Health Insurers’ Lucrative Alliance That Drives Up Patient Bills: 5 Takeaways
A private-equity-backed firm has helped drive down payments to medical providers, drive up patients’ bills and earn billions for insurers.
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Insurance Companies Reap Hidden Fees as Patients Get Unexpected Bills
A little-known data firm helps health insurers make more when less of an out-of-network claim gets paid. Patients can be on the hook for the difference.
Sickened by U.S. Nuclear Program, Communities Turn to Congress for Aid
In St. Louis and around the country, people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law enacted to help such victims.
Prestigious Medical Journal Ignored Nazi Atrocities, Historians Find
The New England Journal of Medicine published an article condemning its own record during World War II.
Teen Drug Use Habits Are Changing, For The Good. With Caveats.
Dr. Nora Volkow, who leads the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, would like the public to know things are getting better. Mostly.
Anaesthetist jailed for stealing drugs for chemsex
Jonathon Dean stole drugs to inject a woman “for high risk sexual kicks”, a court heard.
Is Bird Flu Coming to People Next? Are We Ready?
Unlike the coronavirus, the H5N1 virus has been studied for years. Vaccines and treatments are available should they ever become necessary.
Senior doctors end pay dispute with government
Union members vote for offer, which sees pay rise of nearly 20% in 2023-24 for some.
New cause of asthma damage revealed
Cells lining the airways are squeezed to destruction, setting up a cycle of harm, lab studies suggest.
Eyeglasses Improve Income as Well as Sight, Study Shows
A study found that when farsighted workers in Bangladesh were given free reading glasses, they earned 33 percent more than those who had not.
Judge Orders Timely Housing for Migrant Children Waiting at Border
The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in legal custody of the Department of Homeland Security and thus must receive safe shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed.
NHS cannot meet autism or ADHD demand, report says
A radical rethink of how neurodiversity is treated is needed for the NHS to keep up, a think tank warns.
A.L.S. Drug Relyvrio Will Be Taken Off the Market, Its Maker Says
Results of a large clinical trial found the treatment did not work any better than a placebo.
‘I thought my eye would fall out of my head’
Farid Oladapo says he was “sent on his way” when trying to get his eye issues diagnosed.
Thousands of people to trial Alzheimer’s blood tests
The long-term hope is that more people will be able to access new treatments at an earlier stage.
Pig kidney transplant patient leaves hospital
The procedure was hailed as a historic step as doctors tackle a widespread organ donor shortage.
An Ozempic Relative Slowed Parkinson’s Disease in a Small Study
The trial lasted only one year but offered embers of hope to some experts.
Patient With Transplanted Pig Kidney Leaves Hospital for Home
Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged, doctors said.
For Red State Holdouts Like Kansas, Is Expanding Medicaid Within Reach?
As Southern states reconsider Medicaid expansion, Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas is pushing her own plan meant to appeal to conservatives. So far, success has been elusive.
One in five waiting for hospital care – survey
A new poll by the Office for National Statistics suggests waits in England are worse than feared.
She’s Shaking Up Classical Music While Confronting Illness
The pianist Alice Sara Ott, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week, is upending concert culture — and defying stereotypes about multiple sclerosis.