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Public Health
Patients in California County May See Refunds, Debt Relief From Charity Care Settlement
Molly Castle Work California’s largest public hospital plans to start notifying 43,000 former patients Monday that they may be eligible…
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Public Health
Proposed Rule Would Make Hospital Prices Even More Transparent
“How much is the ice cream?” A simple enough question, featured on a new TV and online advertisement, posed by…
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Public Health
Appeals court ruling on mifepristone
A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women’s…
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Public Health
Parents See Own Health Spiral as Their Kids’ Mental Illnesses Worsen
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline…
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Public Health
Promising Better, Cheaper Care, Kaiser Permanente’s National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism
As regulators review Kaiser Permanente’s proposed acquisition of a respected health system based in Pennsylvania, health care experts are still…
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Public Health
North Carolina Hospitals Have Sued Thousands of Their Patients, a New Report Finds
North Carolina hospitals — led by the state’s largest public medical system — have sued thousands of their patients since…
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Public Health
Feds Say Hospitals That Redistribute Medicaid Money Violate Law
The Biden administration wants to crack down on private arrangements among some hospitals to reimburse themselves for taxes that help…
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Public Health
Funyuns and Flu Shots? Gas Station Company Ventures Into Urgent Care
TULSA, Okla. — When Lou Ellen Horwitz first learned that a gas station company was going to open a chain…
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Infectious Disease
Scaling up HBV birth dose vaccine coverage could help avert more than 500,000 deaths
August 09, 2023 2 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial disclosures. ADD TOPIC TO…
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Infectious Disease
Social media offers ‘a sense of safety and community’ for transgender, nonbinary kids
August 14, 2023 2 min read Source/Disclosures Disclosures: Coyne reports being retained as an expert witness by Meta for future…
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