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How homes for quadriplegics lost out on a raise after Californians passed Prop. 35
1 week, 6 days ago

How homes for quadriplegics lost out on a raise after Californians passed Prop. 35

LA Times  

Karen O’Laughlin with her son Trevor Hillegas at Laramie House, a congregate living facility. “We haven’t had a raise in 40 years,” said Sian Welch, chief executive and administrator of New Start CLHFs Independent Training Centers, which operates three facilities including Laramie House. For many people with complex needs, she said, facilities like Laramie House “are the last line of …

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Putting patients at the centre of Tamil Nadu’s mental health landscape
2 months, 1 week ago

Putting patients at the centre of Tamil Nadu’s mental health landscape

The Hindu  

In October, two internal official communiqués on improving the 230-year-old Institute of Mental Health in Chennai unexpectedly set the cat among the pigeons. “We have a system in place to trace and reunite patients with their families.” Tamil Nadu has facilitated easy access to mental healthcare services in the districts through the District Mental Health Programme. “Tamil Nadu offers extensive …

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An L.A. rehab center helped her get clean. Days after it closed, she was dead
5 months ago

An L.A. rehab center helped her get clean. Days after it closed, she was dead

LA Times  

Jasmine Richardson had been struggling with methamphetamine and fentanyl addiction for more than a decade, but she got sober after completing a six-month program at the Teen Project’s Freehab center on Sunland Boulevard in Sun Valley. “I believe that if the place hadn’t closed,” Dooley said, “she’d still be alive today.” More than six months after the closure, questions about …

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Long, frustrating waits for home care persist despite California expanding program
5 months, 1 week ago

Long, frustrating waits for home care persist despite California expanding program

LA Times  

Lyla Abuebaid needs to check on her 5-year-old son through the night to make sure he keeps breathing. Some could end up in nursing facilities “because there just aren’t alternatives.” Disability rights advocates had warned the state last year that the planned increase in slots would not clear the existing wait list for years, let alone reach more Californians who …

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In California, opioid settlement money helps fund lifesaving drugs and police projects
5 months, 4 weeks ago

In California, opioid settlement money helps fund lifesaving drugs and police projects

LA Times  

Sonja Verdugo distributes naloxone, clean needles and other products aimed at reducing risk among those living in homeless encampments around Los Angeles. In California, local governments must report how they spend settlement funds to the state’s Department of Health Care Services, but there’s no requirement that the reports be made public. The opioid settlement money “was invaluable,” Corina Hahn, the …

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California pays meth users up to $599 a year to get sober
7 months, 3 weeks ago

California pays meth users up to $599 a year to get sober

LA Times  

Quinn Coburn, a longtime meth user, has been sober for months, an accomplishment he attributes to a new California program that pays people to stay clean. “The way stimulants work on the brain is different than how opiates or alcohol work on the brain,” said John Duff, lead program director at Common Goals, an outpatient drug and alcohol counseling center …

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Californians who need help paying for ’round-the-clock home care are stuck on a state waitlist
1 year, 2 months ago

Californians who need help paying for ’round-the-clock home care are stuck on a state waitlist

LA Times  

Caitlin Martin kisses her son Connor in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. If she has to pay out of pocket for nursing care, “there’s no way I can afford it.” Private insurance does not typically cover anywhere near the amount of nursing care that someone may need at home, advocates said. “In my nursing …

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Medi-Cal will soon end some people’s benefits. What this means for you
1 year, 9 months ago

Medi-Cal will soon end some people’s benefits. What this means for you

LA Times  

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest, low-income Californians who enrolled in Medi-Cal — California’s version of the government-funded Medicaid health insurance program — have been able to keep their coverage without having to prove every year that they still qualified for it. In Texas, for example, the income limit for pregnant women is about twice the federal poverty level; …

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The patients with treatable eating disorders dying before NHS can help them
1 year, 11 months ago

The patients with treatable eating disorders dying before NHS can help them

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. email [email protected] Dr Agnes Ayton, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ lead for adult eating disorders, …

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Budget 2023: Why last full budget of Narendra Modi govt should focus on health sector
1 year, 11 months ago

Budget 2023: Why last full budget of Narendra Modi govt should focus on health sector

