Are #Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. — The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect. #News #Law #USPolitics #Health #Healthcare #Doctors #ReproductiveRights #Pregnancy
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Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.
The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked t...
How One of the Nation’s Largest Opioid Makers Escaped a $7 Billion Federal Penalty — For a decade, the Justice Department delayed a winning criminal case against Philadelphia-based Endo Health Solutions. That allowed the company to vastly expand its narcotics empire and execute a corporate escape plan. #News #Health #Law #Government #Regulation #Court #Pharmaceuticals #Drugs #DOJ
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Endo’s End Around: How One of the Nation’s Largest Opioid Makers Escaped a $7 Billion Federal Penalty
For a decade, the Justice Department delayed a winning criminal case against Philadelphia-based Endo Health Solutions. That allowed the company to ...
A Strange Alliance: Oxygen Companies and Their #Medicare Patients Want #Congress to Pay the Companies More — Some patients who have suffered at the hands of Lincare and Philips Respironics have joined forces with these corporations to lobby for an end to Medicare’s competitive bidding process for oxygen and to make liquid oxygen available. #News #Government #Health #Healthcare #Legislation #CPAP #SleepApnea
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A Strange Alliance: Oxygen Companies and Their Medicare Patients Want Congress to Pay the Companies More
Some patients who have suffered at the hands of Lincare and Philips Respironics have joined forces with these corporations to lobby for an end to M...
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file.
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Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.
Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and ...
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As the #Olympics Approach, #LosAngeles Considers Crackdown on Illegal #Vacation Rentals City officials are proposing stricter enforcement, higher fines and new #technology in part to prevent rent-controlled apartments from being listed on #Airbnb and https://Booking.com, the subject of a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation. #News #LA #Housing #Property
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As the Olympics Approach, Los Angeles Considers Crackdown on Illegal Vacation Rentals
City officials are proposing stricter enforcement, higher fines and new technology in part to prevent rent-controlled apartments from being listed ...
#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Key Treatment for Kids With #Autism — Leaked internal documents show that the #insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of #therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. #News #Health #Healthcare #Law
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the med...
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care. — U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal #law, the #military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life. #News #Abortion #Health #Government #Healthcare #Insurance
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only ...
She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the #Border. The #Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why. — U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in #family separation cases that relate to national #security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian. #News #Immigration #Immigrants #Biden #Asylum
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The Biden Administration Is Separating Families at the Border. It Doesn’t Always Say Why.
U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separate...
The #FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly — Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued a string of recalls for flawed pills, including more than 40 million it said could be deadly. But the FDA still hasn’t sent inspectors to investigate the factory in #India that made them. #News #Health #Recall #Healthcare #Government #Regulation
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The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued seven recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly, records show. All were made at the same factory in India. ...