Lisa Gillespie, web reporter, reports on Medicare and Medicaid federal and state policies, and was most recently a reporter with Washington-based Inside Health Policy. She has also reported on the dietary supplement and over-the-counter drug industries and employer-based healthcare benefits. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Learnvest.com, The Tan Sheet and Employee Benefit News.
Lisa Gillespie
Seniors living in three states will now need prior approval from Medicare before they can get an ambulance to take them to cancer or dialysis treatments. The change is part of a three-year pilot to combat extraordinarily high rates of fraudulent billing by ambulance companies.
Eight family-physician-related groups, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, have formed Family Medicine for America's Health, a coalition to improve the public perception of what they do and advance their interests through state and federal policies.
In a scenario playing out in rural areas across the country, a financially-strapped critical access hospital's closure leaves a North Carolina town with limited healthcare.