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Unas personas llegan al Hospital Lurie Children para niños, el 5 de febrero de 2024, en Skokie, Illinois. (Foto AP/Nam Y. Huh, Archivo)

Expertos preven incremento de hackeos a hospitales en EEUU

WASHINGTON — Expertos en seguridad digital advirtieron que los hospitales en todo Estados Unidos están en riesgo de ataques como aquel que paralizó las operaciones en un hospital pediátrico de primera línea...
En esta imagen de archivo, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, habla sobre los planes de su gobierno para proteger la Seguridad Social y Medicare y rebajar los costos sanitarios, el 9 de febrero de 2023, en la Universidad de Tampa, en Tampa, Florida. (AP Foto/Patrick Semansky, archivo)

Biden anuncia de “dreamers” a planes de salud

WASHINGTON — El presidente Joe Biden anunció el jueves que cientos de miles de migrantes que fueron traídos a Estados Unidos sin autorización legal cuando eran menores ahora podrán contar con las...
El presidente Joe Biden habla sobre los costos de la atención médica y los medicamentos, el miércoles 15 de marzo de 2023, en la Universidad de Nevada, campus Las Vegas. (AP Foto/Evan Vucci)

Biden quiere reducir los costos de la atencion medica

LAS VEGAS — El presidente Joe Biden declaró el miércoles que su gobierno está “sumamente" centrado en disminuir los costos de la atención médica y arremetió contra los republicanos trumpistas, que según...
FILE - Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi on Tuesday became the latest state to require Medicaid to provide a full year of coverage for low-income mothers after giving birth. Days earlier, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves declared the policy was part of the state’s “new pro-life agenda.” (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Medicaid coverage for new moms gaining in GOP states

WASHINGTON — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new moms, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are now reversing course and trumpeting that coverage as central to...
FILE - A computer-run, modular device that customizes drug infusions for individual patient's is seen inside a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at a medical center May 8, 2020, in Seattle. Federal officials said Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, that they're working to cut down on a growing backlog of complaints lodged against health care providers, insurers or government agencies by patients who claim their civil rights or privacy have been violated. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Feds promise to trim backlog of health care investigations

WASHINGTON — Federal officials said Monday they're working to cut down on a growing backlog of complaints lodged against health care providers, insurers or government agencies by patients who claim their civil...
FILE - A physical therapist works with a patient at a field hospital operated by Care New England set up in a former bank call center to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I, Dec. 14, 2020. Roughly 84 million people are covered by Medicaid, the government-sponsored program that's grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now, as states begin checking everyone’s eligibility for Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access to that coverage. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Millions who rely on Medicaid may be booted from program

WASHINGTON — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year.Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program,...
ARCHIVO - Pastillas de OxyContin colocadas para una foto en una farmacia de Montpelier, Vermont, el 19 de febrero de 2013. (AP Foto/Toby Talbot, Archivo)

EEUU preve limitar prescripcion de farmacos a distancia

WASHINGTON — El gobierno del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden planea requerir que los pacientes acudan a un médico en persona antes de recibir medicación para el trastorno por déficit de atención o...
FILE - OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 19, 2013. The Biden istration is moving to require patients to see a doctor in person before getting drugs to treat attention deficit disorders or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the medications against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs

WASHINGTON — The Biden istration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop...
Part of the 988helpline.org website is photographed Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation's new 988 mental health helpline on Dec. 1, 20222, federal officials tell The Associated Press. Lawmakers are now calling for the federal agency that oversees the program to prevent future attacks. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Feds say cyberattack caused suicide helpline’s outage

WASHINGTON — A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation's new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials told The Associated Press Friday. Lawmakers are now calling for...
FILE - A nurse prepares for a COVID-19 test outside the Salt Lake County Health Department, Dec. 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City. The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests. Much of that is now coming to an end, with President Joe Biden's istration saying it plans to end the emergencies declared around the pandemic on May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

How will life change once the COVID-19 emergency ends?

WASHINGTON — The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access...
FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference at the HHS Humphrey Building, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. The Biden istration estimated Jan. 30, 2023, that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Feds expect to collect $4.7B in insurance fraud penalties

WASHINGTON — The Biden istration estimated Monday that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers' tab...
President Joe Biden talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, after returning from an event in Baltimore on infrastructure. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to...
FILE - Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Jan. 26, 2023. The move will provide more stability for inmates and juvenile detainees as they exit institutions and re-enter the outside world, said Brooks-LaSure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

California prison inmates to get some Medicaid care

WASHINGTON — The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
ARCHIVO - Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, a de servicios de Centros de Medicare y Medicaid, posa para la foto en su oficina, Washington, 9 de febrero de 2022. (AP Foto/Evan Vucci, File)

