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| Oct 9, 2024 | Health | Here’s why getting a COVID shot during pregnancy is important | Babies can’t get the COVID vaccination until they are at least 6 months old. That leaves a “huge window” when infants are most vulnerable, Silverman said. Vaccinating pregnant women so they pass the antibodies on to their newborns is an eff... |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Health | The FDA calls them ‘recalls,’ yet the targeted medical devices often remain in use | “It’s very oxymoronic,” said Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco and former editor in chief of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “A recall makes it sound like it’s recalled. But that is not actually... |
| Aug 21, 2024 | National Politics | New lines of attack form against the Affordable Care Act | The enhanced subsidies are set to expire in late 2025. Without them, millions of Americans would likely see their premiums go up.
But the debate will also likely draw in other issues, including Trump-era tax cuts, which also must be address... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Health | Most Black hospitals across the South closed long ago. Their impact endures | A similar scenario has played out in hundreds of other rural communities across the United States, where hospitals have faced closure over the past 40 years. In that regard, the story of Mound Bayou’s hospital isn’t unique.
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| Jul 5, 2024 | Insurance wouldn't pay for his vasectomy. Such birth control coverage may become more elusive. | David Engler had been pretty sure he didn't want children. Then a frustrating school day two years ago helped seal the deal for the now 43-year-old substitute teacher.
"It was wild. I had to call the office seven times to get kids pull... |
| May 24, 2024 | Health | Tribal nations invest opioid settlement funds in traditional healing to treat addiction | Health care companies are paying out more than $1.5 billion to hundreds of tribes over 15 years. This windfall is similar to settlements that many of the same companies are paying to state governments, which total about $50 billion.
Edward ... |
| May 18, 2024 | Health | Stranded in the ER, seniors await hospital care and suffer avoidable harm | “It’s a public health crisis,” said Aisha Terry, an associate professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the president of the board of the American College of Emergency Physici... |
| May 17, 2024 | Their first baby came with medical debt. These parents won’t have another | Crivilare’s pregnancy may have been more dramatic than most. But for millions of new parents, medical debt is now as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers.
About 12% of the 100 million U.S. adults with health c... |
| May 16, 2024 | Health | Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish | In a nation that was sharply divided about government health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been warming to the idea of government rules providing for paid sick leave.
Before the pandemic, 10 states and the District o... |
| May 16, 2024 | Health | What’s keeping the US from allowing better sunscreens? | In a rare example of bipartisanship last summer, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thanked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for urging the FDA to speed up approvals of new, more effective sunscreen ingredients. Now a bipartisan bill is pending i... |
| May 15, 2024 | News | Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions | Since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, state fights over abortion access have created plenty of uncertainty for pregnant patients and their doctors. But that uncertainty has also bled into the wo... |
| May 15, 2024 | Health | Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one | “The hype around a lot of these devices is they provide care at scale for less labor costs,” said Michelle Mahon, a registered nurse and an assistant director of National Nurses United, the profession’s largest U.S. union. “This is a trend ... |
| May 14, 2024 | Could better inhalers help patients, and the planet? | Patients in the United States are prescribed roughly 144 million of what doctors call metered-dose inhalers each year, according to the most recently available data published in 2020. The cumulative amount of gas released is the equivalent ... |
| May 14, 2024 | National Politics | Biden team’s tightrope: Reining in rogue Obamacare agents without slowing enrollment | Some consumers are pursued when they respond to misleading social media marketing ads promising government subsidies, but most have no idea how they fell victim to plan-switching. Problems seem concentrated in the 32 states using the federa... |
| May 9, 2024 | Health | Bird flu is bad for poultry and dairy cows. It’s not a dire threat for most of us — yet | Mainly birds. Over the past few years, however, the H5N1 bird flu virus has increasingly jumped from birds into mammals around the world. The growing list of more than 50 species includes seals, goats, skunks, cats, and wild bush dogs at a ... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Health | Your doctor or your insurer? Little-known rules may ease the choice in Medicare Advantage | Susan Jaffe | KFF Health News (TNS)
Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage insurance plan — or thei... |
| Dec 4, 2023 | Health | Uncle Sam wants you … to help stop insurers’ bogus Medicare Advantage sales tactics | Susan Jaffe | KFF Health News (TNS)
After an unprecedented crackdown on misleading advertising claims by insurers selling private Medicare Advantage and drug plans, the Biden administration hopes to unleash a special weapon to make sure com... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Health | Health care ‘game-changer’? Feds boost care for homeless Americans | By Angela Hart, KFF Health News
The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — an... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | Doctor shortages distress rural America, where few residency programs exist | ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered.
