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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Health Care Blog

Mental health services are not easily obtainable, there is an increasing number of clients seeking providers that are already treating a greater-than-maximum capacity of patients. My primary care provider won’t start me on medication because I may want to try to become pregnant again. I can’t make any appointments.

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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

The House bill also limits insurers ability to change prior authorization decisions after the care is provided and prevents insurers from requiring prior approval for a particular service if the provider was approved for that same service 80 percent of the time in the last year. How would these changes affect consumer costs?

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Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. While state funding for the centers was recently increased, federal funding has been decreasing, NC Health News has reported. They’re not a problem group, he said.

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#WNTD Blog: Tobacco and Mental Health - Untangling the relationship and identifying opportunities to progress policy

Institute of Public Health

The policy analysis outlined the current policy landscape in relation to smoking and mental ill health in the UK and Ireland. We used the READ approach * (Dalglish et al, 2020) to collate and compare relevant health policies at local and national level. Health Policy and Planning 35 (10) 1424–1431.

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Teachers, state employees voice frustration over State Health Plan

NC Health News

Others report paying more for everything from physical therapy to mental health services. Zachary said a variety of factors are likely driving up costs, but the large number of health care mergers and acquisitions in recent years has no doubt played a role.

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Hit Hard by Opioid Crisis, Black Patients Further Hurt by Barriers to Care

KFF Health News

In 2019, for instance, white people accounted for 88% of those served by the opioid use prevention and treatment services funded by a $54 million grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, North Carolina Health News reported. of those served by the state assistance. .”

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

Adequacy of Hospital Capacity a Pressing Concern During the 1970s, federal health policy in United States focused on controlling the supply of hospitals and hospital beds in the US, believing that efforts to fill empty beds were a major driver of health cost growth, then in double digits.At