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$2,700 Ambulance Bill Pulled Back From Collections
Bram Sable-Smith
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…
Montana Health Officials Aim to Boost Oversight of Nonprofit Hospitals’ Giving
Katheryn Houghton
Montana health officials are proposing to oversee and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit hospitals make in their communities each year to justify their access to millions of dollars in tax…
Few Places Have More Medical Debt Than Dallas-Fort Worth, but Hospitals There Are Thriving
Noam N. Levey
PROSPER, Texas — Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles’ football season was big.
The game in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb began with fireworks and a four-airplane…
‘American Diagnosis’: When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care Funding Doesn’t Follow
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Episode 12: Indigenous and Invisible in the Big City…
Health Plan Shake-Up Could Disrupt Coverage for Low-Income Californians
Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program.
A first-ever statewide…
At This Recovery Center, Police Cope With the Mental Health Costs of the Job
Katja Ridderbusch
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when his phone didn’t flutter with calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a sheriff’s office, or a fire station seeking…
Britain’s Hard Lessons From Handing Elder Care Over to Private Equity
Christine Spolar
LONDON — A little over a decade ago, Four Seasons Health Care was among the largest long-term care home companies in Britain, operating 500 sites with 20,000 residents and more than 60 specialist centers. Domestic and…
Is Covid ‘Under Control’ in the US? Experts Say Yes
Promise: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under control, I promise you.”
President Joe Biden caused a stir in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sept. 18…
Embedded Bias: How Medical Records Sow Discrimination
Darius Tahir
David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he “used to be Ph.D. level” during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively: He was experiencing brain fog — a…
Journalists Dissect Medical Coding and Parse the President’s Words
KHN freelancer Helen Santoro discussed insurance coverage for transgender medical care on KCRW’s “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” on Sept. 21.
Click here to hear Santoro on “Press Play With Madeleine Brand”Read Santoro’s “Medical…