Medicare — the national program providing health insurance coverage for older Americans and the disabled — was established in 1965, and it’s safe to say that today’s Medicare isn’t your grandparents’ Medicare.
Medicare beneficiaries will see their Part B premiums decrease in 2023, the first time in more than a decade that the tab will be lower than the year before, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday.
ATLANTA – Georgians who are members of two large Medicare Advantage plans may face a tougher time getting cataract surgery – a routine eye procedure for older people. That’s because Aetna and Humana now require doctors in Georgia to get prior approval for cataract removal for Medicare Advantage enrollees. Georgia eye doctors say the requirements […]
ATLANTA – The state will funnel $130 million in federal COVID relief funds to Grady Memorial Hospital to help offset the impact of the looming closure of WellStar’s Atlanta Medical Center (AMC), Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday. The Republican governor and two Atlanta-area Democratic leaders addressed how Georgia’s capital city will cope with the closure […]
ATLANTA – Both COVID and monkeypox rates are starting to decline in Georgia, the state’s chief science officer said Tuesday during an update to the state Board of Public Health.
ATLANTA – A committee of state senators met on the Georgia Tech campus Tuesday to learn how the state can boost its cybersecurity.
ATLANTA — Against the backdrop of hospital closures, state lawmakers Monday considered how to improve health care delivery across Georgia.
The Gwinnett Coalition and GNR Public Health have teamed up to create a new website where Gwinnettians can go to find health care providers that serve their needs.
GNR Public Health Director, Dr. Audrey Arona, recently had some good news to share about COVID-19, but she also tempered it with a warning.
GNR Public Health Director Dr. Audrey Arona says monkeypox is not running rampant in schools even if one person at a school tests positive for it.
ATLANTA – Two Georgia veterans lent their support this week to the use of the psychedelic drug psilocybin in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Following multiple combat deployments, Ethan Whitfield and Marcus Capone traveled outside of the U.S. for counseling and treatment of their PTSD with psilocybin after standard drugs failed to treat their severe […]
Gwinnett County Public Schools officials confirmed on Monday that a case of monkeypox has emerged at Dacula Elementary School.
Back to school, lack of time and record heat might cause most people to put exercise “on the shelf.”
ATLANTA — Many rural Georgia counties lack easy access to methadone clinics, according to a new study by a University of Georgia (UGA) team. Methadone is a “gold standard of opioid addiction treatments,” according to study author and UGA health economist Jayani Jayawardhana. Methadone helps people quit addictions to drugs like heroin, oxycodone and […]
Piedmont Eastside recently received two honors for demonstrating commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of heart disease and stroke.
ATLANTA— A juvenile court must reevaluate the sincerity of parents’ objections to their children’s vaccinations, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. At issue is whether children in temporary state custody can be immunized with routine childhood vaccines over their parents’ religious objections – and how to decide if those objections are sincere or not. […]
In its first year, the Lawrenceville Police Department's co-responder program with View Point Health handled nearly 900 crisis calls — but arrested less than a dozen people — in the city, according to numbers released by the city.
ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled Friday that the federal government should not have blocked a proposal to reform Georgia Medicaid.
US News and World Report recently named the Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital as the best place to go in Georgia for cardiology and heart surgery.
An extended care facility that has been a part of Northside Gwinnett's campus in Lawrenceville for a quarter of a century, and been recognized nationally for its care, will soon close its doors as the hospital looks to expand its ability to handle inpatient needs, Northside officials confirmed on Thursday.
ATLANTA – A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families has found that about 20% of Georgia women of childbearing age are uninsured. The rate of uninsured women between 18 and 44 years old is one of the highest in the country, putting Georgia in 46th place on a national […]
Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta recently opened a new office for orthopedic and sports medicine care in the Snellville area.
ATLANTA — The federal agency in charge of Medicaid Tuesday denied Georgia’s application for a waiver to set up the state’s own health insurance marketplace.
Northeast Georgia Medical Center has spent the last few months expanding its surgery services at its Barrow campus in Winder.
ATLANTA – Lawyers for abortion-rights groups asked a state judge Monday to temporarily block Georgia’s new abortion law. The law – which bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected – took effect in July. Initially approved by the General Assembly in 2019, it had been under legal challenge in federal courts. Last month, […]
ATLANTA – Nearly 600 cases of monkeypox have been identified in Georgia since the disease first showed up in the Peach State at the beginning of June, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center commemorates its first anniversary on Monday with a renewed commitment to, as CEO Trent Lind says, “better experiences and better outcomes for our patients.”
