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When evaluating value-based care, consider whether costs are falling and quality is improving
During the Health Journalism 2018 conference in Phoenix, one presenter was unequivocal about the significance of value-based care in lowering costs…
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New tip sheet can assist your coverage of threats to Medicaid dental benefits
Roughly 38 million low-income adults across the United States rely upon Medicaid for a broad range of health care benefits.…
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Dental benefits for Medicaid-eligible adults vary widely by state
In spite of efforts by dental directors and oral health coalitions to preserve dental services in their states, history has…
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Food insecurity: Especially for older adults, it’s about more than hunger
Food insecurity — lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life — is a serious and…
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Reporting on food insecurity and older adults
The problem of food insecurity is growing worse as our population ages and socioeconomic disparities increase. Food insecurity is not…
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Investigator, researcher share tips on how to cover suicide
Death by suicide is on the rise and is the second-leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 39.…
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Ohio Medicaid program demands new payment strategy after journalists explain how PBMs use ‘spread pricing’
Over the past six months, journalists for the Columbus Dispatch have written more than 40 articles about the murky world…
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Increased optimism about new Alzheimer’s drugs, tests
You may have recently heard about the multimillion-dollar donation that Bill Gates and Leonard Lauder made to support research into…
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Landmark oral health report due for an update
In his landmark Oral Health in America report in 2000, then-Surgeon General David Satcher reminded the nation that oral health…
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Newly merged infectious disease organization offers journalists’ resources
More than five million children around the world die before the age of five from infectious diseases like pneumonia, malaria…
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