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Insurance
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What Missouri, Oklahoma teach us about state efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility
Missouri voters in August approved a ballot measure that would expand Medicaid eligibility to include healthy adults, beginning July 1,…
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Employers and insurers paid hospitals 247% more than Medicare rates, new study shows
Research released today shows that from 2016 through 2018, self-insured employers and commercial health insurers in 49 states and the…
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Report card shows erosion of health insurance coverage in the states
The coronavirus has certainly pushed the health care system into a crisis. Still, even before the pandemic began earlier this…
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Wide variations in health care providers’ charges raise questions about the right rate
Early last month, a report from the Pioneer Institute in Boston showed that Massachusetts consumers could have saved $22 million…
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Report shows wide variation in what insurers pay providers versus what Medicare would have paid
During the coronavirus pandemic, any number of good news stories seem to get little or no coverage because most health…
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N.C. journalist goes to Europe for lessons about opioid crisis
Last year, Taylor Knopf, a health care journalist at North Carolina Health News, spent more than a week out of…
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Hefty issue of HealthBeat headed for mailboxes
The latest issue of HealthBeat is expected to be delivered to members of the Association of Health Care Journalists any…
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As death rates rise, nursing and LTC facilities face critical testing, PPE challenges
Six months after the first nursing home residents died of the novel coronavirus, many nursing homes and long-term care facilities…
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Pulitzer finalists explain how to use court documents to cover hospitals’ predatory billing practices
Court documents are among the best sources for journalists covering the aggressive tactics tht hospitals and health systems use when…
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Brenner leaves UnitedHealth Group to return to primary care
One of the nation’s most innovative physicians is leaving UnitedHealth Group to start a primary care practice in New Jersey.…