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Opinion | The Checkup with Dr. Wen: A Middle Ground on Masking in Healthcare Facilities

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Opinion | The Checkup with Dr. Wen: A Middle Ground on Masking in Healthcare Facilities

Comment on this storyComment You are reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter about coping with covid-19 and other public health challenges. Click here to receive the full newsletter in your inboxincluding answers to readers’ questions and a summary of new scientific research. Should hospitals and other healthcare settings maintain mask requirements, even if … Read more

Health Insurance Claim Denials Are On The Rise And Getting Weirder | Expert opinion

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Health Insurance Claim Denials Are On The Rise And Getting Weirder | Expert opinion

Millions of Americans in recent years have stumbled upon this experience: filing a claim for health insurance that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If insurers’ experience and explanation often seems arbitrary and absurd, this could be because companies seem increasingly willing to employ computer algorithms or people … Read more