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States Have Yet to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Federal Dollars to Tackle COVID-19 Health Disparities

05/16/2022

State health departments have not used most of the COVID-19 funding granted by the federal government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021.

State health departments have...

05/16/2022

First Report Managed Care

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States Extend Medicaid for New Mothers, Even as They Reject Broader Expansion

06/17/2022

Sam Whitehead ;

Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers have opted to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to improve maternal health without pursuing full expansion.

Tennessee and Georgia lawmakers...

06/17/2022

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Boost Now or Wait? Many Wonder How Best to Ride Out Next COVID-19 Wave

07/19/2022

Sam Whitehead ;

Arthur Allen ;

Rapid mutations and distrust of the CDC and government officials have created challenges for fully immunizing the public.

Rapid mutations and distrust of...

07/19/2022

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New CDC Opioid Guidelines: Too Little, Too Late for Patients With Chronic Pain?

03/15/2023

Andy Miller ;

Sam Whitehead ;

Some advocates say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's opioid prescribing guidelines inadvertently prevented patients with chronic pain from receiving necessary prescriptions.

Some advocates say the Centers...

03/15/2023

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Artificial Intelligence May Influence Whether Patients Can Get Pain Medication

09/06/2023

Andy Miller ;

Sam Whitehead ;

To contain the opioid crisis, health and law enforcement agencies have turned to technology to monitor doctor and patient prescription data, but experts have raised questions about how these systems work and worry about their accuracy and...

To contain the opioid crisis,...

09/06/2023

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