A Progress Check on Hospital Price Transparency
For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that’s changing — but there’s a vigorous…
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Feds Move to Rein In Prior Authorization, a System That Harms and Frustrates Patients
When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest.As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for…
Black Patients Dress Up and Modify Speech to Reduce Bias, California Survey Shows
A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I…
Reentry Programs to Help Former Prisoners Obtain Health Care Are Often Underused
When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions…
Montana Seeks to Insulate Nursing Homes From Future Financial Crises
Wes Thompson, administrator of Valley View Home in the northeastern Montana town of Glasgow, believes the only reasons his skilled nursing facility has avoided the fate of…
Armed With Hashtags, These Activists Made Insulin Prices a Presidential Talking Point
Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the…
Doctors Are Disappearing From Emergency Rooms as Hospitals Look to Cut Costs
Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to a Tennova Healthcare hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee, in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about…
Se acaba la era de las vacunas y las pruebas gratuitas contra covid. ¿Quién va a…
Se está acabando el tiempo para las vacunas contra covid, los kits de prueba caseros, e incluso algunos tratamientos, gratuitos.La Casa Blanca anunció este mes que la…
Era of ‘Free’ Covid Vaccines, Test Kits, and Treatments Is Ending. Who Will Pay the…
Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments.The White House announced this month that the national public health…
Community Resurrects Colorado Birth Center Closed by Private Equity Firm
When a private equity firm closed Seasons Midwifery and Birth Center in Thornton, Colorado, in October, the state lost one of its few non-hospital birthing centers and 53…