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Reporter shares experience covering Medicaid’s orthodontic benefits
After a hint from her own dentist, Sheila Hagar started looking into concerns about the rising numbers of Medicaid kids getting…
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AHCJ data include 16,806 nursing home deficiencies
AHCJ’s latest update to nursing home inspection data gives members three years of the most severe deficiencies found during inspections…
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Radio series looks beyond medical care for New York’s least healthy county
The Bronx has ranked as the least-healthy county in New York State for several years running. The news team at…
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Clearing up confusion about those enrolled in both Medicare, Medicaid
Dual eligibles are low-income elderly or disabled people enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. The distinctions are sometimes bewildering. It’s easy…
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Connections between housing, health: Finding stories and getting the reporting right
Megan Sandel, M.D., M.P.H., an expert on the impact of housing on child health, says journalists would do well to…
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Baseball’s Schilling blames tobacco for cancer; what do reporters need to know about links?
The ties between smokeless tobacco and baseball run deep. The immortal Babe Ruth claimed Pinch Hit was his chew of…
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More on understanding – and unearthing – health care costs
The post we did on Clear Health Costs got a lot of positive reaction so we asked the team involved…
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New key concept: The inequality of violent injury and death
The statistics are hard to believe. The most dangerous counties in the United States have rates of violent death that…
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How to understand 2015 exchange plan insurance rate changes
It’s rate increase season, and as we head into the second ACA enrollment season, it’s hard to understand why some…
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Are medical, dental boards public or private? Case over teeth-whitening services may decide
A long-simmering feud between North Carolina’s state dental board and a group of non-dentists who provide teeth-whitening services in malls…