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Medicaid cuts may cripple Minnesota community health clinics

At Southside Community Health Services on East Lake Street, sunlight fills a bright, spacious lobby. The south Minneapolis clinic has served its community for over 50 years, providing care to thousands of patients, many with limited access to affordable healthcare. But behind the welcoming waiting room, staff are preparing for...

Minnesota · 17d
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‘I’m Sticking to My Sobriety’: Minnesota’s Karen Teens Navigate Two Cultures and an Opioid Crisis

This story was produced collaboratively by MindSite News and by MinnPost, an independent newsroom covering Minnesota. Sign up for MinnPost newsletters here. It’s a warm Wednesday afternoon in September, and teens and their young-adult mentors are filing into The Urban Village, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based nonprofit that supports young people in the city’s Karen and Karenni refugee communities. Everyone is animated, greeting each other excitedly at this first weekly meeting of the new school year.

St Paul, MN · 18d
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Fairview Health Services stops scheduling UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage patients on January 1, while three other plans stay in network

Starting January 1, 2027, Fairview Health Services will no longer schedule patients who have UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans. Fairview says it will keep taking three other Medicare Advantage plans: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners and Medica. Medicare open enrollment, the only window to switch, runs through December 7. The Minneapolis-based system says about... The post Fairview Health Services stops scheduling UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage patients on January 1, while three other plans stay in network appeared first on The Financial Wire .

Minnesota · 20d

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Rice County Public Health urges vaccination as measles cases climb in Minnesota

Rice County has not reported a single case of measles, but Rice County Public Health officials said they are concerned an outbreak could arrive soon as cases rise across Minnesota. In a news release issued Oct. 15, the department said 25 measles cases have been identified since mid-September in Fillmore...

Rice County, MN · 19d
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'The affordability is not there at all': Rural Minnesota counties left with few Medicare options

The first day of Medicare open enrollment at RG Insurance went about as well as broker Nicole Converse expected. "Not great," she said. "One of the enrollment systems went down. We've had non-stop calls all day long, every minute. We've got a new voicemail, and we don't have enough people answering the phones, but we're getting through them."

Crow Wing County, MN · 24d

CBS Minnesota

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Claims clinic connecting Minnesota veterans with resources

Veterans have done their part to serve our country; now the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and community partners in Minnesota are working hard to serve them.

Falcon Heights, MN · 23d

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The Valley Today 6 a.m. News - October 16 - Part 3

Minnesota · 24d

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Peggy Flanagan’s Own Tribe Got $2.4M in Overpayments After DHS Found Payments Did Not Comply with Legal Requirements

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services made an additional $2.4 million in Medicaid overpayments to the White Earth Nation, of which Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is a member, under the Walz-Flanagan administration in 2019, as a state audit found that millions in additional payments to White Earth and Leech Lake that year were made after DHS determined the payment practice did not comply with state and federal legal requirements.

Minnesota · 26d

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Medicare coverage options changing. Here's what to know

It's news that's frustrating and confusing for 350,000 Minnesotans. Because of changes in federal funding, Medicare plans are being cut.

Minnesota · 27d

CBS News

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What to know about Medicare plan cuts

Minnesota · 27d

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Cities built their safety nets on federal money. Now it’s leaving all at once.

When major events unfold in the Twin Cities, a parallel version often plays out at the Hennepin County Medical Center. The sprawling facility in downtown Minneapolis spanning six city blocks is the area’s largest safety-net hospital and busiest provider of critical trauma care. HCMC is where measles outbreaks, COVID-19 surges, low-income patients and mass casualty events like last year’s Annunciation school shooting merge, said Jeremy Olson-Ehlert, a 13-year veteran nurse and member of the nurse’s union.

Minneapolis, MN · 10-09

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Fairview sues UnitedHealthcare over 2027 Medicare listings

Fairview Health Services is suing UnitedHealthcare over 2027 Medicare Advantage listings as open enrollment nears for many Minnesotans.

Minnesota · 10-07

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Allina hospice nurses reach tentative deal on first-ever union contract

The union representing dozens of Twin Cities Allina Health hospice nurses who went on strike last month says they reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday.

Twin Cities Metro, MN · 10-09

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Unionized hospice nurses and Allina Health reach tentative agreement following September strike

Hospice nurses unionized with SEIU Healthcare MN and Iowa have reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with Allina Health following a seven-day strike in September.

Minnesota · 10-08

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Metro hospice nurses to vote on open-ended strike, and more headlines

St Paul, MN · 10-07

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Minnesota family stuck without care after thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid coverage

ListenMinnesota family stuck without care after thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid coverage. In a sunny room at a Twin Cities-area assisted living home, a young woman leans down to squeeze her mother’s hand, as she sits in a wheelchair. The care facility has been the mother’s home for four...

Minnesota · 10-02

Community Reporter

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A Fresh Set of Eyes on Childhood Vaccinations in Minnesota

"There is also data to suggest that Minnesotans are more vaccine-shy than those I was used to. Per the Centers for Disease Control, the national vaccination coverage rate for the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine is 92%; this number is 91% for Kentucky but only 85.7% for Minnesota. The pattern holds for virtually every childhood vaccination. " The post A Fresh Set of Eyes on Childhood Vaccinations in Minnesota first appeared on Community Reporter .

Minnesota · 10-02

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Medical equipment providers take home care crisis to state lawmakers

On September 3, durable medical equipment (DME) providers and patient advocates gathered at Handi Medical Supply in Saint Paul to […] The post Medical equipment providers take home care crisis to state lawmakers appeared first on Access Press .

Minnesota · 10-01

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Minnesota Therapist Faces 13 Felony Charges After Prosecutors Say He Billed Medicaid for More Than 27,000 Psychotherapy Claims Never Provided

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A Minnesota therapist is accused of pulling in more than $2.25 million in Medicaid payments by billing for psychotherapy and behavioral health services that prosecutors say were never delivered. The case centers on Peter Jason Meilahn, 50, who was charged by warrant Monday in Ramsey County.

Ramsey County, MN · 09-29

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Hospice nurses, doctors take on Allina Health over pay, staffing in dueling strikes

More than 60 hospice nurses picketed outside Abbott Northwestern Hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 16, demanding overtime pay and holiday and weekend pay from Allina Health as bargaining talks stretched past the one-year mark. The hospice nurses’ seven-day strike overlapped with 150 unionized doctors’ historic four-day walkout. Following the...

Minneapolis, MN · 09-28