ATLANTA — Georgia’s abortion law is raising health and privacy concerns among patients and doctors, abortions-rights activists said this week after a federal court upheld the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Georgia Urology has several reasons to celebrate this month after 19 of its doctors — including four from Gwinnett and Johns Creek — were named among metro Atlanta's top doctors by Atlanta Magazine.
ATLANTA— Georgia has a “golden opportunity” to transform its behavioral health system building on reforms adopted during this year’s legislative session, an alliance of mental-health organizations reported Monday. The Georgia Mental Health Policy Partnership, a coalition of more than 50 groups, released a new set of policy recommendations during a news conference at the state […]
Gwinnett County Public Schools officials are receiving questions, and some pushback, after requiring district employees wear face masks again as COVID-19 numbers begin a new rise.
ATLANTA – Georgia’s Medicaid program will now cover gender-affirming surgery as a result of a new settlement in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
ATHENS — Four graduates of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences are among the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2022.
Twice each year, I do a “From the Mailbag” column, serving up your comments, questions, and corrections. You might think this is an easy way to fill space during a week in which I am actually on vacation. You would be right about that.
ATLANTA — Both sides in Georgia’s abortion fight have laid out new legal arguments in the wake of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized the procedure.
More than 700 people attended the three-hour event, which was co-staged by the Daily Post, Live Healthy Gwinnett and Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation and highlighted family health, education and back-to-school preparedness.
The Gwinnett Daily Post hosted a health fair and Kids Expo at Bogan Park in Buford on July 16.
Gwinnett County government employees will once again have to wear face masks in county facilities, beginning Monday, because of rising COVID-19 case numbers, but visitors to those same facilities will have the option to not wear them.
ATLANTA – Monkeypox vaccines from the federal government began arriving in Georgia Friday, the state Department of Public Health (DPH) announced. The 3,000 Jynneos vaccines received so far are enough to vaccinate 1,500 people, agency spokeswoman Nancy Nydam said. A full vaccination requires two doses 28 days apart. So far, 93 people with confirmed […]
Lawrenceville, the Georgia Department of Transportation and Northside Hospital Gwinnett will work together to get a new ramp that will allow drivers to access the hospital directly from State Route 316.
After months of disputes, Northside Hospital officials and their counterparts at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield have reached an agreement to ensure the insurance provider's customers will be covered if they receive medical care at one of Northside's campuses.
The Daily Post is teaming up with Live Healthy Gwinnett and Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation to co-host a Gwinnett Health Fair and Back-To-School All About Kids Expo from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday at Bogan Park, which is located at 2723 N. Bogan Road in Buford.
ATLANTA – The federal government is releasing monkeypox vaccine to Georgia in a phased approach. The state will receive 5,943 doses of the Jynneos vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile during the first two phases, Dr. Alexander Millman, chief medical officer for the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH), told the agency’s board Tuesday. The DPH […]
The Daily Post is teaming up with Live Healthy Gwinnett and Gwinnett County Parks and Recreation to co-host a health fair and back-to-school All About Kid's Expo on July 16 at Bogan Park in Buford.
A person who was experiencing a mental health crisis got onto the Georgia State Patrol barracks property in Suwanee last week after parking their car on the side of Interstate 85 and jumping over a barbed wire office, the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office announced on Saturday.
Mental health and gun violence were key topics that came up at the Youth Exposium which was hosted by Buford-based Poplar Hill Missionary Baptist Church and Buford Forward at the church this past week.
ATLANTA – Georgia’s new mental health parity law takes effect Friday, July 1. Under the state’s new mental health parity law, Georgia health insurers must cover mental health treatment at the same level they cover physical ailments “Parity kicks in immediately,” Rep. Todd Jones, R-South Forsyth, said about the new law’s July 1 start date. […]
The Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale Health Departments are shortening their name — but they are leaving a trace of the identities of the three counties that make up the health district in the new moniker.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s “heartbeat law” banning abortions after the first six weeks won’t take effect until at least mid-July despite last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized the procedure.
The Daily Post's 8th annual Generations Expo, which highlights health and quality of life for people ages 50 and older, was held at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds in Lawrenceville on Saturday.
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