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The measure, which took effect Jan. 1, removes loopholes that made it easy for insurers to use arcane company guidelines to avoid paying for care. Patients now have an easier way to challenge those denials.
A student sought counseling help after feeling panicked when she had trouble paying a big tuition bill. A weeklong stay in a psychiatric hospital followed 鈥 along with a $3,413 bill. The hospital soft-pedaled its charity care policy.
Experts agreed there鈥檚 no definitive evidence to back up the Florida governor鈥檚 assertion.
Keeping a campaign promise, President Joe Biden has reopened enrollment for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act on healthcare.gov 鈥 and states that run their own health insurance marketplaces followed suit. At the same time, the Biden administration is moving to revoke the Trump administration鈥檚 permission for states to impose work requirements for some adults on the Medicaid health insurance program. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also, Rovner interviews medical student Inam Sakinah, president of the new group Future Doctors in Politics.
Lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing bills to restrict transgender kids from participating in sports and ban doctors from treating them.
Arthur and Maggie Kelley of St. Louis died 30 days apart. Maggie died of complications of dementia in November. Arthur, who had moved into her nursing home to be with her, died a month later of covid. Their family held a double funeral.
Many children with serious emotional or behavioral difficulties depend on schools for access to vital therapies. When schools and doctors' offices stopped providing in-person services last spring, kids became untethered.
Lawmakers answered pleas from strained health facilities in rural areas, agreed to cover the cost of training more new doctors, sought to strengthen efforts to equalize mental health coverage with that of physical medicine and instructed the federal government to collect data that could be used to rein in high medical bills.
Several large business groups, including health industry organizations, are cutting off contributions to Republicans who voted against the certification of Joe Biden鈥檚 election even after riots shut down the Capitol on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, the outgoing Trump administration not only approved a Medicaid block grant for Tennessee, but also made it difficult for the incoming Biden administration to undo. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Victoria Knight about the latest KHN-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 episode.
A growing number of 鈥減eer respites,鈥 nonclinical settings for psychiatric recovery, can help people in distress who mainly need to talk to people who understand their problems.
Recent deaths on a small Native American reservation in Montana have underlined the heightened risks for Indigenous youths and how suicide prevention programs are struggling to operate during the pandemic.
A UCSF emergency room physician reflects on California鈥檚 response to COVID-19 and on lessons learned 鈥 or not 鈥 as the coronavirus makes its second devastating surge.
Dr. Dale Bredesen is a well-known, well-respected neurologist. But his colleagues think the comprehensive Alzheimer鈥檚 program he鈥檚 marketing through a private company is a mixture of free-for-the-asking common sense and unproven interventions.
What鈥檚 a 67-year-old to do when COVID-19 shuts down the volunteering gigs that were his personal fountain of youth?
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
Black Americans are less likely to receive mental health treatment than the overall population. But as needs soar this year, faith leaders are tapping health professionals to share coping skills churchgoers and the community can use immediately.
A proposal in Washington state would use right-to-try laws to allow terminally ill patients access to psilocybin 鈥 the famed magic mushrooms of America鈥檚 psychedelic 鈥60s 鈥 to ease depression and anxiety.
Like almost a quarter of the 989 people killed by police in the U.S. in the past 12 months, Ricardo Mu帽oz had a serious mental illness. "Instead of a cop just being there, there should have been other responders," his sister says.
More than 246,000 people in the U.S. have been killed by the coronavirus, leaving hundreds of thousands of others grieving. Judith Graham, author of KHN鈥檚 Navigating Aging column, hosted a discussion on these unprecedented losses and dealing with bereavement. She was joined by Holly Prigerson, co-director of the Center for Research on End-of-Life Care at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and Diane Snyder-Cowan, leader of the bereavement professionals steering committee of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals.
As the coronavirus surges around the country, workers in nursing homes and assisted living centers are watching cases rise in long-term care facilities with a sense of dread. Many of these workers struggle with grief over the suffering they鈥檝e witnessed.
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