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Mortality gap widens in rural health

The increased mortality rates are an indicator of worsening population health, the authors of a new study noted

Salon

Unauthorized ACA plan switches drive call for action against rogue agents

Federal and state regulators are mulling what they can do to thwart the growing problem. Rogue health insurance brokers are switching consumers' plans without permission and collecting the commission.

WEKU

Social Security Changes How Overpayments are Handled

The Social Security Administration announced a change to how overpayments are handled.

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ACA health insurance plans are being switched without enrollees' OK

Rogue insurance agents access consumer information on the Affordable Care Act federal marketplace and make the changes. Policyholders can lose their doctors and end up owing back taxes.

WEKU

A mom's $97,000 question: How was an air-ambulance ride not medically necessary?

There are legal safeguards to protect patients from big bills like out-of-network air-ambulance rides. But insurers may not pay if they decide the ride wasn't medically necessary.

WEKU

The ultimate green burial? Human composting lets you replenish the earth after death

Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting facility in Seattle, come from out of state.

WEKU

Social Security Chief Testifies in Senate About Plans to Stop ‘Clawback Cruelty’

Social Security plans to default to withholding 10% (not all) of the recipient's monthly benefits to recoup debt, SSA head says.

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Native Americans are hardest hit by syphilis surge

Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.

WEKU

Racist legacy of a New Orleans highway

The “Claiborne Corridor” tore through the heart of one of the nation’s oldest Black neighborhoods

Salon

The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024

Physician Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.

WEKU

Social Security Chief Vows to Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks

Capping Social Security clawbacks at 10% for some beneficiaries is among the changes that O'Malley plans to propose.

Kiplinger

They were injured at the Super Bowl parade. A month later, they feel forgotten

A Kansas family remembers Valentine's Day as the start of panic attacks, life-altering trauma and waking to nightmares of gunfire. They wonder how they'll recover from the Kansas City parade shooting.

WEKU

COVID patients can't get Paxlovid

The price is one reason Paxlovid is not reaching those who need it most

Salon

Why covid patients who could most benefit from paxlovid still aren’t getting it

During the pandemic, the federal government offered Americans a 5-day course of Paxlovid, the antiviral drug that lessens COVID-19 symptoms. But now that Pfizer is charging for it, confusion over insurance coverage, price, has made patients wary.

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WEKU

There's a new prescription pill for postpartum depression. How will coverage work?

A prescription pill to treat postpartum depression hit the market in December, but most insurers do not yet have a policy on how patients can access it or when they will pay for it.

WEKU

Health industry struggles to recover from cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth

Doctors are worried that the attack on Change Healthcare, part of UnitedHeathcare's Optum division, will mean they can't get paid properly for months.

Salon

California expanding abortion care

The need for more abortion care practitioners is being driven by efforts in many states to gut abortion rights

WEKU

Meet the public health researchers trying to rein in America's gun violence crisis

After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on gun violence research, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or support. Now a new generation is taking up the charge.

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WEKU

Why a financial regulator is going after health care debt

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created after the Great Recession of 2007-09, has increasingly started policing the health care system.

WEKU

What counts as an exception to South Dakota's abortion ban? A video may soon explain

South Dakota allows doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if a patient's life is in jeopardy. Lawmakers say a government-created video would clarify what that exception actually means.

WEKU

Her air-ambulance ride wasn't covered by Medicare. It will cost her family $81,739

A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.

WEKU

Surge in syphilis cases drives some doctors to ration penicillin

The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it.

WEKU

To stop fentanyl deaths in Philly, knocking on doors and handing out overdose kits

In Philadelphia, canvassers are going door-to-door to warn some residents of the overdose rates in their neighborhood, and handing out Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and information on resources.

WEKU

More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help?

The surge in overdose deaths among teens is opening a new path to treatment: pediatricians. A doctor in Massachusetts shows how it works with a 17-year-old patient.

WEKU

Shots can be scary and painful for kids. One doctor has a plan to end needle phobia

Research suggests the biggest source of pain for children in the health care system is needles. One California doctor says the fear of needles is a serious problem, but proposes some simple solutions.

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