Public Health

Stakeholders and lawmakers in these five states and cities recently proposed or signed into law changes to their health insurance programs, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.

Washington state lawmakers passed a law to implement a public option health insurance plan, according to NPR.

In a first for the nation, Maryland will allow its residents to sign up for health insurance when they file their taxes in 2020, according to American University Radio station WAMU 88.5.

Montana reauthorized its Medicaid program under new legislation that also adds work requirements to the program, according to The Lewiston Tribune.

All eight Colorado students who were injured in a school shooting May 7 have now been discharged, according to The Denver Post.

Hospitals in California may be strategically diverting ambulances to avoid treating low-income patients typically served by public hospitals, suggest the findings of a study cited by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

A history of substance use disorder is one of three factors likely to identify patients at higher risk for prescription opioid addiction, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Eight people were taken to Colorado hospitals after a school shooting in which nine people were shot, one fatally, according to The New York Times.

The Trump administration seeks cut opioid prescription fills by 33 percent in three years through better education and adherence to pain-management prescribing practices, according to a May 3 report from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The number of uninsured patients who were hospitalized or visited the emergency department declined after 2014, when many of the ACA's insurance provisions were implemented, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.