Along with all the fun summer activities comes increased exposure to the sun’s harmful UV rays. Learn how to protect your skin in the sun.

DENVER, June 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM) project is pleased to recognize the significant commitments made by six Colorado health insurers and the state’s Medicaid program to adopt delivery and payment reforms designed to integrate behavioral and physical healthcare. “These commitments represent an important step forward in furthering the goals of… Continue reading Colorado Health Plans make Expanded Commitments to Integrated Care and State Innovation Model

The CMS needs to be more transparent in its evaluation and approval of Medicaid demonstrations, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The GAO asked Congress to step in because billions are being overspent and it blames the CMS for lack of oversight it says endangers the Medicaid program. The CMS didn’t attend the hearing. In… Continue reading CMS Skips Congressional Hearing Criticizing How Medicaid Demos Are Run

Almost two million people over age 65, seniors, or nearly 6 percent of those Americans (excluding nursing home residents), rarely or never leave their homes ...

This year Shield HealthCare is offering a video component to our Caregiver Contest for the first time. We look forward to your videos! Please keep in mind that we are only accepting videos that are hosted on YouTube’s platform, and the entry dates are September 7th through November 30th, 2015. Creating an Account Since YouTube… Continue reading How to Upload a Video to YouTube to Enter Our Caregiver Story Contest

Watch this hour long webinar to learn how the new Quality of Patient Care Star Rating System will affect your agency and how to improve your rating.

Special thanks to Amy H. for sharing her beautiful caregiver story. "Caregiving comes naturally to caregivers. The actions can be taught, but not the...

By Chad Terhune for the Los Angeles Times California’s health insurance exchange wants to know why you got sick this summer. With 1.4 million people enrolled, the state-run marketplace is embarking on an ambitious effort to collect insurance company data on prescriptions, doctor visits and hospital stays for every Obamacare patient. Covered California says this massive… Continue reading California’s Obamacare Exchange to Collect Insurance Data on Patients

Shield HealthCare's Ostomy Lifestlye Specialist, Laura Cox, hosts this ostomy FAQ webinar, with tips for dressing and sleeping with an ostomy, and more.

Warnings of a fatal imbalance in the risk pool now look ill-founded, with money left over in a fund to protect insurers from costly claims. Not so long ago, critics of Obamacare were warning of death spirals, the risk that too many sick people and not enough healthy ones would sign up for insurance, triggering a cycle of ever higher costs… Continue reading That Obamacare Death Spiral Isn’t Panning Out