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FDA Stirs Contraception Debate With OK For ‘Natural’ Birth Control App
Critics worry a new contraception app, which allows women to track body temperature and menstrual cycle to avoid pregnancy, isn’t as effective as other methods. But some women welcome another option.
Feds Urge States To Encourage Cheaper Health Plans Off Insurance Exchanges
The government suggests that insurers offer plans off the health law marketplaces that don’t have surcharges added last year to make up for a cut in federal funding.
Feds Urge States To Encourage Cheaper Plans Off The Exchanges
Many insurers added surcharges to policies they sold to individuals last year to make up for a cut in federal funding. Now, federal officials suggest that states encourage insurers to sell policies without those surcharges outside of the marketplace to help people who don’t get a premium subsidy.
For Many College Students, Hunger Can ‘Make It Hard To Focus In Class’
With rising college costs, up to half of college students’ finances are stretched so tight they report that they were either not getting enough to eat or were worried about it, studies find.
Hospitals Gear Up For New Diagnosis: Human Trafficking
Many people forced into labor or the sex trade seek medical help at some point, and health care workers are being trained to identify them and to offer assistance.
Hospitals Gear Up For New Diagnosis: Human Trafficking
Many people forced into labor or the sex trade seek medical help at some point, and health care workers are being trained to identify them to offer assistance.
Insurers And Government Are Slow To Cover Expensive CAR-T Cancer Therapy
Treatment costs for the immunotherapy can run to more than $1 million. Some state Medicaid programs aren’t paying for the treatment, and Medicare’s complicated payment rates have hospitals worried.
Staggering Prices Slow Insurers’ Coverage Of CAR-T Cancer Therapy
Some state Medicaid programs are not paying for the procedures, and Medicare’s complicated payment rates have hospitals concerned that it will not cover all the costs.
Has Genetic Privacy Been Strained By Trump’s Recent ACA Moves?
As the Trump administration decides not to defend the Affordable Care Act’s legal protections for people with pre-existing conditions, questions arise about health insurance and genetic information.
Can Insurers Use Genetic Testing Results? A Reader Wants To Know
Other readers ask what can be done to challenge unexpected medical bills — whether the result of an emergency room visit or after a change in prescription drug coverage.
