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Kaiser Permanente study first to show that these risk factors affect normal weight babies, making them more likely to become obese children

Acknowledging that most patients who navigate hospital emergency rooms don’t need to be at the hospital, Zoom+ has expanded its transparent and easy-access model from primary care clinics to a new facility focused on emergency needs that can be handled in an outpatient setting for a fixed price of $299.

Unlike Obamacare individual insurance plans, Medicare Part D drug plans have no cap on out-of-pocket costs, leaving seniors to skip pills or go for broke. The senators also renewed their call for Medicare to negotiate on drug prices. Meanwhile, Rep. Mitch Greenlick still hopes Oregon can take the initiative and relieve drug costs at the state level.

In the small universe that is health insurance, 2017 may turn out to be pretty nice for the men and women who predict how much insurers have to pay out in claims. “Actuaries across the country will be able to sleep better at night for 2017,” John Bertko, chief actuary for Covered California, said.

Every day, headlines detail the casualties of the nation’s surge in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse: the funerals, the broken families and the patients cycling in and out of treatment. Now, a new study sheds light on another repercussion