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I write stories about health in Colorado & sometimes other places for @KFFHealthNews (formerly @KHNews). raeb@kff.org. DM me for Signal. Tweets = mine.

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More Schools Stock Overdose Reversal Meds, but Others Worry About Stigma - KFF Health News

More Schools Stock Overdose Reversal Meds, but Others Worry About Stigma - KFF Health News

Colorado is among several states that ensure schools have access to the opioid overdose reversal medication n…

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Students in Rural Colorado Are Left Without Options as Specialized Schools Close - KFF Health New...

Students in Rural Colorado Are Left Without Options as Specialized Schools Close - KFF Health New...

A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen…

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In Rural America, Deadly Costs of Opioids Outweigh the Dollars Tagged to Address Them - KFF Healt...

In Rural America, Deadly Costs of Opioids Outweigh the Dollars Tagged to Address Them - KFF Healt...

Some people say it's reasonable for densely populated areas to receive more settlement funds, since they serv…

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Baby, That Bill Is High: Private Equity 'Gambit' Squeezes Excessive ER Charges From Routine Birth...

Baby, That Bill Is High: Private Equity 'Gambit' Squeezes Excessive ER Charges From Routine Birth...

Hospitals, boosted by private equity-backed staffing companies, have embraced a new idea: the obstetrics emer…

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Helen Santoro, Author at KFF Health News

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By Helen Santoro Verified, Rae Ellen Bichell Verified, Oona Zenda
| KFF Health News Verified
The codes used by U.S. medical providers to bill insurers haven’t caught up to the needs of trans patients or even international standards. Consequently, doctors are forced to get creative with what codes they use, or patients spend hours fighting big out-of-pocket bills.
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ICE detainees describe medical neglect across US

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By Rae Ellen Bichell Verified, Claire Galofaro Verified, Maia Rosenfeld
| CALÓ News
Masuma Khan, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was held at an immigration detention facility in California City, California, for a month in 2025. (Jae C. Hong/AP) Hundreds of detainees across at least 33 states allege in federal suits that immigration detention facilities are failing to provide adequate medical care, an investigation by KFF Health News and The Associated Press found.
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From festering infections to untreated cancer, ICE detainees across the US describe medical neglect

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By Rae Ellen Bichell Verified, Claire Galofaro Verified, Maia Rosenfeld
| Texarkana Gazette Verified
An Albanian man's pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said his leg grew purple and swollen from flesh-eating bacteria when staffers at a Vermont facility did not bring him to a scheduled doctor's appointment.
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