… their doctors – often don’t test for it. Doctors also don’t always report finding Lyme disease to their local public health department, said Erik Foster, an entomologist with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and a co-author of …
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Team Trump should get in the union-busting business
… skim operates in government programs run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the Department of Health and Human Services. Once confirmed, Price should initiate a rule-making process to prohibit public agencies from spending …
Affordable Care Act enrollment ongoing, despite Trump pulling ads
Despite the Trump administration recently pulling the plug on all advertisements and marketing for the Affordable Care Act’s current open enrollment period, anyone can still sign up for health care insurance under the law through the end of the month. Erin Knot, the Michigan director for Enroll America, doesn’t expect anyone would lose their coverage immediately if Republican lawmakers carry out their promise to repeal Obamacare this year.
Snyder highlights aging infrastructure, Medicaid expansion
Gov. Rick Snyder called Tuesday for addressing Michigan’s aging infrastructure over the next several decades, citing the Flint water crisis that has roiled his administration and a football field-sized sinkhole that formed recently in suburban Detroit. In his seventh annual State of the State address to lawmakers, the Republican also touted the state’s Medicaid expansion, which has provided health insurance to 600,000 low-income adults but which is in jeopardy as the GOP-led Congress seeks to repeal the federal health care law.
MLK Day Concert: Biakuye Percussion Group
The acclaimed percussion group Biakuye returns to AADL for this concert event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In Akan languages of West Africa, biakuye means unity.
Michigan hospitals concerned about proposed repeal of Obamacare
Repealing the Affordable Care Act tops the agenda for Republicans after the new congress is sworn in during the first week in January. But the Michigan Health and Hospital Association is concerned what will happen if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement strategy ready to take its place.
Brian Fedoronko, M.D. named new Southeast Medical Director of Priority Health
)–Priority Health, one of Michigan’s largest health plans, announced today that Brian Fedoronko, MD, has been named the medical director for southeast Michigan. He will assume his new responsibilities on December 30, 2016 and will work from the …