Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid
(By Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR) With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children’s mental
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Medicaid
Gaps in Data About Hospital and Health System Finances Limit Transparency for Policymakers and Patients
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(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Fifteen insurers and trade groups met with Biden administration officials March 18 to
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(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation to require states to offer
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Seniors aged 65 have a nearly 70 percent chance of requiring long-term care services in the future. Of the 3.9
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(By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF Health News) In a little more than two years as CEO of a small
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(By Elizabeth Hinton and Amaya Diana for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Mar 04, 2024) In December 2022, the Centers
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(Chris Lee for The Kaiser Family Foundation published February 5, 2024) A new KFF analysis shows that most Medicare beneficiaries
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(By Angela Hart for KFF Health News) States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s
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