Firstpost  

Since next year, 2024, the country will hold general elections, it would be a vote-on-account. It must include allocations for public hospitals, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and digital health, including R&D and capacity building for healthcare at all levels. The providers from these smaller towns should be able to deliver healthcare, and government must ‘ONLY’ give local providers viability gap funding and …

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Clinical Establishments Providing Health Care Services Are Exempted From Service Tax: CESTAT
1 year, 11 months ago

Clinical Establishments Providing Health Care Services Are Exempted From Service Tax: CESTAT

Live Law  

The Delhi Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has observed that clinical establishments providing health care services are exempt from service tax.The two-member bench headed by Justice Dilip Gupta and P.V. Subba Rao has observed that healthcare services are provided by clinical establishments by engaging consultant doctors. The Delhi Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service …

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California programs are waiting weeks for free Narcan to prevent overdose deaths
2 years, 1 month ago

California programs are waiting weeks for free Narcan to prevent overdose deaths

LA Times  

Spider Davila, from L.A. Community Health Project, talks about how to use Narcan at an event marking International Overdose Awareness Day outside Los Angeles City Hall in August. Among them, California “is one of the states that’s on the forefront of naloxone access,” said Amy Judd Lieberman, senior attorney with the Harm Reduction Legal Project at the Network for Public …

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Tax Cases Monthly Round-Up: July 2022
2 years, 5 months ago

Tax Cases Monthly Round-Up: July 2022

Live Law  

Indirect Tax Supreme Court Case Title: Commissioner of Customs And Central Excise, Amritsar v. M/s. Madras High Court Case Title: M/s.Anantham Retail Private Limited Versus State Tax Officer Citation: 2022 LiveLaw 283 While quashing the assessment order, the Madras High Court held that a demand for GST, interest, and penalty on Form DRC-01A cannot be made without the issuance of …

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Occupation Health Check-Up Service By The Hospital Are Health Care Services, No GST Payable: AAAR
2 years, 7 months ago

Occupation Health Check-Up Service By The Hospital Are Health Care Services, No GST Payable: AAAR

Live Law  

The Gujarat Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling consisting of Seema Arora and Milind Torawane has ruled that no GST is payable on the occupational health check-up service by the hospital as it was covered under health care services. Yet another issue raised was whether the supply of Occupational Health Check-up services by the hospital to their employees and also the …

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Health Care Services Provided By Doctors Covered Under Consumer Protection Act 2019 : SC
2 years, 8 months ago

Health Care Services Provided By Doctors Covered Under Consumer Protection Act 2019 : SC

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with a Bombay High Court judgment which held that doctors and healthcare services are not excluded from the ambit of the Consumer Protection Act 2019. A division bench of the High Court had observed that "the mere repeal of the 1986 Act by the 2019 Act, without anything more, would not result …

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‘Somebody is gonna die’: Omicron hobbles California’s new Medicaid prescription system
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Somebody is gonna die’: Omicron hobbles California’s new Medicaid prescription system

LA Times  

Pandemic-related problems have complicated the rollout of California’s new system for helping Medicaid patients with prescription drugs. On Jan. 1, the state handed control of its Medicaid drug program, known as Medi-Cal Rx, to Magellan Health, which is administering prescription drug coverage for California’s 14 million Medicaid patients, most of whom previously got their medications from about two dozen managed-care …

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In California, layers of subcontracted services frustrate Medi-Cal patients
3 years ago

In California, layers of subcontracted services frustrate Medi-Cal patients

LA Times  

Jonatan Gutierrez, 32, right, works from home July 2 as his mom, Rocio Urzua, relaxes at their home in Santa Ana. She is enrolled in L.A. Care, one of two managed-care Medi-Cal health plans in Los Angeles County and the largest one in the state, with 2.4 million members. L.A. Care and many of the other 24 Medi-Cal managed-care plans …

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California’s reboot of troubled Medi-Cal puts pressure on health plans to perform
3 years, 3 months ago

California’s reboot of troubled Medi-Cal puts pressure on health plans to perform

LA Times  

Denise Williams, of Adelanto, says the Inland Empire Health Plan, a county-run Medi-Cal managed-care insurer that covers her son, Markeano, does not coordinate effectively with his doctors or with another state agency that provides some of his care. “The state has had a lot of difficulty — because of skill and will — in managing and enforcing the terms of …

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