules limit their work | The 2.3 million elderly or disabled people living in nursing homes or assisted living centers might not know it, but they’ve got an advocate – someone who’s supposed to be looking out for their health, safety and rights.
In 2011, state long... |
| Medicare Part D critics: Why fix what isn’t broken? | Medicare’s prescription drug program was controversial when it arrived, but a decade later it is widely considered to be a Washington success story. Now, though, the Obama administration is proposing a series of significant changes to fix w... |
| Is the sky falling on Medicare Advantage seniors? | Seniors enrolled in Aetna’s Medicare Advantage plan In Baltimore County, Md., saw their monthly premiums rise from $33 to $51 this year.
Enrollees in HealthNow New York, a Medicare HMO in upstate Erie County, saw their premiums jump from ze... |
| FAQ on Medicare doctor pay: Why is it so hard to fix? | While physicians have sidestepped drastic Medicare payment cuts for 2013, doctors’ groups and lawmakers are gearing up for yet another battle to scrap the formula that forces Congress to consider the “doc fix” on a yearly basis.
For doctors... |
| Decoding the high-stakes debate over Medicare Advantage cuts | Health insurers often try to influence Washington through quiet persuasion in plush offices. To fight potential government cuts for private Medicare plans, however, they’ve hit the streets.
The Obama administration has proposed reducing wha... |
| Long-term-care insurance about to get 40% more expensive for women | Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will largely prohibit insurers who sell individual and small-group health policies from charging women higher premiums than men for the same coverage.
Long-term-care insurance, however, isn’t boun... |
| Federal government wants more control over Medicare spending | After years of trying to clamp down on hospital spending, the federal government wants to get control over what Medicare spends on nursing homes, home health services and other medical care typically provided to patients after they have lef... |
| In conservative Arizona, government-run health care that works | APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. – In a low-slung building in the vast desert expanse east of Phoenix, a small school of tropical fish peer out, improbably, from a circular tank into the waiting lounge of the Apache Junction Health Center. The hallwa... |
| Waiting – And – Waiting On The Nursing Home Inspector | Mary Chiu was shocked by the bed sores on her 85-year-old mother.
One on her backside was so deep it exposed the bone; others formed on her left leg, heel and big toe. Half a dozen times, Sui Mee Chiu had to receive hospital treatment for t... |
| Pittsburgh study aims to break ‘vicious cycle’ of poor health and depression in older adults | A year ago, Bernard Belisle was in a bad way. Pain throbbed in his legs all day, every day, and he was angry and irritable much of the time.
Then, he enrolled in a novel study on preventing depression in older adults at the University of Pi... |
| Group appointments with doctors: when three isn’t a crowd | When visiting the doctor, there may be strength in numbers.
In recent years, a growing number of doctors have begun holding group appointments — seeing up to a dozen patients with similar medical concerns all at once. Advocates of the appro... |
| Large companies increasingly offering workers only high deductible health plans | Historically, one of the perks of working at a big company has been generous health benefits with modest out-of-pocket costs. But increasingly, large companies are offering their employees only one option: a plan with a relatively high dedu... |
| How geriatric assessments could improve cancer care for older patients | In a move to improve cancer care for older adults, the American Society of Clinical Oncology is recommending that all patients age 65 and older receive a geriatric assessment when considering or undergoing chemotherapy.
The goal is to bette... |
| More than 750 hospitals face $330M in penalties for patient injuries, infections | During a hernia operation, Dorothea Handron’s surgeon unknowingly pierced her bowel and sent her home. It took five days for doctors to determine she had an infection. By the time they operated on her again, she was so weakened that she was... |
| Understanding how Medicare calculates scores for hospital-acquired conditions | A quarter of the nation’s hospitals in October will receive lower Medicare payments because their rates of patient complications are higher than their peers. Federal officials released a preliminary analysis in April scoring hospitals and p... |
| A design overhaul from Action Pact puts the ‘home’ back in the nursing home model | Mealtime. Naptime. Bath time. Bedtime. Everything is on a schedule for residents in a traditional nursing home, leaving little flexibility for personal decision making.
But LaVrene Norton is working to change that.
Norton is founder and pre... |
| 3 Key changes proposed for Medicare Part D | The Obama administration is proposing several changes to the Medicare drug program, also known as Part D. They range from new limits on the number of plans insurers could offer consumers to new rules about what drugs those plans must cover.... |
| Connecticut launches long-term care site to complement state’s health insurance marketplace | None of us wants to face it, but our chances of needing a caregiver when we’re older are pretty high – about two of out every three older Americans need help with “routine daily activities, such as eating, bathing, dressing, paying bills, a... |
| Study: Higher readmission rates don’t mean fewer deaths | Some hospitals with high readmission rates say they’re saving lives by bringing patients back at the first hint of trouble. The evidence for this is that a handful of hospitals with high readmission rates also have extremely low death rates... |
