Chris Hamby
Investigative Reporter at The New York Times
Investigative reporter @NYTimes. Author of Soul Full of Coal Dust, in stores and online now: https://t.co/BQffThH14M. D.C. resident. Nashville native.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
myheraldreview.com | Chris Hamby
Weeks after undergoing heart surgery, Gail Lawson found herself back in an operating room. Her incision wasn’t healing, and an infection was spreading. At a hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Dr. Sidney Rabinowitz performed an hourslong procedure to repair tissue and close the wound. While recuperating, Lawson phoned the doctor’s office in a panic. He returned the call himself and squeezed her in for an appointment the next day.
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Oct 29, 2024 |
myheraldreview.com | Chris Hamby
Health insurers have made an enticing pitch to local governments across the country: When your workers see doctors outside your health plan’s network, costs can balloon, but we offer a program to protect against outrageous bills. Cities, counties and school districts have signed up, hoping to control the costs of their medical benefits. kAm%96? 4@>6 E96 766D]k^AmkAmx? $96=3J r@F?EJ[ %6??6DD66[ E96 :?DFC6C’D 492C86D 7@C 25>:?:DE6C:?8 E96 AC@8C2> 4=:>365 =2DE J62C E@ S`]b >:==:@? — >@C6 E92?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Chris Hamby
Health insurers have made an enticing pitch to local governments across the country: When your workers see doctors outside your health plan's network, costs can balloon, but we offer a program to protect against outrageous bills. Cities, counties and school districts have signed up, hoping to control the costs of their medical benefits.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Chris Hamby
Lawmakers on Tuesday called on health insurance regulators to detail their efforts against "troubling practices" that have raised costs for patients and employers. In a letter to a top Labor Department official, two congressmen cited a New York Times investigation of MultiPlan, a data firm that works with insurance companies to recommend payments for medical care.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
pressdemocrat.com | Matt Stevens |Chris Hamby
Actor Matthew Perry, who had long struggled with addiction, grew intrigued by ketamine a few years ago during a stay at a rehab facility in Switzerland where he received daily infusions of the powerful anesthetic "to ease pain and help with depression." "Has my name written all over it - they might as well have called it 'Matty,'" he later wrote of ketamine, which is known for its dissociative properties, in his 2022 memoir, "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing." It felt, he said,...
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To understand the at-home ketamine boom, I spoke with 40+ patients. Many called the drug profoundly helpful, but some described addiction and bladder problems -- known risks of recreational use that have been largely downplayed in the medical community. https://t.co/E4Nfr1NAZ7
Pandemic-era telemedicine rule changes have made it much easier to take the mind-altering drug ketamine at home. Many mental health patients have benefited, but the industry's rapid growth has outpaced evidence of safety. https://t.co/E4Nfr1NAZ7
RT @deanemurphy: Primed by glowing media coverage and aggressive advertising, many patients regard ketamine and its newfound at-home availa…