Posts Tagged Medicare

Reconstruction After Breast Cancer - No Good Choices

An article in my local newspaper makes me wake up and take notice of a real problem for women who, after breast cancer surgeries, wish to have their breast(s) reconstructed.

Mind you — we aren’t talking about breast enhancement surgery. No discussion of “boob jobs” here.

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Hospital Patients Get Their Say - On a Scale of 0 to 10…

The US Department of Health and Human Services / Department of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) provides a website called Hospital Compare that allows potential patients to size up a hospital before they are admitted. Need to know how many heart surgeries are successful at your local hospital? Need to know its mortality rate? The information can be found at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.

And now, a new addition to the website will make this website even more valuable to those of us who do our due diligence. I love this!

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