Cody Copeland
Accountability Reporter at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Holding power to account for @startelegram | Responsabilizando al poder | Escríbeme: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
star-telegram.com | Cody Copeland
Eight years ago, Melissa Dossey contracted sepsis. Doctors were never able to pinpoint the cause, but during treatment her extremities lost oxygen for so long that she had to have both hands and both feet amputated. As a quadruple amputee, Dossey, 42, continues to receive twice weekly physical therapy sessions and sees her primary care physician and specialists regularly.
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3 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Cody Copeland
As the family of a man who was killed in the Tarrant County jail last year approaches the anniversary of his death, the county’s bill for outside legal representation for the jailers involved continues to grow. Marine veteran Anthony Johnson Jr. was killed during an altercation with jailers on April 21, 2024.
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3 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Cody Copeland
The Tarrant Appraisal District is extending the deadline to protest property values for the second year in a row. Noah Alcala Bach [email protected] The median home price in Tarrant County may have risen slightly from last year, but pockets within the county did see prices drop. The Tarrant Appraisal District did not reappraise residential property on Jan.
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3 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Cody Copeland
People covered by several Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas healthcare plans no longer have access to over two dozen major North Texas hospitals as of April 1, 2025. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar USA TODAY NETWORK Negotiators from Texas’ biggest health insurer and a major North Texas hospital network failed to reach an agreement on a new contract by their April 1 deadline, affecting more than 10 million people statewide.
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3 weeks ago |
star-telegram.com | Cody Copeland
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is one of more than two dozen that could no longer be in-network for several Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas plans if the company doesn’t agree on a new contract with Southwestern Health Resources. Handout Texas Health Time is running out for Texas’ biggest health insurer to negotiate a new contract with a hospital network that includes over two dozen North Texas hospitals.
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Are you or is someone you know affected by the expiration of the contract between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Southwester Health Resources? If so, I want to hear from you. Send me an email: [email protected] https://t.co/rES5saSgDu
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