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The Minnesota Nurses Association voted against accepting Allina Health's contract proposal. About 4,800 nurses have been on strike for a month at five Allina hospitals in Minnesota.
The Associated Press reports on such lifesaving programs that could help identify dangerous ingredients that can increase overdose risks, like in the case of Prince. In other news on the opioid epidemic, the Columbus, Ohio, area continues to see overdose cases.
The model program will start in January in 11 states. Also in the news, Medicare is moving to make it easier for kidney patients to undergo dialysis at home, and a new study suggests some beneficiaries delay use of chemotherapy drugs because of the cost.
Regulators say the facility's staff knew of the man's suicidal tendencies and failed to act to prevent them. In other news, a wealthy nursing home operator is being held in jail over allegations that he orchestrated an unprecedented $1 billion Medicaid and Medicare kickback scheme. And KHN looks at a controversial therapy technique for Alzheimer's patients.
A new study finds that on certain topics — like abortion, marijuana use and gun control — physicians' political views influence how they treat their patients.
State lawmakers cut $350 million from the Medicaid budget for children’s therapy services, and state officials are having trouble finding care providers who will accept the lower reimbursement rates. News outlets also report on Medicaid developments in Kansas, Louisiana and Arizona.
The agreement settles an investigation into four Tenet hospitals over alleged payments to a prenatal clinic operator for obstetric referrals of low-income patients in Georgia and South Carolina. The Tenet hospitals were charged with defrauding Medicaid for the deliveries.
Health officials unveil the plan for distributing the $1.1 billion Congress approved last week after months of political stalemate. The delay hurt efforts to combat the virus, an Obama administration official says.
Committee leaders have asked for documents including all of those related to EpiPen sales, profits, costs, manufacturing and distribution of the product; to the CEO's preparation for the committee hearing; documents about Mylan’s tax rates since 2007; and more.
The Obama administration is actively targeting young adults who have not enrolled in the exchanges in the numbers needed to balance out the costlier older population. Meanwhile, the president talks about his signature law's "real problems," but says they're fixable with help from Congress.
Insurers hate the public option that Hillary Clinton has been touting on the campaign trail.
"The biggest barrier we have to people getting help is the stigma of getting help," says Zach Iscol, a Marine veteran and executive director of the nonprofit Headstrong Project. "It just shows a complete misunderstanding of what post-traumatic stress disorder is."
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
News outlets offer perspectives on pending ballot questions.
Opinion writers express varying thoughts on the health law's implementation.
Outlets report on health news from California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Iowa and Michigan.
In other health IT news, a California medical center is using a federal grant to implement a telehealth program to manage patient care. And the medical data of about 5,000 patients in California may have been lost due to a technical glitch.
Officials say 25 cases of bacterial infection have been linked to a dental clinic in Orange County, Calif., after the children received baby root canals.
Brain games do help users get better at a certain task, but they show no real benefit in overall cognitive improvement. In other public health news, millions of Americans are struggling with treatment-resistant depression and a MacArthur genius's work with microbes could lead to a better understanding of diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
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