EEUU: Investigan abuso de antipsicoticos en asilos

WASHINGTON — El gobierno de Estados Unidos anunció que iniciará una campaña contra el abuso de medicamentos antipsicóticos y diagnósticos erróneos de esquizofrenia en los residentes de casas para ancianos.Los Centros de...
FILE - Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. The federal government is cracking down on nursing homes' abuse of antipsychotic drugs after an investigation in 2022 revealed an overwhelming majority of their residents are prescribed the medication. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will begin sending investigators to certain facilities in January 2023 to audit nursing homes' diagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Feds to investigate nursing home abuse of antipsychotics

WASHINGTON — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
988 Call Center Director Jamieson Brill poses for a photo in front of a desk where work workers take calls around the clock at a facility in Hyattsville, Md., Oct. 7, 2022. Brill works in one of more than 200 call centers fanned out around the country tasked with answering an uptick in calls around the clock from people considering suicide or experiencing a mental health emergency. (AP Photo/Amanda Seitz)

Cries for help pour into 988 mental health, suicide line

HYATTSVILLE, Md. — When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or “suicidio”Brill, whose...
Una vacuna contra la influenza es preparada en el L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center, el 28 de octubre de 2022, en Lynwood, California. (AP Foto/Mark J. Terrill, Archivo)

EEUU libera medicina de la reserva nacional por influenza

WASHINGTON — El gobierno del presidente Joe Biden anunció el miércoles que liberará dosis de medicamento antigripal de venta bajo receta de la Reserva Estratégica Nacional para su distribución a los estados,...
FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. The Biden istration announced it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctor's offices around the country.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

As flu rages, US releases medicine from national stockpile

WASHINGTON — The Biden istration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctors'...
FILE - New York Police Department officers wake up sleeping engers and direct them to the exits at the 207th Street station on the A train, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. In New York City's latest effort to address a mental health crisis on its streets and subways, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, that authorities would more aggressively intervene to help people in need of treatment, saying there was "a moral obligation" to do so, even if it means providing care to those who don't ask for it. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

National 988 mental health hotline back up after outage

WASHINGTON — The nation’s 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, was back up and running Friday after a daylong outage. The call service, which was launched in...
The healthcare.gov website is seen on Nov. 1, 2022 in Washington. Millions of Americans can begin selecting their 2023 health insurance plans on HealthCare.gov on Tuesday. Open enrollment begins, as the Biden istration pushes to keep the number of uninsured Americans at a record low. (AP Photo)

Boost in people seeking HealthCare.gov coverage, HHS says

WASHINGTON — The Biden istration announced Tuesday that it’s seeing a big uptick in the number of new customers buying private health insurance for 2023 from the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. Nearly...
FILE - Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, poses for a photograph in her office, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. With Medicare's open enrollment underway, health experts are warning older adults about an uptick in misleading marketing tactics that might lead some to sign up for Medicare Advantage plans that don't cover their doctors or prescriptions and drive up their out-of-pocket costs. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Medicare enrollees warned about deceptive marketing schemes

WASHINGTON — Mailers designed to look like official government forms. Buses sporting scam pitches for Medicare websites. TV commercials featuring celebrities who encourage people to sign up for Medicare plans that do...
The healthcare.gov website is seen on Nov. 1, 2022 in Washington. Millions of Americans can begin selecting their 2023 health insurance plans on HealthCare.gov on Tuesday. Open enrollment begins, as the Biden istration pushes to keep the number of uninsured Americans at a record low. (AP Photo)

EXPLAINER: How to navigate Affordable Care Act enrollment

NEW YORK — The vast majority of Americans will find multiple options for health insurance coverage for 2023 on HealthCare.gov after open enrollment began Tuesday under the Affordable Care Act.People searching for...
FILE - The healthcare.gov website is seen on Dec. 14, 2021, in Fort Washington, Md. Millions of Americans can begin selecting their private health insurance plans for 2023 when the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace opens on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, as the Biden istration pushes to keep the number of uninsured Americans at a record low. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Low costs expected to keep Obamacare interest high

WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans can begin selecting their 2023 health insurance plans on HealthCare.gov on Tuesday, as the Biden istration pushes to keep the number of uninsured Americans at a record...
President Joe Biden calls on a reporter for a question after speaking about deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Failing US nursing homes to face tougher federal penalties

WASHINGTON — The worst-of-the-worst nursing homes will face tougher penalties if conditions don't improve at their facilities, the Biden istration announced Friday. The intensified scrutiny on some nursing homes, where more than...
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference announcing investments in the nation's behavioral health infrastructure, at the HHS Humphrey Building, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden istration seeks to expand 24/7 mental health care

WASHINGTON — The government announced plans Tuesday to award millions of dollars in grants to expand all-hours mental health and substance abuse care in more communities around the country.“Today we’re talking about...