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Healthcare Today: Innovations & Emerging Technologies are Providing People Tools to Take Wellness Into Their Own Hands

Healthcare Today Innovations in research, patient ownership in their own care, and emerging technologies are providing people tools to take wellness into their own hands. By Sondra Barr The subject of health is a very […]

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New Healthcare Overhaul Coming––Benchmark Financial

Medicare. The impact of the Affordable Care Act has already been positive for millions of Americans on Medicare. Part of the act requires coverage for a slew of preventive annual care, including free physicals, pap smears, colonoscopies, prostate cancer screenings, flu shots and more from physicians who accept Medicare patients. […]

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Hospice: One of Medicare's best benefits – Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, LIVING WELL Magazine

Hospice – One of Medicare’s Best Benefits

Courtesy Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, Colorado Springs LIVING WELL Magazine

With the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, many people are concerned about how to access and pay for medical services. Even with the Affordable Care Act unfolding, it is a common misconception that quality end-of-life care is expensive or unaffordable. […]

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Axtell Rite-Value Pharmacy provides a Medicare Update – LIVING WELL Magazine

Medicare Update
By Mark Johnson, R.CPhT, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
In 2011 more than 2.2 million people with Medicare were able to save $1.2 billion on their prescriptions, for an average of $550 per person, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in the fall of 2011. And more than 22.6 million seniors and people with disabilities took advantage of at least one free Medicare preventive benefit, including the new Annual Wellness Visit made possible by the Affordable Care Act. […]