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"Player-coaches" changing recovery game

Meet the "peer support specialists," workers who guide people recovering from addiction as they do it themselves

Salon

Private equity in the maternity ward

Hospitals are partnering with private equity to open "obstetrics emergency departments" — with big medical bills

Salon

Hospital probed after denying abortion

In the wake of Missouri's abortion ban, one hospital is in hot water after denying an essential abortion

Salon

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Thousands of experts hired to aid public health departments are losing their jobs

As COVID-19 raged, roughly 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists and public health nurses were hired by a nonprofit tied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to plug the holes at battered public health departments on the front lines.

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California stockpiles penalties from uninsured residents instead of lowering care costs

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money that was intended to help Californians struggling to pay for coverage.

Tribune News Service

Stopping the churn: Why some states want to guarantee Medicaid coverage from birth to age 6

Before the COVID-19 public health emergency began in 2020, millions of children churned on and off Medicaid each year — an indication that many were losing coverage because of administrative problems, rather than because their family’s income had increased and made them ineligible.

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South Dakota voters approved Medicaid expansion, but implementation may not be easy

RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakotans voted Tuesday to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover thousands of additional low-income residents, becoming the seventh state to approve expansion via the ballot box.

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Fact check: Ad goes too far with claim that Joe Biden promotes surgery for trans teens

A radio ad targeting care for transgender youth began airing in cities around the country this fall — from Spanish-language stations in Corpus Christi, Texas, to sports talk shows in Tennessee to pop radio in Detroit. The ad, paid for by a political advocacy group founded by Stephen Miller, a…

Tribune News Service

More older Americans become homeless as inflation rises and housing costs spike

In Montana and across the nation, homeless shelters report the worrisome trend that seniors are a growing proportion of their residents.

WEKU

Haven’t seen your doctor in a few years?

Some primary care doctors drop seldom-seen patients, a problem for those who postponed visits amid the pandemic

Salon

Post-Roe, contraceptive failures carry bigger stakes

Birth control options have improved over the decades. Oral contraceptives are now safer, with fewer side effects. Intrauterine devices can prevent pregnancy 99.6% of the time. But no prescription drug or medical device works flawlessly, and people’s use of contraception is inexact.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court to hear nursing home case that could affect millions

When Susie Talevski sued the agency that managed her elderly father’s care before he died, she hoped to get justice for her family. She did not expect the case would grow into a national bellwether. A ruling against her could strip millions of vulnerable Americans of their power to hold…

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Hospital giant HCA fends off accusations of questionable inpatient admissions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jennifer Smithfield felt weak and still had trouble breathing in February after nearly two weeks with COVID-19. It was a Sunday, and her doctor’s office was closed. So her primary care physician suggested going to an emergency room to be safe.

Tribune News Service

Hurricane Ian's deadly impact on seniors

At least 120 people died from Hurricane Ian; of those who perished, two-thirds were 60 or older

Salon

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When fentanyl came to a Texas school

The first fentanyl-related deaths of students in an area south of Austin, Texas, were reported over the summer

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This open enrollment season, look out for health insurance that seems too good to be true

It took nearly a year for Kelly Macauley to realize the health plan she bought while shopping for insurance coverage last October was not, in fact, insurance. Sure, red flags popped up along the way, but when she called to complain, she said, she was met with explanations that sounded…

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California patients fear fallout from third dialysis ballot measure

ELK GROVE, Calif. — Toni Sherwin is actually looking forward to the procedure that will relocate her dialysis port from her chest to her arm, which will be easier to keep dry. Since she started dialysis in February — as part of blood cancer treatment — she has washed her…

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Missouri hospital investigated for allegedly denying an emergency abortion

The federal government has launched its first confirmed investigation of an alleged denial of an abortion to a woman experiencing a medical emergency.

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Bill of the Month: $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Dr. Josie Tenore and Paul Hinds were introduced by a mutual friend in 2017 and hadn’t been going out long when she laid down the law: He had to get a physical.

Salon

When monkeypox comes to rural areas

The monkeypox response in rural areas is hindered by patchy resources and bitter politics

Salon

Employers worry about mental health care

A third of surveyed employers say their health plan’s network didn’t have enough behavioral health care providers

Tribune News Service

Montana backs away from innovative hospital payment model. Other states are watching

Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

Salon

Are ultrasound breast exams needed?

A breast ultrasound, sometimes called a sonogram, uses sound waves to take images of the breast tissue

Salon

VA is blind to its accessibility issues

Government websites are often inaccessible to blind and low-vision patients, despite federal law

Chicago Sun-Times

For Highland Park man, why did a single shot of a very old cancer drug cost $38,398?

What’s behind the $38,398 price tag for a single dose of the drug to treat prostate cancer? A mixture of unrelenting drug price increases and hospital system consolidation.

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