Tag: healthcare
Most States Have Yet to Permanently Fund 988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline
(Christina Saint Louis, KFF) Since the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline transitioned a year ago to the three-digit crisis phone number 988, there has been...
Pain Clinic Chain to Pay $11.4M to Settle Medicare and Medicaid...
(KFF Health News) The owner of one of California’s largest chains of pain management clinics has agreed to pay nearly $11.4 million to California,...
Members of Congress Want Answers on Hospice Fraud and Abuse
(The Center Square) In a June 21 letter to Inspector General Christi A. Grimm, five Members of Congress requested a briefing with the Office...
The Great Grift: How Billions in COVID-19 Relief Aid Was Stolen...
(AP) Much of the theft was brazen, even simple.
Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks....
Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising — And Getting Weirder
(Elisabeth Rosenthal, KFF) Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once...
AI May Be on Its Way to Your Doctor’s Office, But...
(Darius Tahir, KFF) What use could health care have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and,...
Biden Administration Issues New Warning About Medical Credit Cards
(Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News) The Biden administration on Thursday cautioned Americans about the growing risks of medical credit cards and other loans...
‘Dangerous Trend’: Medical Schools Are Ditching Standardized Tests in the Name...
(Alexa Schwerha, Daily Caller News Foundation) A developing medical school trend to ditch the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) requirement may not bode well...
High Inflation and Housing Costs Force Many Americans to Delay Needed...
(KHN) Green wanted the exam because cancer runs in her family. And she shared another health worry: Her large breasts cause her severe back...
Telehealth and Clinic Patients Get Blindsided by Hospital Fees
(KHN) When Brittany Tesso’s then-3-year-old son, Roman, needed an evaluation for speech therapy in 2021, his pediatrician referred him to Children’s Hospital Colorado in...
