Archive for October 2024

The biggest player is a company called EviCore by Evernorth, which is hired by major American insurance companies and provides coverage to 100 million consumers — about 1 in 3 insured people. It is owned by the insurance giant Cigna. A ProPublica and Capitol Forum investigation found that EviCore uses an algorithm backed by artificial intelligence, which some insiders call “the dial,” that it can adjust to lead to higher denials. Some contracts ensure the company makes more money the more it cuts health spending. And it issues medical guidelines that doctors have said delay and deny care for patients.

Good balance, muscle strength and an efficient gait contribute to people’s independence and well-being as they age. How these factors change, and at what rate, can help clinicians develop programs to ensure healthy aging. Individually, people can train their balance without special equipment and work on maintaining it over time.

The service, which would transfer social care responsibility from councils to a new national body, has already been delayed for three years due to cost saving measures…. Unveiled by Nicola Sturgeon in 2021 as the most ambitious reform of the devolution era, the National Care Service has been repeatedly postponed and scaled back. Above: Green health spokesperson Gillian Mackay says she cannot support the bill in its current form

The asks of this campaign are essential if we are to tackle the issues that threaten the existence of social work as we know it in Scotland.