Maine requires its hospitals to provide medically necessary care to its residents at no charge as a condition of receiving tax-exempt status, but not all eligible patients apply. Mainers with income up to 150% of the federal poverty level can apply for charity-care funds, but documentation requirements can be tricky for non-English speakers, gig workers and those without reliable internet access. Kate Ende, policy director at Consumers for Affordable Healthcare, said the funds exist so Mainers can get the health care they need. .
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, bringing the spotlight to the country s deadliest form of cancer. There will be an estimated 130,000 lung cancer deaths in 2022, including nearly 2,000 in Minnesota, according to the American Cancer Society. Michael Skokan, a pulmonary critical-care physician at The Oregon Clinic, said many of these deaths are preventable and the first action people can take is to stop smoking. .
Opening statements start today in a case pitting "Big Pharma" against Community Health Centers serving low-income and uninsured patients. At issue is a government drug discount program known as 340B, which requires drugmakers to sell certain medications at lower prices to health centers and hospitals. Three drugmakers; AstraZeneca, Sanofi, and Novo Nordisk; are suing the federal government for the right to restrict rebates to drugs dispensed at health centers, rather than pharmacies closer to patients homes. .
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, bringing the spotlight to the country's deadliest form of cancer. There will be an estimated 130,000 lung cancer deaths in 2022
By Shelby Harris for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for North Carolina News Service Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Two summers ago, Lee Berger sat in her Macon County, N.C., home hunched over a laptop - pulling the small computer closer to her face. It was Berger s first telehealth appointment, a routine check-up with her primary care physician, and she couldn t hear what the doctor was saying. Berger thought about telling the doctor to speak up, but then she remembered her house, fastened at the end of a 17-house subdivision in the small town of Franklin, doesn t often invite steady internet connection. .