Employer plans are unsuitable for many Americans, survey finds

Hint: it isn’t big pharma

An umbrella review published in The BMJ provided a breakdown of the associations between cannabis and health outcomes, highlighting the uncertain potential for clinical use.Cannabis or products that contain THC “are widely available and have increasingly high tetrahydrocannabinol content,” Marco Solmi, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, in Canada,

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Legislators in states with some of the strictest abortion bans are pouring millions into pregnancy resource centers, painting them as solutions to poor birth outcomes and the lack of access to adequate prenatal and postpartum care. But while Republican lawmakers have increasingly positioned pregnancy resource centers as a backstop for maternal health care, critics say those taxpayer dollars should be used to shore up more comprehensive medical and social services.

The office is investigating Allina Health's debt collection practices and its now-suspended policy of denying non-emergency care to delinquent patients.

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It’s been more than two years since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared racism a public health threat, and a new study gives a stark look at just how pervasive racial and ethnic disparities are in the United States.

Last week, the CFO of Universal Health Services stated that the company chooses which patients to treat based on whose insurance plans offer the highest payments. The comments have sparked some media attention, but healthcare finance experts say the practice of cherry-picking patients is nothing new to the industry.