The doctor in training remembered telling one of ... |
| Apr 8, 2023 | Healthcare, college education, and childcare started getting worse decades ago. Now we're all finally feeling it. | Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| Apr 7, 2023 | High inflation and housing costs force many Americans to delay needed care | At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota's Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community. Local Tra... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | For uninsured people with cancer, access to care can be "very random" | Eighteen months after April Adcox learned she had skin cancer, she finally returned to Charleston's Medical University of South Carolina last May to seek treatment.
By then, the reddish area along her hairline had grown from a 2-inch circle... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Getting Ozempic And Other Drugs From Canada? Not Likely. | When approved in 2017, Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic was recognized as an important new drug to treat diabetes. However, its popularity has surged recently not due to its blood sugar regulating effects but rather for its ability to help people los... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | California podría cambiar cómo financía la salud mental y eso podría cortar algunos servicios | EN RESUMEN
El gobernador Gavin Newsom propone destinar más dinero a viviendas para personas sin hogar con enfermedades mentales graves. Algunos funcionarios de organizaciones de salud mental temen que los fondos provengan de recortes a otro... |
| Mar 31, 2023 | FDA announces it's "evaluating safety concerns" over dental devices used by thousands | In the wake of a CBS News-KHN investigation, the FDA on Thursday said it is "evaluating safety concerns" over the use of a dental appliance that multiple lawsuits allege caused grievous harm to patients.
The federal agency told th... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Healthcare Executives Fail To Grasp That Getting To Population Health Requires An Entirely New, Patient-Centered, Model | Boston, MA: Resident neurologist Dr. Peter Tatum, center and Dr. David Thaler, Neurologist-in-Chief ... [+] examine a patient in the emergency department at Tufts Medical Center on March 08, 2022. (Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe ... |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Raincoats, undies, school uniforms: Are your clothes dripping in "forever chemicals"? | There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat.
Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found in hundreds of consumer products and clothing bought off the racks... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | An ER's error lands a 4-year-old in collections — for care he didn't receive | Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend.
Her family is insured through her husband's employer,... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 1 in 4 Colorado teens say they can get a loaded gun within 24 hours, new study finds | One in 4 Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes.
“That’s a lot of access and those... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | From addiction treatment to nursing homes, end of COVID emergency will bring changes across U.S. health care system | The Biden administration's decision to end the COVID-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more for COVID tests.
In response to the pande... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Homelessness, rehabilitation and health care: What to know about Newsom’s legacy tour | In summary
Gov. Gavin Newsom starts defining his legacy on a four-day statewide tour that focuses on priorities interrupted by crisis and the COVID pandemic, including homelessness, criminal justice and health care.
Gov. Gavin Newsom likes ... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | The Cancer Moonshot will never take off without economists and finance experts | In February, President Biden announced the reboot of the Cancer Moonshot and vowed to reduce cancer mortality by 50 percent in the next 25 years. It’s a goal that’s both lofty and achievable — but only if the advances in science are accompa... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | FDA looks into dental device after KHN-CBS News investigation of patient harm | In the wake of a joint investigation by KHN and CBS News into a dental appliance that multiple lawsuits allege caused grievous harm to patients, the FDA has begun looking into the product, the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or AGGA, ac... |
| Mar 13, 2023 | CCHR Calls for More Oversight after Recent Addiction Treatment Center Closures | With $42 billion invested in the addiction treatment industry, CCHR says the closure of 16 facilities warrants more government oversight and stronger penalties for fraud
With $42 billion invested in the addiction treatment industry, CCHR sa... |
| Mar 12, 2023 | Near Eradication Of The Neglected Tropical Disease Guinea Worm Is One Of President Jimmy Carter’s Legacies | LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 3: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter receives delivers a lecture on the ... [+] eradication of the Guinea worm, at the House of Lords on February 3, 2016 in London. The lecture, entitled Final Days of the Fiery S... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | The 4 Americans who were attacked after crossing the Mexican border were traveling to get a tummy tuck procedure, relatives say | A group of Americans were attacked after crossing the border into Mexico, leaving bullet holes in their white van. AP
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| Mar 6, 2023 | Virtual or in person: Which kind of doctor's visit is better, and when it matters | When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country in early 2020 and emptied doctors' offices nationwide, telemedicine was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Patients and their physicians turned to virtual visits by video or phone rather than ri... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Pharmalittle: How Lilly’s cuts will affect other efforts to lower insulin prices; pharma rebukes U.K. over clawbacks | And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda is a decidedly low-key affair. We look forward to promenading with... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. | Boja Kragulj, an accomplished clarinetist who once performed with orchestras in New York, Philadelphia, and Jacksonville, Florida, has already lost four teeth. And she expects to lose at least a dozen more.
