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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Among new patients, 58.9%

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. The West Virginia Legislature passed bills in both 2019 and 2023 requiring insurers to respond to nonurgent authorization requests within five days and more urgent requests within two days, among other mandates.