Camden District Nursing is a nonprofit organization serving residents of Camden, Lockport, Hope, and Lincolnville, offering a variety of home health care services. CAMDEN, Maine — In an era of commercial health insurance, soaring medical costs and hospital budget crises, more than 100 seniors in Camden and several surrounding towns still have access to regular and affordable health care in their homes. I am. This is essentially the care Camden District Nursing has been providing for 104 years. For the past 15 years, that care has been provided by nurse Judy Lyson. Judy, who started her career as a nurse…
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HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry announced that a Montgomery County-based home care agency, its operator and 18 others have been indicted on charges that they defrauded the Medicaid program out of millions of dollars. Stephanie Mobley owned ComfortZone Home Health Care, LLC, a Barra Cynwyd-based Medicaid provider authorized to provide personal assistance services to eligible beneficiaries. According to an indictment filed by the attorney general's office, Mobley, his daughter Naya Campbell, Mobley's second-in-command, and others subverted the program by filing claims for reimbursement for services not provided. They conspired to extort money. All 20 defendants are charged with Medicaid…
Talia JaneSeveral young people entered a lookalike contest in New York City.Wearing hoodies and masks, they limped along, nervously laughing as they waited for the winner to be announced.Just days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on a New York City sidewalk, these young men took to Washington Square to take part in a lookalike contest for the man wanted on murder charges. They were lined up in the park.Journalist Talia Jane, who was at the venue, said the event was sparsely attended and many people thought it was a joke.But the report underscored the obsession with the suspected…
The Regional Shuttle Service hopes to help alleviate health care issues in Freeborn County by providing free transportation to local hospitals.Smart Transit, which operates in Austin, Albert Lea and Owatonna, will expand medical ride services for Freeborn County residents next year, thanks to a $10,000 grant. The shuttle company will provide free transportation to Mayo Clinic hospitals in Albert Lea and Austin for residents 55 and older, addressing a long-standing decline in health care services in the area. “We're very pleased,” said Smart Transit operations manager Chris Thompson. “I can't even explain how great news that is.”Mayo Clinic Health System…
Publication date: December 13, 2024To view this newsletter in another language, please click on the drop-down menu above and select your preferred language. In this issue: We will give you a further raise! Have you filled out the Bargaining Questionnaire? The 2025 Salary Calendar is now available Join the home care workforce and get free support to find a job Around the Union 2024 Political Taxes Don't forget the deduction: Nursing home won crew shoes Discount for union members Home care and personal support workers are getting a raise! Thanks to our collective action in 2023, we were able to…
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has declared that his anger at the medical industry is justified and he wants to fuel it in his new post.Moore wrote on the Substack page on Friday that while he does not condone murder, public anger toward the industry should be amplified following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He claimed that.”That anger is 1000% justified. It's long overdue for the media to pick it up. It's not new. It keeps boiling over. And I don't want to quell it or tell people to shut up. I'm not asking for it. I want to…
CNN — UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Whitty said Friday in his first public appearance in response to the consumer outcry following the shooting death of one of his executives, that the U.S. health care system is “It's not perfect,” he said, adding that coverage decisions “are not well understood.” “We know that our health care system is not working as well as we should, and we understand people's frustrations about it,” Whitty wrote in a guest essay for the New York Times. “No one would design a system like we have. And no one did. It's a patchwork built over…
Oklahoma ranks near the bottom when it comes to the health of women and their babies, according to a United Healthcare Foundation report. Experts at SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City said a lack of health care options in small communities is contributing to Oklahoma's problems. Meet Dr. Angela Hawkins from SSM Health Hawkins was born and raised in Oklahoma, graduated from Oklahoma City University with a medical degree, and completed his residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Hawkins is an obstetrician-gynecologist and…
Consumers' feelings of helplessness are often further amplified when interacting with the health insurance companies that control the care they receive. But navigating these huge, opaque companies is frustrating at best, and consumers rarely have much say. For approximately 154 million Americans, employers offer a choice of health insurance coverage. UnitedHealth is the most likely of these. The company is the fourth largest company in the United States by overall sales and has divisions that hire physicians, provide pharmacy benefits, and process medical claims for patients. The company, along with its biggest competitors, has been the subject of antitrust scrutiny,…
A woman has been charged with threatening a health insurance company by repeating the words carved into a shell casing found at the scene of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Brianna Boston, 42, was speaking on a recorded line with a Blue Cross Blue Shield representative about a denied medical claim when she heard messages such as, “Delay it, deny it, step down, you're next.” He has been indicted on suspicion of saying that.Boston, a Florida native, was charged with making a mass shooting and making terroristic threats. A judge set her bail at $100,000 (£78,900).After Tuesday's call with…