Nevada will receive $5.7 million in unspent funds for federal health care for low-income children, but the state’s entire congressional delegation urged House and Senate leaders Friday to quickly reauthorize the program that expired two months ago.
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The County Commission on Tuesday will consider joining states, cities and counties across the U.S. suing manufacturers and distributors of painkillers in an effort to recoup some of the expenses they have borne.
UNLV’s School of Medicine received a $234,443 state public safety grant to examine traffic-related injuries and deaths in Nevada, university officials said Wednesday.
Pfizer’s big-selling erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has been given a green light for sale without a prescription in Britain, the first country to grant it over-the-counter status.
The open enrollment period for Medicare recipients to switch or enroll in a new prescription drug plan or change their coverage from traditional Medicare to a privately run Medicare Advantage plan and vice versa ends Dec. 7.
Nevada’s congressional delegation fired off a letter Wednesday urging the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to send $11.3 million in unused funds to the state keep a health program for low-income children until early next year.
Sign-ups increase 40 percent over same period last year, calming fears among state officials that confusion over the future of the Affordable Care Act would cause them to tank.
The state has requested $11.3 million in federal funding to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than 27,500 Nevada kids, while Congress decides if it will renew funding for the decades-old program.
One patient got a $3,606 bill for a four-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from a hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she’d been taken by ambulance without her consent.
As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.