UPDATE – Shield HealthCare is now contracted with RightCare from Scott & White Health Plan to provide: Incontinence, Enteral Nutrition, Ostomy, Urological and Wound Care Supplies. The experienced team of home medical supply experts at Shield HealthCare are ready to support those with RightCare Medicaid coverage from Scott & White Health Plan. You can count on Shield HealthCare… Continue reading Shield HealthCare now contracted with RightCare from Scott & White Health Plan

National Family Caregivers Month has arrived again, and we're so happy to see it! We love to celebrate the family caregivers out there, providing support.

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News for USA Today Republican lawmakers in Florida and Texas snubbed the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for adults, but their states did broaden the program this year — for school-age children. Those states were among 21 — including some big Democrat-led states, such as California — that were required to… Continue reading Texas and Florida Did Expand Medicaid — For Kids

By Dan Thesman for KAPP TV OLYMPIA — Clients of the state’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program can now only buy 1 percent or nonfat milk. The change that started this month better aligns WIC with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other programs, such as Head Start, and the School Lunch and Breakfast… Continue reading Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program Gets New Milk Guidelines

In this article from Washington Healthcare News, read about how nursing homes are having a hard time compling with abuse reporting requirements.

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon, for Health News Colorado Consumer advocates say careful rate review will save Coloradans millions on health insurance next year, but they warned people to shop around and ask questions as they renew old plans or hunt for new ones starting next month. For example, rate experts from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative… Continue reading Consumer Advocates, State Regulators Reject 19 Percent Insurance Hike

By InnovatioNews DENVER – MyRounding took the top prize of $25,000 at the 2014 Colorado Digital Health Challenge held Tuesday at CSU Denver. MyRounding is a company that develops, markets and sells software solutions for health care organizations. Taking second-place prize of $15,000 was RxREVU, which helps health care companies with cost-saving recommendations on chronic medications, and the $10,000 third-place… Continue reading MyRounding Takes $25K Top Prize at Colorado Digital Health

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon, for Health News Colorado Health exchange managers expect to lose about 30 percent of enrollees due to attrition by year’s end. That means they’ll carry over about 114,000 existing customers as they head into the 2015 open enrollment season. Connect for Health Colorado managers expect enrollments to slide back from a… Continue reading Thirty-percent Attrition Bites Into Exchange Revenues

On Saturday October 4th, 2014, Shield HealthCare is standing with the United Ostomy Associations of America and the ostomy community to celebrate ostomies! 

Many low-income Californians were happy to get free health care under the ACA. But for some it came with a booby trap: the Medi-Cal estate recovery program.