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Medicaid officials in Utah conducted a survey to answer a burning question in health policy: What happened to people dropped from the program in the post-pandemic âunwindingâ?
Family medicine doctors already deliver most of rural America's babies, and efforts to train more in obstetrics care are seen as a way to cope with labor and delivery unit closures.
Deep gaps in rural Americaâs child care system threaten communitiesâ stability by shrinking the workforce and inhibiting economic potential. Now that pandemic-era federal aid for child care programs and low-income families has ended, itâs up to state and local leaders to find solutions.
More than 1 million immigrants, most lacking permanent legal status, are covered by state health programs. Several states, including GOP-led Utah, will soon add or expand such coverage.
In the past year, opioid settlement money has gone from an emerging funding stream for which people had lofty but uncertain aspirations to a coveted pot of billions being invested in remediation efforts. Here are some important and evolving factors to watch going forward.
Thousands of medical devices are sold, and even implanted, with no safety tests.
As opioid settlement dollars land in government coffers, a swarm of businesses are positioning themselves to profit from the windfall. But will their potential gains come at the expense of the settlementsâ intended purpose â to remediate the effects of the opioid epidemic?
Federal officials issued their first guidelines on preparing morel mushrooms after a deadly food poisoning outbreak in Montana, noting the toxins in the delicacy arenât fully understood.
Thousands of people shared their experiences and related to the financial drain on families portrayed in the âDying Brokeâ series, a joint project by Ńîšóĺú´ŤĂ˝Ňîl Health News and The New York Times that examined the costs of long-term care.
Some states haven't begun using opioid settlement funds intended to help curb the opioid epidemic. Meanwhile, more than 100,000 Americans died of an overdose last year.
Major policy changes and disavowals have made this a watershed year for curbing the use of the discredited âexcited deliriumâ diagnosis to explain deaths in police custody. Now the ripple effects are spreading across the country into court cases, state legislation, and police training classes.
Colorado officials say they havenât been able to stand up a program to import drugs from Canada because of drugmaker opposition â and the Biden administrationâs inaction.
Native American leaders see bison herds and ancestral gardens as ways to bring healthy eating to their people.
States and counties look to expand programs that accept donations of unused surplus drugs from places like nursing homes and hospitals and redistribute them to low-income and uninsured residents.
The FDA and the manufacturer were alerted to Profemur titanium hips breaking inside U.S. patients as of 2005. It took 15 years to recall the devices. Many fractures could have been avoided.
The bottleneck caused by statesâ reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.
New research finds that private wells near more than 82% of select military sites were contaminated with PFAS chemicals.
About a third of the 130,000 people Utah has dropped from Medicaid this year say they now lack health insurance. Itâs a glimpse into the fate of people caught up in Medicaidâs âunwinding.â
The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for millions of older Americans, in part by underestimating how many policyholders would use their coverage.
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