Doctors Take On Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured Patients
More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in Americaās dental deserts.
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More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in Americaās dental deserts.
Colorado is ahead of the curve on policies to prevent medical debt, but the gap between the debt load in places inhabited primarily by people of color versus non-Hispanic white residents is greater than the national average.
Insurance agents say itās too easy to access consumer information on the Affordable Care Act federal marketplace. Policyholders can lose their doctors and access to prescriptions. Some end up owing back taxes.
A California law that takes effect this summer will grant minors on public insurance the ability to get mental health treatment without their parentsā consent, a privilege that their peers with private insurance have had for years. But the law has become a flashpoint in the stateās culture wars.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss their stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
As money flows to abortion rights initiatives in states, some donors focus on where anger over the "Dobbs" ruling could propel voter turnout and spur Democratic victories up and down the ballot, including in key Senate races and the White House.
After California passed the first law in the nation to limit the disavowed term āexcited delirium,ā bills in other states are being introduced to help end use of the diagnosis. But momentum is being met with resistance from law enforcement and first responder groups, who cite free speech.
High school students in Colorado are pushing for a change they say is necessary to combat fentanyl poisoning: ensuring students can't get in trouble for carrying the overdose reversal drug naloxone wherever they go, including at school.
More than a quarter century after an inmate helped start a hospice program in one of the nationās most notorious prisons, he is trying to spread the idea.
The expansion of Catholic hospitals nationwide leaves patients at the mercy of the churchās religious directives, which are often at odds with accepted medical standards.
Doctors, patients, and hospitals have railed for years about the prior authorization processes that health insurers use to decide whether theyāll pay for patientsā drugs or medical procedures. The Biden administration announced a crackdown in January, but some state lawmakers are looking to go further.
Resorting to crowdfunding to pay medical bills has become so routine, in some cases health professionals recommend it.
Cities are experimenting with new ways to meet the rapidly increasing demand for behavioral health crisis intervention, at a time when incidents of police shooting and killing people in mental health crisis have become painfully familiar.
Advocates say two bills under consideration could help migrant communities but that more needs to be done.
A response is ramping up to a potential spillover of the neurological disease to humans from deer, elk, and other animals.
A soon-to-be-finalized legal settlement would offer transgender women in Colorado prisons new housing options, including a pipeline to the Denver Womenās Correctional Facility. The change comes amid a growing number of lawsuits across the country aimed at improving health care access and safety for incarcerated trans people.
Politicians keep talking about fixing primary care shortages. But flawed national data leaves big holes in how to evaluate which policies are effective.
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