Eating a balanced diet is an essential part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In order to keep a healthy diet, however, it is important to know the basics of nutrition and how certain nutrients benefit your body. Part of maintaining a nutritious diet includes getting the right amounts of food from each food group. There
State Senate and Assembly Released One-House Budgets. The Assembly budget provides $700 million in capital funding for Brooklyn’s healthcare system. They disagree with the governor on allowing private equity to invest in hospitals. In addition, they eliminated the governor’s value-based payment proposal for healthcare providers dealing with insurers. Read more here. Also, here’s a link
Health care is one of the most life-maintaining and personal fields that you will encounter and as a patient it is important that you know the rights guaranteed to you by federal and state laws. Patient rights are rules of conduct set in place for patients and medical caregivers, which includes hospitals and healthcare personnel.
In 2014, the Executive Budget proposed the elimination of prescriber prevails in Medicaid Managed Care. Prescriber prevails means that doctors have the final authority over medication decisions instead of the government and Medicaid Managed Care insurers. Last year, advocates around the state successfully worked to influence a budget that would protect prescriber prevails in Managed
Supreme Court Case Underway Oral arguments are under way in the Supreme Court case over whether the federal government can provide subsidies to help people purchase insurance through the federal program. If the plaintiffs win, more than 8 million Americans could lose their health coverage. In the meantime, the GOP is working on a replacement
According to the National Kidney Foundation, 1 in 3 adults are currently at risk of kidney disease. There are several factors that can contribute to kidney disease but the two of the main causes are high blood pressure and diabetes. In order to keep your kidneys healthy and to decrease your risk of kidney disease,
In the United States, there are about 24 million people living with eating disorders. These people come from different backgrounds, gender, and ages. There are three types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. Each of these disorders can be treated, but they must be identified first.
The state health department is giving more time to those who began filling out their healthcare enrollment applications by the deadline will have until the end of the month to finish it.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans. Although there are certain characteristics that make people more prone to heart disease that others, such as genetics, gender, and age, there are still measures you can take to decrease your chances.
Affordable Care Act News: About 7.8 million people signed up for healthcare under the ACA or re-enrolled as of February 6th. The week of January 31st – February 6th saw 275,676 sign up for health insurance.