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Urgent Care or ER? With One-Stop Shop, Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof
Hospitals in several states are partnering with a private equity-backed company to offer combined emergency and urgent care in a single building. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services often by a lot.
Whats Behind New Combined Urgent Care-ER Facilities
Its Saturday afternoon, and your 4-year-old is bleeding from a gash on his face after a playtime mishap. Should you go to the emergency room or the urgent care clinic? VHC Health in Arlington, Va., plans to soon join a small but growing number of hospitals moving to resolve this dilemma by offering both types […]
Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times
Public safety and health care organizations are using drones to speed up lifesaving treatment during medical emergencies in which every second counts.
Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor
Colorado defended its high disenrollment rates following the covid crisis by saying that what goes up must come down. Advocates and researchers disagree.
Colorado expuls籀 a beneficiarios de Medicaid como si fuera un estado republicano
Es el 繳nico estado dem籀crata entre un grupo de estados republicanos con altas tasas de desafiliaci籀n, que incluye a Idaho, Montana, Texas y Utah, en un proceso de Medicaid que comenz籀 en la primavera de 2023.
Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals
If Indiana officials approve a proposed hospital merger in western Indiana in the coming months, the state will have its first hospital monopoly created by a Certificate of Public Advantage. Other such deals have resulted in government reports documenting diminished care in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Es el 繳ltimo cap穩tulo de una larga saga que involucra a Magellan Diagnostics, con sede en Massachusetts, que pagar獺 $42 millones en multas, seg繳n el Departamento de Justicia.
Investigan si los armadillos son responsables de la propagaci籀n de la lepra en Florida
La regi籀n central de Florida es un foco cr穩tico de esta antigua enfermedad, lo que desconcierta a los cient穩ficos que est獺n analizando el fen籀meno.
Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade Even When It Reports Failure
Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
The Case of the Armadillo: Is It Spreading Leprosy in Florida?
A single Central Florida county reported 13% of all U.S. leprosy cases in 2020. Researchers have teamed up to investigate whether armadillos are passing the bacteria that cause the disease to humans which is especially concerning as the animals expand their range farther north.
Doctors Take On Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured Patients
More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in Americas dental deserts.
M矇dicos de atenci籀n primaria asumen tareas de dentista para ayudar a pacientes vulnerables
En Denver, la inestabilidad de la vivienda, las barreras del idioma, la falta de transporte y el “costo astron籀mico” de la odontolog穩a sin seguro hacen que la atenci籀n dental sea inaccesible para muchos nuevos inmigrantes.
Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
Hospitals are increasingly stretching a velvet rope, offering concierge service to an affluent clientele. Critics say the practice exacerbates primary care shortages.
A State-Sanctioned Hospital Monopoly Raises Concerns
The Federal Trade Commission has long argued that competition makes the economy better. But some states have stopped the agency from blocking hospital mergers that create local or regional monopolies, and the results have been messy. Two dozen states have at some point passed controversial legislation waiving anti-monopoly laws, allowing rival hospitals to merge and replacing competition […]
After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
Ballad Health was granted the nations largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. Since then, its emergency rooms have become more than three times as slow.
Health Care Workers Push for Their Own Confidential Mental Health Treatment
Montana may join about a dozen other states in creating safe havens that keep health care professionals from facing scrutiny from licensure boards for seeking mental health or addiction treatment.
More Navigators Are Helping Women Travel to Have Abortions
After the U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to an abortion and many states banned the procedure, reproductive health care organizations hired dozens of people to help patients arrange travel and pay for care.
Ouch. That Free Annual Checkup Might Cost You. Heres Why.
The designers of the Affordable Care Act might have assumed that they spelled out with sufficient clarity that millions of Americans would no longer have to pay for certain types of preventive care. But they didnt reckon with Americas ever-creative medical billing juggernaut.
Senate Probes the Cost of Assisted Living and Its Burden on American Families
In the wake of a 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-New York Times series, members of the Special Committee on Aging are asking residents and their families to submit their bills and are calling for a Government Accountability Office study.
