Utah will kick off the new year with a fully expanded Medicaid program, covering residents earning up to 138% of the poverty level, up from the current 100% cutoff for the state’s limited expansion. But it will require some adult participants to work or look for work, the Utah Health Department said.
In a year drug pricing advocates had pegged for breakthroughs, neither elected lawmakers nor the Trump administration enacted significant policies that will lower consumer drug spending.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has filed a petition in Lawrence County to force Florida-based Americore Health, which owns Ellwood City Medical Center, to pay the wages, unemployment taxes and pension contributions owed to the 150 or so workers at the Lawrence County facility.
Alexa Kasdan had a cold and a sore throat. The 40-year-old public policy consultant from Brooklyn, N.Y., didn't want her upcoming vacation trip ruined by strep throat. So after it had lingered for more than a week, she decided to get it checked out.
Facing financial pressure and increasing capital needs, the Brooklyn Hospital Center wants to redevelop its downtown Brooklyn campus and sell large parcels of its site to finance the project.
The Texas-based owner of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham paid no federal income tax in 2018, according to a report Monday by the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy.