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“I don’t want to die”: Needing mental health care, he got trapped in his insurer’s ghost network

Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

Sep 10, 2024

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New Biden administration rules aim to hold insurers accountable for mental health care coverage

The regulations will force health insurance plans to collect and report more data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. ProPublica’s reporting has found that insurers regularly shortchange patients seeking treatment.

Sep 10, 2024

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New recovery housing facility set to open in Portland

4D Recovery facility will serve 40 people after they leave residential treatment centers

Sep 10, 2024

Kristin Holeso (left) wipes her tears at a memorial for her friend, Melissa Jubane, during a vigil Monday, Sept. 9, at Ridgewood View Park in Beaverton. Police say Jubane was killed by Bryce Johnathan Schubert, who lived at the same apartment complex. | PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP/JAIME VALDEZ (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Beaverton mourns Melissa Jubane

Jubane was reported missing after she did not show up for her nursing shift at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Her neighbor, 27-year-old Bryce Schubert, was arrested and charged with her murder after a two-day search.

Sep 10, 2024
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A group of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at a Walgreens in Vancouver, Washington voted Sept. 3, 2024, to become the first workplace in the Pacific Northwest to join The Pharmacy Guild, a union created specifically to represent pharmacy workers. | COURTESY/THE PHARMACY GUILD

Vancouver workers’ vote reflects new pharmacy union organizing

Workplace will be first in Pacific Northwest to join Pharmacy Guild, and organizers say they’re working on others in Oregon and Washington

Sep 10, 2024
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital resumes visitation, but most will be no-contact

Patients receiving a “hospital-level of care” will only be allowed visits with no physical contact

Sep 10, 2024

Drug manufacturers have become one of the biggest spenders on TV advertising in the U.S. | COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

The pharmaceutical industry has invented a new art form: finding ways to make their wares seem like joyous must-have treatments, while often minimizing lackluster efficacy and risks.

Sep 10, 2024

Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford in June, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Third fentanyl-swap lawsuit filed against Asante's hospital in Medford, demanding $116 million

New suit claims woman has long term medical needs due to harm from infection caused by swapping fentanyl with tapwater at Rogue Regional Medical Center

Sep 9, 2024
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New Oregon legal team tackles elder abuse in Medicaid

The new Department of Justice team has notched two criminal plea deals in the last three weeks, and has tackled seven caregiver cases since January 2023, focusing on mistreatment and neglect in Medicaid-funded care

Sep 5, 2024
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Patients suffer when Indian Health Service doesn’t pay for outside care

The Indian Health Service has a program that can pay for outside appointments when patients need care not offered at agency-funded sites. Critics say money shortages, complex rules, and administrative fumbles often block access, however.

Sep 5, 2024

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