Five years ago, seeking to correc... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | The hidden costs of refinancing your student loans | Redeem now
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| Feb 27, 2023 | Healthcare Delivery Is Sending Primary Care Physicians To The Sidelines. That Leaves A Bad Prognosis For An Aging, Unhealthy Nation | PICO RIVERA-CA-AUGUST 31, 2021: Physician Marie Flores, right, high-fives a patient at an AltaMed ... [+] clinic. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Los Angeles Times via Getty Images |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Nonprofit hospitals are failing Americans. Their boards may be a reason why | More than half of U.S. hospitals are nonprofit, meaning they receive generous tax exemptions in exchange for benefiting their communities. Many aren’t fulfilling that mission.
Some nonprofits have billed patients who should have qualified f... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Dementia care programs help, if caregivers can find them | There's no cure, yet, for Alzheimer's disease. But dozens of programs developed in the past 20 years can improve the lives of both people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Unlike support groups, these programs teach caregivers conc... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Challenging State Abortion Bans in Light of FDA’s Rule Change on the Sale of Abortion Pills | In June, the United States Supreme Court abandoned nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time in this nation’s history, eliminated a fundamental right: the right to choose. This decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizati... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | One Reason We Can’t Find Homecare Workers: Their Growing Fear Of Violence | CAMBRIDGE, MA - MARCH 26: Personal care assistant Maria Colville leaves for work from Cambridge, MA. ... [+] (Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Boston Globe via Getty Images |
| Feb 20, 2023 | Private Equity And The Monopolization Of Medical Care | From 2013 to 2016, private equity firms acquired 355 physician practices. In the four years that ... [+] followed, private equity acquired 578 additional physician practices. Those numbers continue to grow. getty |
| Feb 15, 2023 | California Democrats propose $25 minimum wage for health workers | Union-aligned Democrats were set to introduce legislation Wednesday mandating a statewide $25 minimum wage for health workers and support staffers, likely setting up a pitched battle with hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics.
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| Feb 9, 2023 | People are taking a 20-cent 'wonder drug' to slow aging and lose weight. Some doctors say it's promising. | Health People are taking a 20-cent 'wonder drug' to slow aging and lose weight. Some doctors say it's promising.
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| Feb 3, 2023 | I was laid off from a public health job. Trust me, tech layoffs are different | Layoffs in the tech sector — think Google, Amazon, Meta, and the like — from jobs once thought to be secure and prestigious are making headlines. I’ve been seeing an outpouring of media coverage, including support extended toward newly unem... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | The era of health insurance disruptors is over | Your browser does not support the video element. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Feb 2, 2023 | As pandemic-era Medicaid provisions lapse, millions approach a coverage cliff | States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the COVID-19 pandemic expire.
The upheaval, which begins in April, will put millions of low-income Americans at risk of losing health cover... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Another police shooting, another haunting video | Last Friday, the Memphis Police Department released its videos of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, prompting an outpouring of protest, grief and commemoration across the country, including in California where Nichols spent much of his lif... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Some addiction treatment centers turn big profits by scaling back care | Near the end of his scheduled three-month stay at a rehab center outside Austin, Texas, Daniel McKegney was forced to tell his father in North Carolina that he needed more time and more money, he recently recalled.
His father had already re... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | In The U.S., Conspiracy Theories And Alternate Facts Undermine Public Health And Cause Death | In June, 2021, U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held a press conference to call for ... [+] the dismissal of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Greene continues to misinform the public on vaccines and public health. (Photo by JIM WATSON / A... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks | Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | California Lunar New Year mass shooter dead, motive unclear | Image from Twitter by WCMU Public Radio
The motive for a shooting that killed 10 people celebrating Lunar New Year in California remained unclear Monday, the day after the alleged gunman shot himself dead as police moved to arrest him.
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| Jan 20, 2023 | Transgender people in rural America struggle to find doctors willing or able to provide care | For Tammy Rainey, finding a health care provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives.
As a transgender woman, Rainey needs the hormone estrogen, which allows her ... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Ending Involuntary Commitments Would Shift Burden of Montana’s Dementia Care to Strapped Communities | State lawmakers from both parties in Montana have shown support for a plan to stop the practice of committing people with Alzheimer’s disease, other types of dementia, or traumatic brain injuries without their consent to the troubled Montan... |
| Jan 10, 2023 | Will new rules make it harder for telehealth patients to get certain drugs? | Controlled substances became a little less controlled during the pandemic. That benefited both patients (for their health) and telehealth startups (to make money).
