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She paid her husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

Eloise Reynolds encountered a perplexing reality in medical billing: Providers can come after patients for more money well after a bill has been paid.

WEKU

Should we mention suicide in obituaries?

The reluctance to acknowledge suicide has implications beyond the confines of a public notice

Salon

'All we want is revenge': How social media fuels gun violence among teens

Teens share photos or videos of themselves with guns and cash, sometimes calling out rivals, on social media. When posts go viral, fueled by "likes" and comments, the danger is hard to contain.

WEKU

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Abortion bans are fueling a rise in high-risk patients heading to Illinois hospitals

Illinois hospitals are seeing a surge of out-of-state patients who need abortion care at a hospital due to medical complications. But hospital-based abortions are more costly and harder to arrange.

WEKU

The painful pandemic lessons Mandy Cohen carries to the CDC

President Biden and others have lauded Mandy Cohen's pandemic leadership in North Carolina. Those in the state's most vulnerable communities tell a more nuanced story about the new CDC director.

WEKU

Big Pharma’s playbook for expensive meds

Here are just a few of the many examples of drug pricing practices that have driven consumers to demand change

Salon

Hospitals sued thousands of patients in North Carolina for unpaid bills, report finds

The suits pursued patients and their families, sometimes putting liens on homes. "I know my house will never be mine. It is going to be the hospital's," said Donna Lindabury, 70, who lost her case.

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California grads headed to HBCUs in the South prepare for college under abortion bans

As young adults prepare to leave blue states and head to historically black colleges in states where abortion is banned, they're getting ready to safeguard their reproductive health during college.

WEKU

Montana GOP ignores voters on abortion

Montana Republicans passed a version of the anti-abortion proposal that voters rejected only months earlier

Salon

A wasted chance to fight addiction? Opioid settlement cash fills a local budget gap

State attorneys general vowed the funds would go toward tackling the addiction crisis. But as with the tobacco payouts of the 1990s, local officials have started using them to fill budget shortfalls.

WEKU

They billed Medicare late for his anesthesia. He went to collections for a $3,000 tab

Medicare was supposed to cover the entire cost of his procedure. But the anesthesia provider failed to file its claims in a timely manner and billed the patient instead.

WEKU

FDA head's misinformation battle fizzles

The FDA Commissioner has called misinformation one of the deadliest killers in the United States — can we fight it?

Salon

Families fleeing anti-trans states

Draconian laws banning trans care are forcing some families to flee to more progressive states

Salon

How a combination of COVID lawsuits and media coverage keeps misinformation churning

Public health has had its day in court lately. And another day. And another day.

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A mom owed nearly $102,000 for her son's stay in a state mental health hospital

One North Carolina family's six-figure medical bill came from a state hospital. The attorney general, who is running for governor and says he's against high medical costs, tried to collect the debt.

Tribune News Service

Excessive drinking during the pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease death rates

Excessive drinking during the covid-19 pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, a KFF Health News analysis has found.

Salon

Lawsuit over Idaho anti-abortion law

Advocates challenge a law that forbids helping teens obtain abortion pills or leave the state for abortion care

Salon

California improving prisoner healthcare

The improvements "should help shut the revolving door between homelessness and incarceration"

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Idaho drops pregnancy deaths panel

The committee found that almost half of maternal deaths in Idaho in 2020 occurred after delivery

Tribune News Service

CDC to reduce funding for states’ child vaccination programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing funding to states for child vaccination programs, according to an agency email obtained by KFF Health News.

Tribune News Service

A new law is supposed to protect pregnant workers — but what if we don’t know how?

Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa Maria, California, suspected the ethidium bromide she was using in the lab for molecular cloning could put…

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The hospital bills didn’t find her, but a lawsuit did — plus interest

Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016.

Fortune

Insurers are bypassing hospitals and delivering pricey chemo and other infusion drugs via third-party pharmacies

As they lose out on billing for such drugs, hospitals and clinics are trying to convince states to limit this practice, known as "white bagging."

Salon

Against crowdfunding for medical debt

Black Americans use GoFundMe far less than white Americans, studies show. And those who do typically bring in less

WEKU

The hospital bills didn't find her, but a lawsuit did — plus interest

After emergency gallbladder surgery, a Tennessee woman said she spent months without a permanent mailing address and never got a bill from the hospital. She ended up in court a few years later.

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