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The letters function as liens that âprotectâ spine surgery clinics while patients could be left with inflated medical bills and unexpected health risks.
Stores like Walmart and Shopko opened pharmacies in small towns, either buying out the local pharmacy or driving it out of business. What happens when those chains later withdraw, leaving communities with no pharmacy?
Independent pharmacists who want to retire often have trouble attracting new pharmacists to take over their practices, particularly in rural areas. That can cause smaller towns to lose their pharmacies. With many pharmacists near retirement, the problem may only get worse.
In tough labor negotiations across the nation, here's what nurses donât want: âappreciation that is lip service,â âmarketing campaignsâ and âshiny new buildings.â And this year might well prove to be a turning point in efforts to organize health careâs essential workers.
Patients with other ailments are frustrated, and nurses and doctors are stressed and burned out, as unvaccinated covid-19 patients fill ICU and acute care beds.
A record number of hospitals closed in rural America last year. For the residents of Cuthbert, Georgia, the loss has meant many problems, including delayed care for emergencies that can turn deadly.
The American Medical Association and American Hospital Association are not arguing to halt the law that protects patients from unexpected bills from providers they didnât know were outside their insurance network. Instead, they want to change the rules for the mediators who will settle the dispute between insurers and providers.
As hospitals juggle holiday covid surges and all their other patients, the global supply chain crisis has left them short of critical supplies.
Montana nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax exemptions as charities each year in exchange for giving back to their communities. A KHN review found that some of Montanaâs richest medical centers are falling behind most state and national hospitals.
The Community Oncology Alliance is targeting the prescription drug provisions of the Build Back Better Act, saying they will trigger deep cuts in oncologistsâ pay, causing clinics to close and health care costs to rise. But it leaves out some important details.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Physician assistants are pushing to be renamed âphysician associates,â complaining their title is belittling and doesnât convey what they do. âWe donât assist,â they insist. Doctorsâ groups fear thereâs more than just a name in play.
Just as Uber Eats and Grubhub revolutionized food delivery, Black tech entrepreneurs want to change the way patients connect with doctors. They are using technology to match people of color with culturally competent professionals and the transportation they need to get to them.
Although itâs possible to buy travel insurance that provides some health coverage, the devil is in the fine print. Obama-era laws that prevent refusal of payment for preexisting conditions donât apply to travel insurance.
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Congress is making slow progress toward completing its ambitious social spending bill, although its Thanksgiving deadline looks optimistic. Meanwhile, a new survey finds the average cost of an employer-provided family plan has risen to more than $22,000. Thatâs about the cost of a new Toyota Corolla. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Rebecca Love, a nurse academic and entrepreneur, about the impending crisis in nursing.
Some insurers pocketed âeye-poppingâ overpayments, billing records show.
Hospitals and doctors are facing more demands for ivermectin as a covid-19 treatment, despite a lack of proof it works. In some Republican-dominated states, pushing for ivermectin interventions has become a conservative rallying cry.
More than 9 in 10 general acute-care hospitals have been penalized at least once in the past decade.
About 21% of patients diagnosed with covid during a hospital stay died, according to data analyzed for KHN. In-hospital rates of spread varied widely and patients had no way of checking them.
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