Some potentially addictive medications — like buprenorphine and Adderall — a... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | New York doctors now required to prescribe naloxone to some patients on opioid painkillers | Without opioid painkillers to dull the ache in his knees and other joints, Arnold Wilson wouldn't be able to walk half a block. The 63-year-old former New York City nurse has crippling arthritis for which he takes OxyContin twice a day and ... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is no end-run around abortion bans | The emergency department is often called a hospital’s front door. For many people desperate for reproductive care, it is being seen as their last chance. But these days, getting treatment for pregnancy-related medical emergencies in the eme... |
| Jan 2, 2023 | Want a clue about health care costs in advance? New tools take a crack at it | Need medical treatment in the new year and want to nail down your out-of-pocket costs before you walk into the doctor's office? There's a new tool for that, at least for insured patients.
As of Jan. 1, health insurers and employers that off... |
| Dec 30, 2022 | We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2022 | This year, STAT deepened its footholds in a number of coverage areas, from hospitals and insurance to reproductive health to health tech. Our staff also looked with admiration — and some envy — to many other journalists doing great reportin... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | She didn't get shoulder surgery but was billed anyway and sent to collections | Grace Elizabeth Elliott was surprised when she got a $1,100 surgery bill from a hospital in Venice, Florida.
The California resident said she initially thought it was a scam but after calling the hospital discovered it was a result of a cle... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | CMS Has The Clout To Significantly Improve Health Care Delivery, But Fearing Political And Legal Backlash Has Settled Instead For Band-Aids | US President Joe Biden signs an executive order intended to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, ... [+] after delivering remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | In an industry first, ShelterZoom gives Argentine patients control over their medical records with its smart-document SaaS | Jessel Renolayan, Tech Times 16 December 2022, 10:12 am
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ShelterZoom, a leading blockchain-based, smart-document SaaS provider, partners with Policlinico Modelo de Cipolletti, a leading private hospital in Arg... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | States challenge Biden to lower drug prices by allowing imports from Canada | The Biden administration is facing mounting pressure from states to let them import medicine from Canada to help lower prescription drug costs.
Colorado on Dec. 5 became at least the fourth state to seek federal permission to use the strate... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Need an ambulance? Depending on the state, it will cost you | Although the U.S. outlawed most surprise medical bills starting this year, people who face a health emergency could still find themselves on the hook for hundreds of dollars — or more — in out-of-network fees.
For patients with health insur... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients: "It really has to do with dollars" | The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation this fall is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hospitals over the past decade, as they shuttered children's wards, which often operate in the red, and expanded the nu... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits. | Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developi... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | When Paxlovid Is ‘Commercialized’ In 2023, Patient Access To The Covid-19 Treatment Will Depend On Insurance Status | Paxlovid is an antiviral used to treat Covid-19. (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty ... [+] Images)dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Patients could feel pinch as health plans seek to offload pricey prescription costs | Anna Sutton was shocked when she received a letter from her husband's job-based health plan stating that Humira, an expensive drug used to treat her daughter's juvenile arthritis, was now on a long list of medications considered "nones... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Popular Medicare Advantage plans have 'clear cases of overpayments and improper billing of US taxpayers,' advocates and analysts say | Republicans and Democrats have seen increasing consensus around Medicare Advantage, but it's causing millions of dollars in overcharges. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photos
Medicare Advantage is an increasingly popular way for adults 65 and older... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | Pharmalittle: Private equity moving to buy clinical trials firms; data provider limits media access to drug prices | And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda, for now, appears rather modest. We plan to promenade extensively ... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | A new use for dating apps: Chasing STIs | (Eric Harkleroad/KHN illustration)
Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey use dating apps on the job — and their boss knows it.
Both are public health nurses employed by Linn County Public Health in eastern Iowa. They've learned that dating ... |
| Nov 20, 2022 | Meet a woman suffering from long COVID who quit her job, spent $11,000 on treatments, but still can't get disability insurance | Thousands of Americans have likely left the workforce because of long COVID. Boy Anupong/Getty Images
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Jenna Dreier stopped working after developing debilitating long COVID symptoms.
Thousands of Americans have likely left the wor... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | As STDs proliferate, companies rush to market at-home test kits. But are they reliable? | Among the more remarkable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis.
But that fast-track fo... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Medicare’s midterm punts, MA marketing schemes, and a closer look at the Abiomed deal | You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money through the health care system. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Medicare punts big moves ahead of midterms
Medicare unleashed an ... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Missouri hospital the first confirmed federal investigation of denied emergency abortion | President Joe Biden’s administration told hospitals in July they must provide emergency abortions when necessary even in states with strict bans in place.
