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Medicare Advantage health plans dodged auditors, overcharged taxpayers millions

A review of 90 government audits reveals the plans have repeatedly tried to get around mandates to document medical conditions the government paid them to treat.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

What would a world without medical debt look like? In Germany's former coal-mining region medical debt is almost unknown, despite economic challenges and health problems. Here's why.

WEKU

Adams to forcibly hospitalize homeless

Adams has no answer for homelessness — he should ask frontline workers

Salon

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The Medicare Advantage plan scandal

Health insurers that issue Medicare Advantage plans have repeatedly tried to sidestep regulations, audits find

Salon

Veterans, beware of scammers promising help to get toxic exposure benefits

Hines VA Hospital has heard reports that Chicago-area veterans are among those being targeted by scammers offering to help process or submit PACT Act claims on a veteran’s behalf.

Chicago Sun-Times

Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

For California's indigenous farmworker population, healthcare that respects their traditions is vital.

Capital & Main

Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding

Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana's 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care

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'I tried to take my own life and it showed me how bad the mental health care system in Wales is'

Mitchell claims he was sent home with a basic mental health support plan after trying to get help for months.

Wales Online

Mum wins £3,000 payout from council after son misses FOUR MONTHS of school

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found there was a 'delay and poor communication' by Salford city council over the education and health care plan of a child with autism

Daily Mirror

Google wants to digitize troops' samples

The tech giant seeks access to a priceless trove of veterans’ skin samples, tumor biopsies and organ slices

Salon

Healthy Men: Why men are the way they are

Dear Heathy Men: You’ve mentioned several times in this column that men don’t go to the doctor as often as women and that they live shorter, sicker lives than women. I’m sure that’s true. But what I really want to know is why. Why don’t men take better care of…

Tribune News Service

California official attacked with racial slur at meeting where racism is declared public health crisis

Audience member yelled ‘go back to China’ at Orange County Health Care Agency Director Clayton Chau

The Independent UK

The pandemic gave digital health companies a historic opportunity to rebuild health care. We can’t afford to squander it

Digital health startups often overstate the benefits of their solutions. No wonder their valuations dropped in 2022, writes Yonatan Adiri.

Fortune

NHS ‘highly dependent’ on substandard private beds for children’s mental health care

Exclusive: More than one third of private children’s mental health beds are substandard, CQC data shows

The Independent UK

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Caixin Global

Editorial: China Needs to Build Up Medical Capacity to Tackle Covid

With the latest round of easing, authorities face the challenge of preventing shortages and stabilizing economic growth, while also optimizing virus control measures

WEKU

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

Chicago Sun-Times

With respiratory illnesses on the rise in Chicago, health care providers warn children’s medications may be hard to find

“Kids can’t cope with pain like adults,” said Gwen Smith, a mom of three from Chicago’s North Side. “It’d be like torture, in a way, to have to witness your child suffering if your local pharmacy doesn’t have what you need.”

Tribune News Service

Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

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The Best ETFs to Buy Now? Check out These 3

With the expected less aggressive but drawn-out interest rate hikes by the Fed to tame inflation and other headwinds, the stock market is expected to remain volatile in the foreseeable future. Hence, it would be wise to invest in Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE), Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (BSV),…

Tribune News Service

Man indicted on capital murder charge in Dallas Methodist hospital shooting, records show

DALLAS — The man accused of fatally shooting two health care workers inside Methodist hospital in October was indicted by a Dallas County grand jury Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients

The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation this fall is a byproduct of financial decisions made by hospitals over the past decade, as they shuttered children’s wards, which often operate in the red, and expanded the number of beds available for more profitable endeavors like joint replacements…

Chicago Sun-Times

Nurses can lead the way to turn closed schools into neighborhood hubs for health

Imagine all of the social determinants of health that could be addressed by repurposing these schools into hubs for health.

Capital & Main

In Rural California, Farmworkers Fend for Themselves for Health Care

Where government and health care institutions are absent, some communities turn to grassroots action.

Chicago Sun-Times

Paxlovid free so far, but sticker shock awaits next year if you need the COVID treatment

Within months, the government plans to stop footing the bill — and millions of the uninsured and seniors might have to pay full price. Experts say that means fewer people will get the potentially life-saving treatments.

Tribune News Service

Rural Colorado tries to fill health worker gaps with apprenticeships

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado — During her 12-hour overnight shift, Brianna Shelton helps residents at BeeHive Homes Assisted Living go to the bathroom. Many of them have dementia, and some can’t get out of bed on their own. Only a few can remember her name, but that doesn’t matter to her.

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