DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-02-04 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 and more […]
2023-02-03 Government Lets Health Plans That Ripped Off Medicare Keep the Money Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News 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 […]
2023-02-02 It’s ‘Telehealth vs. No Care’: Doctors Say Congress Risks Leaving Patients Vulnerable Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News When the covid-19 pandemic hit, Dr. Corey Siegel was more prepared than most of his peers. Half of Siegel’s patients — many with private insurance and Medicaid — were already using telehealth, logging onto […]
2023-02-01 FDA Experts Are Still Puzzled Over Who Should Get Which Covid Shots and When Arthur Allen 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. […]
2023-01-31 Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare? Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News 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, are the most recent financial reviews […]
2023-01-30 Unmet Needs: Critics Cite Failures in Health Care for Vulnerable Foster Children Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine Need Help? If you or someone you know is in a crisis, please call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. One night last month, a 9-year-old boy who had […]
2023-01-29 Wave of Rural Nursing Home Closures Grows Amid Staffing Crunch Tony Leys WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years. The Good Samaritan Society facility in Postville, Iowa, would close, administrators told Kruger […]
2023-01-28 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. The recent […]
2023-01-27 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 As he proposed to extend […]
2023-01-26 Latino Teens Are Deputized as Health Educators to Sway the Unvaccinated Heidi de Marco, California Healthline Classmates often stop Alma Gallegos as she makes her way down the bustling hallways of Theodore Roosevelt High School in southeast Fresno. The 17-year-old senior is frequently asked by fellow students about covid-19 testing, vaccine safety, and […]