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Government Lets Health Plans That Ripped Off Medicare Keep the Money
Medicare Advantage plans for seniors dodged a major financial bullet Monday as government officials gave them a reprieve for returning hundreds of millions of dollars or more…
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A Baby Spent 36 Days in an In-Network NICU. Why Did the Hospital Next Door Send a Bill?
Brenna Kearney was seven months pregnant in December 2019 when she experienced what she thought were bad flu symptoms.
Her husband, Casey Trumble, drove her from their…
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When Gun Violence Ends Young Lives, These Men Prepare the Graves
MILLSTADT, Ill. — It was a late Friday afternoon when a team of men approached a tiny pink casket. One wiped his brow. Another stepped away to smoke a cigarette. Then, with…
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FDA Experts Are Still Puzzled Over Who Should Get Which Covid Shots and When
At a meeting to simplify the nation’s covid vaccination policy, the FDA’s panel of experts could agree on only one thing: Information is woefully lacking about how often…
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Montana Pharmacists May Get More Power to Prescribe
Mark Buck, a physician and pharmacist in Helena, Montana, said he’s been seeing more patients turn to urgent care clinics when they run out of medication. Their doctors have…
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Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare?
Today, KHN has released details of 90 previously secret government audits that reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors.…
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California’s Resolve Questioned After It Grants Medi-Cal Contract Concessions
Bernard J. Wolfson and Samantha Young
California’s decision last month to cancel the results of a long-planned bidding competition among commercial health plans in its Medicaid…
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Florida Gov. DeSantis Falsely Claims Bivalent Booster Boosts Chances of Covid Infection
Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact
“Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you’re more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster.”
Florida Republican Gov. Ron…
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More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another Covid ‘New Normal’?
The covid-19 pandemic has spurred a surge in the proportion of Californians who are dying at home rather than in a hospital or nursing home, accelerating a slow but…
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Unmet Needs: Critics Cite Failures in Health Care for Vulnerable Foster Children
Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine
Need Help? If you or someone you know is in a crisis, please call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
One night…
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