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Jenny Gold was a senior correspondent for 51ÊÓƵ Health News until March 2023.
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A proton beam therapy center in Indiana is closing, and insurers are reluctant to cover the expensive treatment for common cancers. But plans for three new proton therapy centers for the D.C. area are still moving forward.
More than 40 percent of the people who signed up for insurance on Kynect, Kentucky's exchange, used an insurance broker.
Comprehensive report on end-of-life care says both medicine and society need to change "to make those final days better."
Strong leadership and common-sense budgeting created a model mental health care system in San Antonio.
With specialized training and a redirection of resources, San Antonio's police force is taking better care of mentally ill people, keeping them out of jail and saving $10 million a year.
On a reporter's cross country road trip, Americans talk about all the health policy highlights
Even if parents are providing health insurance, they often can't find out about what's happening when their adult children suffer from severe mental illnesses.
Between 2008 and 2012, multispecialty practices saw their bad debt go up 14 percent, according to a recent survey, and some have begun to change their business practices in response.
Employees in some Texas practices spend hours on hold trying to verify that patients have new insurance.
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