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Centene Agrees to Pay Massachusetts $14 Million Over Medicaid Prescription Claims
Massachusetts has become the latest state to settle with health insurance giant Centene Corp. over allegations that it overbilled the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services, KHN has learned.
Centene, the nation’s…
Readers and Tweeters Take a Close Look at Eye Care and White Mulberry Leaf
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Beware cataract surgery price-gouging: Private equity groups are scooping up eye…
Environmental Justice Leader Says Proposition 30 Would Help Struggling Areas Clear the Air
Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News
RIALTO, Calif. — Ana Gonzalez grew up watching the Inland Empire transform from citrus groves and grapevines into warehouses and retail distribution centers. The booming region east of Los Angeles now…
Turned Away From Urgent Care — And Toward a Big ER Bill
Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes.
She was driving a friend home from high school on a winding road outside Rome, Georgia. She saw standing water from a recent rain. She tried to slow down but lost…
$2,700 Ambulance Bill Pulled Back From Collections
Peggy Dula is as surprised as she is relieved. The 55-year-old resident of St. Charles, Illinois, had been fighting a $2,700 ambulance bill for nearly a year. Now, the amount she owes from her September 2021 car wreck appears to…
Montana Health Officials Aim to Boost Oversight of Nonprofit Hospitals’ Giving
Katheryn Houghton
Montana health officials are proposing to oversee and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit hospitals make in their communities each year to justify their access to millions of dollars in tax…
Few Places Have More Medical Debt Than Dallas-Fort Worth, but Hospitals There Are Thriving
Noam N. Levey
PROSPER, Texas — Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles’ football season was big.
The game in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb began with fireworks and a four-airplane…
‘American Diagnosis’: When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care Funding Doesn’t Follow
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Health Plan Shake-Up Could Disrupt Coverage for Low-Income Californians
Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program.
A first-ever statewide…
At This Recovery Center, Police Cope With the Mental Health Costs of the Job
Katja Ridderbusch
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when his phone didn’t flutter with calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a sheriff’s office, or a fire station seeking…