Arielle Zionts
South Dakota Rural Health Reporter at KFF Health News
Rural Health Reporter for @KFFHealthNews based in South Dakota. Eyes on entire country. Past: @SDPBNews @RCJournal @nogalesnews.
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4 weeks ago |
medscape.com | Bram Sable-Smith |Arielle Zionts
More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona. So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots. Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota, and Washington, among other places. Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in COVID-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.
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1 month ago |
ocregister.com | Arielle Zionts
By Arielle Zionts, KFF Health NewsRural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to maintain services and protect patients is to end their contracts with the private insurers. Medicare Advantage plans pay hospitals lower rates than traditional Medicare, said Jason Merkley, CEO of Brookings Health System in South Dakota.
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1 month ago |
kffhealthnews.org | Arielle Zionts
Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some say the only way to maintain services and protect patients is to end their contracts with the private insurers. Medicare is the main federal health insurance program for people 65 or older. Participants can enroll in traditional, government-run Medicare or in a Medicare Advantage plan run by a private insurance company.
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1 month ago |
kffhealthnews.org | Bram Sable-Smith |Arielle Zionts |Jackie Fortier
Más de una docena de clínicas de vacunación se cancelaron en el condado de Pima, en Arizona. También una campaña en medios para que los niños de bajos recursos del condado de Washoe, en Nevada, se pusieran al día con sus vacunas. Otras clínicas planificadas se cancelaran en Texas, Minnesota y Washington, entre otros lugares.
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1 month ago |
gazettextra.com | Bram Sable-Smith |Arielle Zionts |Jackie Fortier
More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona. So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots.
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