And here in Missouri, a Joplin hospital is apparently the first in the nation to be i... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Hospitals need to make their websites as accessible as their physical spaces | It would be anathema for a health care facility in the U.S. to have a main entrance that’s not physically accessible to all people. Yet many of their digital front doors block people with disabilities. They need to change that.
More than 30... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Montana may be moving away from its innovative plan for setting hospital prices for public workers | 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 n... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug — and one "no-brainer" alternative | 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.
"I don't date people who don't take care of their health," said Tenore... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Texas revamps "active-shooter" drills at K-12 schools to minimize trauma | AUSTIN, Texas — After Britt Kelly's son participated in a lockdown drill two years ago in his Lamar, Texas, kindergarten class, he had nightmares and wet his bed. Now 8, he can sleep only with a light on.
In August, Mary Jackson's daughter,... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | As links to MS deepen, researchers accelerate efforts to develop an Epstein-Barr vaccine | Maybe you’ve never heard of the Epstein-Barr virus. But it knows all about you.
Chances are, it’s living inside you right now. About 95% of American adults are infected sometime in their lives. And once infected, the virus stays ... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Hearing aids available over the counter for as low as $199, without a prescription, as 2017 law takes effect | Starting Monday, consumers will be able to buy hearing aids directly off store shelves and at dramatically lower prices as a 2017 federal law finally takes effect.
Where for decades it cost thousands of dollars to get a device that could be... |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Will COVID spike again this fall? 6 tips to help you stay safe | Last year, the emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus caught many people by surprise and led to a surge in cases that overwhelmed hospitals and drove up fatalities. Now we're learning that Omicron is mut... |
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Health | Baby, that bill is high: Private equity ‘gambit’ squeezes excessive ER charges from routine births | Elizabeth Huffner thinks it is obvious: A full-term, healthy pregnancy results in a birth.
“When your due date has come and gone, you’re expecting a baby any minute,” Huffner said. So she was surprised to discover she was an “unknown accide... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Health
Health | Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts | DRESSLERVILLE, Nev. — Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the b... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | A new era of weight-loss gadgets is here — but for dieters, there's no easy answer | I felt a special kind of awe, then panic, watching my glucose levels skyrocket for the first time after relishing a cold beer on a sweltering summer evening. It was a biological push notification from the fluid just beneath my skin that the... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | SoftBank-backed Elemy aimed to transform autism care. But current and former employees say the $1.15 billion startup overpromised on its capacity to treat kids. | Shutterstock; Rachel Mendelson/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Oct 11, 2022 | New generation of weight loss medications offer promise — but at a price | Excitement is building about a new generation of drugs that tout the ability to help adults with excess weight shed more pounds than older drugs on the market.
Some patients, obesity medicine specialists say, are experiencing decreases in b... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Sonara Health raises $3M for digital methadone management platform | Photo: STEVE DEBENPORT/Getty Images |
| Sep 30, 2022 | How the Inflation Reduction Act can help decarbonize the health care industry | The climate crisis — the greatest threat to human health in history — is often framed “in ways that pay little attention to its health dimensions,” as the authors of The Lancet’s annual “Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Ch... |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Turned away from urgent care — and toward a big ER bill | Frankie Cook remembers last year's car crash only in flashes.
She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Georgia. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow down but lost control of her ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Family gets reprieve from $2,700 ambulance bill after report spotlights the charges | Peggy Dula is as surprised as she is relieved. The 55-year-old resident of St. Charles, Illinois, had been fighting a $2,700 ambulance bill for nearly a year. Now, the amount she owes from her September 2021 car wreck appears to be zero.
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| Sep 27, 2022 | Health funding battles, a nutrition policy overhaul, and two CBD developments | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Everything you need to know about health care in this week’s go... |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Medicare Advantage boosterism, providers’ surprise billing savior in Texas, and a health insurance firewall | You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money through the health care system. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The latest in the Medicare Advantage Discourse™
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| Sep 21, 2022 | Toddler formula sales are growing, but experts warn that most kids don't need it | Formulas for toddlers are a burgeoning business in the United States: Sales of the drinks more than doubled in recent years as companies convinced parents that their little ones needed the liquid boost. But many experts warn that these prod... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Genetic tests for breast cancer patients create treatment opportunities — and confusion | The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of genetic tests, including new instruments to inform patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer about the risk of recurrence and to guide their treatment.
But the clinical significan... |
