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PublishedMarch 5, 2023
Foreign-trained health professionals could be part of the solution to a workforce shortage
The problem is physicians who have immigrated to Maine have a winding, expensive path to reclaiming positions they held elsewhere.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2023
With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals
A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2023
Owner of New England addiction clinics faces health care fraud charges
Recovery Connection Centers of America provided little or no services while billing Medicare and other insurers as if they had, authorities said.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2023
States move to crack down on nurses with bogus diplomas
States are acting in the wake of Operation Nightingale, a federal investigation into what officials say was a wire fraud scheme in which several now-closed Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts from 2016 to 2022.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2023
COVID-19 origins still a mystery 3 years into pandemic
Did COVID-19 originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab?
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2023
Millions who rely on Medicaid may be booted from program
As states begin checking eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2023
Children are ‘languishing’ in hospitals while waiting for mental health services, providers say
Children with mental and behavioral health needs end up 'languishing' in hospitals for months on end thanks to long waiting lists and administrative barriers to treatment.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2023
Bill to add substance use disorder as a cause of death sets ‘terrible precedent,’ medical examiner says
The bill would mandate listing substance use disorder as the cause of death when applicable, but Maine's chief medical examiner said it's a bad idea.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2023
Abortion pill could be pulled off market by Texas lawsuit
The FDA approved mifepristone – in combination with a second drug – in 2000 as a safe and effective method for ending a pregnancy.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2023
CVS spends $10.6 billion to buy Oak Street Health
The rapid expansion in value-based care is an approach to medicine that is growing popular with bill payers like Medicare.
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