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2021-12-24 New Parents Slapped With Surprise Bills for Treating Newborns Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News After Christine Malik gave birth to her first daughter three years ago, a clinician affiliated with a company called Pediatrix entered the hospital room and fitted the infant with sensors and wires for a hearing test. The child […]
2021-12-22 NICU Bill Installment Plan: That’ll Be $45,843 a Month for 12 Months, Please Victoria Knight Close to midnight on Nov. 12, 2020, Bisi Bennett was sitting on the couch in her pajamas and feeling uncomfortable. She was about seven months pregnant with her first child, Dorian, and the thought that she could […]
2021-12-21 Local Pharmacists Fill Rx Void as Big Brands Pull Out of Rural Areas Markian Hawryluk Bill Mather, a pharmacist in the small Iowa city of Greenfield, wanted to make sure his neighbors could fill their prescriptions without driving long distances or enduring long wait times. So when pharmacy chains and big-box stores began […]
2021-12-21 The Dirty Secret of America’s Clean Dishes by Max Blau and Lylla Younes, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Sacrifice Zones Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution Hollie […]
20021-12-20 ‘The Charges Seem Crazy’: Hospitals Impose a ‘Facility Fee’ — For a Video Visit Michelle Andrews When Arielle Harrison’s 9-year-old needed to see a pediatric specialist at Yale New Haven Health System in June, a telehealth visit seemed like a great option. Since her son wasn’t yet eligible to be vaccinated against covid-19, […]
2021-12-19 Abortion Rights Advocates Try to Change Opinions With Deeply Personal Conversations Patty Wight, Maine Public Radio It’s Saturday, and Sarah Mahoney is one of several Planned Parenthood volunteers knocking on doors in Windham, Maine, a politically moderate town not far from Portland. No one answers at the first couple of houses. But as […]
2021-12-18 Seeking Refills: Aging Pharmacists Leave Drugstores Vacant in Rural America Markian Hawryluk Ted Billinger Jr. liked to joke that he would work until he died. That turned out to be prophetic. When Billinger died of a heart attack in 2019 at age 71, he was still running Teddy B’s, the pharmacy his father […]
2021-12-17 Nurses in Crisis Over Covid Dig In for Better Work Conditions Christine Spolar and Mark Kreidler and Rae Ellen Bichell Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength in numbers and with labor actions not seen in years. In California, which has a strong union tradition, Kaiser Permanente management misjudged […]
2021-12-16 With Overdose Deaths Surging, Advocates on the Ground Push for Over-the-Counter Naloxone Aneri Pattani Treatment for addiction is available. For help, call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP), or visit findtreatment.gov. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Louise Vincent figures her group, the North Carolina Survivors Union, saves at least 1,690 lives a year. […]
2021-12-15 ‘An Arm and a Leg’: She Fights Health Insurers for Fun — And Wins Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Health insurance is like some medieval horror, law professor Jackie Fox says. But, funny thing: She also says insurance fights […]