Team Metropolitan Home Health Care

12/01/2020

Easy 1-Click Apply (METROPOLITAN HOME HEALTH CARE INC) RN Nurse Field Home Health job in Chicago, IL. View job description, responsibilities and qualifications. See if you qualify!

11/30/2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/time-is-running-out-to-make-changes-to-your-medicare-coverage.html

Medicare's annual open enrollment period ends Dec. 7, which means you have a week left to check whether there's a better coverage option for 2021.

11/15/2020

To all Filipino in the health care community

10/28/2020

https://na.eventscloud.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=475666&

Join case managers and social workers from Illinois to gain new strategies and insights to improve patient outcomes. Continuing education credits are available.

10/23/2020

https://homehealthcarenews.com/2020/10/lawmakers-introduce-new-bill-paving-the-way-for-home-health-telehealth-reimbursement/

Home health providers are one step closer to getting the No. 1 thing they’ve been asking for since the COVID-19 pandemic began: reimbursement for telehealth-driven visits. On Friday, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced the Home Health Emergency Access to Telehea...

10/05/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/10/04/health-insurers-lay-groundwork-for-biden-and-medicare-advantage-at-60/

Health insurance companies are expanding Medicare Advantage offerings, which could be widened further under Joe Biden's Medicare at 60 proposal.

10/03/2020

https://www.ehealthmedicare.com/medicare-advantage-articles/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-switching-to-a-medicare-advantage-plan/

Medicare Advantage plans deliver your Original Medicare benefits - and sometimes, much more. Find out the pros & cons of Medicare Advantage plans.

07/24/2020

https://skillednursingnews.com/2020/07/hhs-to-send-additional-5-billion-from-provider-relief-fund-to-all-nursing-homes-in-u-s/

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be sending $5 billion to all skilled nursing facilities in the U.S, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday. “Nursing homes in higher risk areas will be receiving more funding,” Trump said in his coronavirus briefing on Wednesday. “T...

06/13/2020

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/Genetic-study-suggests-peoples-blood/98/i23

People with type A blood may have higher risk of severe illness, while those with type O may have lower risk

06/09/2020

https://homehealthcarenews.com/2020/06/they-shot-from-the-hip-home-health-providers-sound-off-on-cms/

The COVID-19 virus has thrown a wrench into any home health care plans the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initially had for 2020. Instead of mainly focusing on the launch of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) and other initiatives, the agency has had to make a slew of cri...

05/26/2020

https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/Sweden-herd-immunity-experiment-backfires-covid-15289437.php

Unlike its Nordic neighbors, Sweden decided early in the pandemic to forgo lockdown in the hope of achieving "herd immunity." While social distancing was promoted bars, restaurants, salons, gyms and schools stayed open. How has that worked out?

05/25/2020

https://www.studyfinds.org/first-human-trial-of-possible-covid-19-vaccine-triggers-rapid-immune-response-few-side-effects/

Researchers say the first human trial of a possible COVID-19 vaccine has been found to be safe and may effectively fight the virus.