A woman over the age of 50 is the second person in Clark County to contract West Nile virus this year, the Southern Nevada Health District said Thursday.
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Nevada’s Brian Sandoval is part of a bipartisan group of governors urging Congress to retain the federal health care law’s individual mandate while seeking to stabilize individual insurance markets as legislators continue work on a long-term replacement law.
A new study finds that children born to parents in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are half as likely to have mental health issues than children of undocumented immigrants.
Nevada’s Medicaid program, caught in the political crossfire over rising health-care costs, is far different than the limited federal-state health insurance partnership for the “deserving poor” that President Lyndon Johnson unveiled in 1965.
What medical researchers have found is nothing for Nevada to be proud of: There are about 251 physicians for every 100,000 people in the United States but Nevada doesn’t quite hit 200.
Nevada will get another $1.2 million in federal grants to fight the opioid epidemic.
Premiums for a popular type of individual health plan would rise sharply, and more people would be left with no insurance options if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to stop “Obamacare” payments to insurers, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will have a press conference at 11 a.m. today, where he’s expected to announce an insurance carrier to provide service in 14 rural counties on Nevada’s health insurance exchange.
The looming departure underscores the continued volatility of the insurance market amid uncertainty about how federal regulations may change health coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
The state’s expansion of Medicaid in 2014 gave hundreds of thousands of low-income and disabled Nevadans medical insurance, but it also plunged the state into the center of the battle over spiraling health-care costs.