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State health officials want to add more facilities for discharged state hospital patients who need support reentering their community.
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Montana lawmakers advanced proposals to restrict health care and bathroom access for transgender residents.
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Bills that would continue and end the state’s Medicaid expansion program are moving through the Legislature. More than a third of Fort Peck tribal members are enrolled in the program.
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Montana will sign onto a proposed national settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, for their role in sparking the opioid crisis.
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Up to 75,000 Montanans will lose health care coverage if lawmakers don’t renew Medicaid expansion. There are competing visions to make the program permanent and some who want to end it.
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Montana lawmakers will decide in the coming months what happens to health coverage for tens of thousands of people.
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The state will soon offer a new drug treatment program and housing assistance through Medicaid.
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Medical debt will no longer impact your credit score. The Biden administration Tuesday finalized rules that will remove the debt from credit reports.
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Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled.
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Much of the country continues to see big declines in drug overdose deaths, but deaths in Montana were virtually unchanged.