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Dr. Jay Iinuma admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. Instead, he relied on nurses employed by Aetna to review the medical records and feed him pertinent information. California regulators have also launched an investigation into the company's practices.
Planned Parenthood and its partners are set to roll out bills they argue would protect birth control coverage, expand access to abortion and make sex education more inclusive.
The Virginia House of Delegates voted to impose work requirements on the state’s existing Medicaid recipients, with exceptions for the elderly, children, pregnant women and others who are not deemed “able bodied" as part of a compromise to expand the program. The bill goes to the Senate next, which so far has not indicated if it would accept it. Meanwhile, Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich is also preparing to ask federal regulators for a work requirements waiver for the state's Medicaid program.
The Justice Department says the company wrongly retained more than $1 billion from the government. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald dismissed part of the case, but is allowing the department to move forward with the rest of it.
“Director [Mick] Mulvaney, tell me about the morality of a budget which supports tax breaks for billionaires, throws 32 million people off of the health insurance they have, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of fellow Americans,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget chief caused confusion when he hinted at the same hearing that he wouldn't vote for President Donald Trump's budget if he were in Congress.
The health law imposes a penalty on employers with more than 50 workers who don’t provide qualifying coverage to employees, but the fines weren’t initially enforced. Meanwhile, Blue Cross of Idaho is taking the state up on its offer to sell coverage plans that don't meet all the health law's standards.
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Gov. Scott Walker's bill would authorize Wisconsin to seek a federal waiver to offer a reinsurance program to lower premium costs. Under the program, the government would provide money to health insurance providers to pay for between 50 percent and 80 percent of medical claims costing between $50,000 and $200,000.
The centers are designed to convince women not to have abortions. St. Juan Women’s Center Executive Director Christine Ibañez said that although her organization does not manipulate search results, she's heard that others have bought keywords from Google.
Two doctors examined 25 years of data and determined the risk of a fatal crash on American roads is 12 percent higher after 4:20 p.m. on April 20, the day set aside to celebrate marijuana. The numbers are comparable to the increased risk seen on Super Bowl Sunday, and the younger the driver, the greater the risk. Also, a Massachusetts top safety official warns that a licensing plan for marijuana is likely to create a surge of stoned drivers.
This flu season has been vicious, leading to a high rate of deaths and hospitalizations. Second-grade teacher Heather Holland, of Texas, was one of those patients.
Drugs tend to go in cycles, and although meth may seem like a thing of the past, it turns out it was only on hiatus. In other public health news: antibiotics, ovarian cancer, fertility, autism, high blood sugar and memory, the science of love, and more.
Deep brain stimulation has shown some success in countering addiction, but implementing it requires a dangerous surgery. In other news on the nation's drug crisis: the financial toll; police involvement in needle exchanges; opioid-makers' donations to patient advocacy groups; and more.
The retail giant now wants to become a go-to place for hospitals to procure medical supplies. Amazon says it is seeking to sell hospitals on a “marketplace concept” that differs from typical hospital purchasing, which is now conducted through contracts with distributors and manufacturers.
Truvada is the closest thing there is to an AIDS vaccine -- several studies have shown that users who take the drug daily are at nearly zero risk of HIV infection. But lifetime disability providers see it as a red flag.
To date, five states — Maine, Arizona, Utah, Wisconsin and Kansas — have applied for waivers to put a cap on how long Medicaid beneficiaries can receive health benefits. Critics of lifetime limits say they would fundamentally shift Medicaid from a health care safety net program for the poor and sick to a welfare program.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed the financial history of Robert Weaver, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Indian Health Services, and found that he has filed for personal bankruptcy and has liens against one of his businesses. Elsewhere in the administration, documents show that HHS worked with a conservative group to find ways to defund Planned Parenthood.
"The president's budget makes investments and reforms that are vital to making our health and human services programs work for Americans and to sustaining them for future generations," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.
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