Published by the Elizabethton Start, Contributed Content – June 14, 2023 Earlier this week Governor Billl Lee signed Senate Bill 781 into law at the Tennessee state capitol. Senator Rusty Crowe (R-Johnson City) and Representative John Holsclaw (R-Elizabethton) as well as area physicians were in attendance. Crowe carried the bill through the Senate in this…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Jennifer Shutt – June 14, 2023 WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would guarantee access to birth control regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings. The measure would ensure people have the right to use contraception and that health care providers have a right to…
Published by WJHL, Reporter Jeff Keeling – June 12, 2023 The hearings give the public an opportunity to comment on how Ballad is performing in the four main areas the merger was supposed to create improvements in: health care cost, quality and access, and the overall health of the population. Alvarado said the hearing was…
Published by the Tennessee Lookout, Reporter Anita Wadhwani – June 6, 2023 For more than a decade, Tennessee’s Medicaid program set a $50 cap on its payments to emergency room doctors treating low-income patients who show up at hospitals without experiencing a genuine medical emergency. The Tennessee Supreme Court has now ruled that TennCare failed…
Published by ABC News, Reporter Nadine El-Bawab – May 31, 2023 Hollis was eight weeks pregnant when she met with a maternal fetal medicine specialist, who confirmed that she had a cesarean scar pregnancy and sent her back to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for care. Vanderbilt University Medical Center said it would not comment on…
Published by KFF Health News, Reporter Aneri Pattani – May 15, 2023 Over the past two years, rural Greene County in northeastern Tennessee has collected more than $2.7 million from regional and national settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors. But instead of helping people harmed by addiction, county officials are finding other ways to spend…
Published by Tennessee Lookout: Reporter Anita Wadhwani – May 11, 2023 More than half of all rural Tennessee hospitals no longer deliver babies — a trend that shows no clear signs of reversal while pregnant patients outside major metropolitan areas routinely drive an hour, or more, in order to give birth. Just 28 of 52…