DERRY — Mission Zero, the state’s campaign to end the boarding of mental health patients in crisis in hospital emergency rooms, is gaining speed. At the front of that advance
By next May, mental health patients involuntarily boarding in hospital emergency rooms will be transferred to crisis care beds in hospitals within six hours, following an agreement Wednesday between New
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s largest insurance company, owes the state’s hospitals nearly $300 million in unpaid claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the New Hampshire Hospital Association. It said Anthem has not followed through on promises made in 2021 to improve its handling of claims.