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Watch: Their Baby Died. The Medical Bills Haunted Them.
Born with a congenital heart defect and other medical issues, Sterling Raspe lived just eight months. In that time, she needed…
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’…
Dr. Steven-Huy Han, a UCLA liver specialist, has prescribed Ocaliva to a handful of patients, although he’s not sure it…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: On Government Spending, Congress Decides Not to…
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Centene Agrees to Pay Massachusetts $14 Million Over Medicaid Prescription…
Massachusetts has become the latest state to settle with health insurance giant Centene Corp. over allegations that it…
Readers and Tweeters Take a Close Look at Eye Care and White Mulberry Leaf
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Turned Away From Urgent Care — And Toward a Big ER Bill
Frankie Cook remembers last year’s car crash only in flashes.
She was driving a friend home from high school on a…
$2,700 Ambulance Bill Pulled Back From Collections
Bram Sable-Smith
Peggy Dula is as surprised as she is relieved. The 55-year-old resident of St. Charles, Illinois, had been…
Montana Health Officials Aim to Boost Oversight of Nonprofit Hospitals’…
Montana health officials are proposing to oversee and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit…
Few Places Have More Medical Debt Than Dallas-Fort Worth, but Hospitals…
Noam N. Levey
PROSPER, Texas — Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles’ football season was…
‘American Diagnosis’: When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care…
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