Boca Home Care Services recommends to plan for your old age, past retirement, for illness, or disability. The costs are known, more or less, and it is critical to get an idea what these costs are for a loved one or for yourself in order to make the right choices in financial planning. … Read more
More than half the states want permission to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the Medicaid insurance program, a move that would represent a rare cut to a national social program. Read more
Among the most dramatic of the proposed cuts is the severe reduction in Medicaid reimbursement rates to nursing homes in Texas. Facing a shortfall of up to $27 billion, state lawmakers want to reduce the rate by 10%. But payments to nursing homes would plummet by a total of 34% because they would also lose federal matching funds. Read more
All caregivers from Nurse Registries and Agencies are required by Florida Law to have Level 2 background screenings by the FBI. This law went into effect August 1, 2010. Read more
John Hancock wants to hike premiums for the bulk of its customers by an average of 40% this year; Genworth Financial (GNW, Fortune 500) is asking
for an 18% increase on some policies; and other insurers are expected to follow. Read more
