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This week's letters include a plea to continue Medicaid funding; thoughts on antisemitism and mental illness; local ...

Aetna authorizes claim for PoNS Device at out-of-network negotiated price of $18,350, becoming the third payer to join Anthem and United in providin ...

Healthbeat reports HHS is closing five regional offices, risking public health support and services like Head Start amidst ...

According to KFF, last year, 82 percent of U.S. women of reproductive age reported having used contraception in the previous 12 months.

James Madison warned that “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether ...

The Department of Justice announced a $3.6 million settlement Tuesday in a False Claims Act case against three nursing homes.

In his first major speech since leaving the White House, former President Joe Biden decried DOGE’s cuts to federal agencies ...

You can opt to keep employer-provided health insurance and delay applying for Medicare without being penalized, but you have ...

Health insurance companies are responding to consumer demand for a different system by investing in new technology and ...

Nineteen rural Nebraska hospitals announced that they have formed a new network that organizers say will allow them to work ...