Fearing Medicaid cuts, states wield health data as a political weapon
(By Casey Ross for STAT) The statistics are encouraging: In the half a year since the state expanded access to
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(By Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, Tricia Neuman, and Marsha Gold for Kaiser Family Foundation) With nearly one-third of all Medicare
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(By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review) Here are the states with the most for-profit community hospitals as of 2015,
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(By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review) Here are the states with the most nonprofit community hospitals as of 2015,
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(By Rebecca Smith, Side Effects Public Media published by Kaiser Health News) Caroline Brown, a sophomore at the University of
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(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) The federal government will cut 769 hospitals’ Medicare payments in fiscal year 2017
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(By Melissa Perrell Phipps for STAT) Just before Thanksgiving in 2010, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a
Read MoreMontana May Be Model For Medicaid Work Requirement
(By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio, with partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News) Montana State Senator Ed Buttrey is
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