BMA Asks CMS to Enhance, Solidify Medicare Advantage Benefits
- Date: 12/08/2021
December 08, 2021 – Better Medicare Alliance (BMA) has penned a letter to CMS detailing a number of Medicare Advantage policy recommendations regarding…
A new study found improving public transportation makes it easier for people to make it to their doctor appointments.
A group of researchers from the Urban Institute, Harvard Medical School, Mass General, and the University of Minnesota studied what happened to no-show outpatient appointments at a major health system when the Green Line opened in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in 2014, connecting those two cities’ downtowns. The new Metro line was more reliable — less susceptible to traffic jams or bad weather — and ran more frequently than the buses that had previously covered the same route.
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