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Some Addiction Treatment Centers Turn Big Profits by Scaling Back Care
Renuka Rayasam and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio
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…
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 in government overpayments — some dating back a decade…
A Baby Spent 36 Days in an In-Network NICU. Why Did the Hospital Next Door Send a Bill?
Harris Meyer
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 Chicago home to her OB-GYN’s office at…
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 calloused hands, they gently lowered the child’s body…
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 different groups of Americans need to be vaccinated. That…
Montana Pharmacists May Get More Power to Prescribe
Keely Larson
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 retired, moved away, or left the field because…
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.
The audits, which cover billings from 2011 through 2013,…
California’s Resolve Questioned After It Grants Medi-Cal Contract Concessions
California’s decision last month to cancel the results of a long-planned bidding competition among commercial health plans in its Medicaid program has some industry insiders and consumer advocates wondering whether the state can…
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 DeSantis, on Jan. 17, 2023, during a press conference…
More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another Covid ‘New Normal’?
Phillip Reese
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 steady rise that dates back at least two decades.…