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The Medicare website is seen on a computer in New York on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rachel Leathe)

Medicare Part B premiums to rise 6% in 2025, agency says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An unused gurney rests in the emergency room hallway outside one of the treatment rooms at the Alliance Healthcare System hospital in Holly Springs, Miss., Feb. 29, 2024. Rural emergency hospitals are starting to gain a small foothold in the United States. They provide 24/7 emergency care and receive more than $3 million in federal money a year. But the catch is there are zero inpatient beds at the facilities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America. To qualify, facilities must close their beds

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First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event with the National Education Association in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jill Biden welcomes proposal for Medicare to pay for navigation services for cancer patients

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., listen. Biden's upcoming budget proposal aims to trim deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade. That's according to an administration official who insisted on anonymity to discuss the figures being released Thursday. The level of deficit reduction is significantly higher than the $2 trillion worth of deficit reduction that Biden had promised in his State of the Union address last month. (Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Biden’s plans to cut Medicare Advantage

By Peter Mihalick

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Jan. 26, 2023. The move will provide more stability for inmates and juvenile detainees as they exit institutions and re-enter the outside world, said Brooks-LaSure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government is cracking down on nursing homes' abuse of antipsychotic drugs after an investigation in 2022 revealed an overwhelming majority of their residents are prescribed the medication. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will begin sending investigators to certain facilities in January 2023 to audit nursing homes' diagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

Health care at home became a reality during the pandemic, now we need to keep the door open

By Krista Drobac, Founder of Moving Health Home

In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP demands answers over $87B in improper spending on entitlements

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Let states innovate for Medicaid programs that put patients first

By U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D.

Montana lawmakers approve governor’s changes to vaccine bill

By AMY BETH HANSON - Associated Press

Biden administration blocks Medicaid work requirements

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Tennessee lifts restrictions on nursing home visits

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Trump plan to curb drug costs dealt setback in court

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

A coronavirus test is administered in a parking lot in this undated file photo. (Associated Press/File)

Lab in Rockville, Md., approved to resume coronavirus tests again

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 7, 2020, file photo, Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks about the coronavirus, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Medicare will cover the yet-to-be approved coronavirus vaccine free for older people under a policy change expected to be announced shortly, a senior administration official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Feds issue coverage plan for COVID-19 vaccine and treatments

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press