Federal law requires states to have “estate recovery programs” to seek reimbursements for spending under Medicaid. While some states target very little — Hawaii’s program collected just $31,000 in 2019 — other states are more aggressive — Iowa contracts with a private company that recovered $26 million that same year.
Both would preserve brands but seek administrative efficiencies
With a sharp rise in sexually transmitted infections, the Sexual Health Alliance of Linn and Johnson Counties is brainstorming ways to reduce 10-year highs.
At-home tests, which aren’t required to be reported, have grown in popularity — and have made the state’s weekly COVID-19 data reporting “less meaningful,” according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
Avid golfer Jim Thacker returns to course after advanced heart procedure at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids
Dozens of automated external defibrillators and trauma first aid kits — valued at over $100,000 — will go to first-responders, ambulance crews, churches and nonprofit organizations in Benton, Jones and Linn counties.
Johnson County has been designated a HeartSafe Community as local partners continue informing residents how to effectively intervene if they witness someone in sudden cardiac arrest.
The clinics run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday as well as Feb. 25, March 18 and 25, April 15 and 22 and May 13 and 20 at the center, 1201 Third Ave SE in Cedar Rapids.
Compounding escalating costs associated with the University of Iowa’s construction of its 14-story Stead Family Children’s Hospital, campus officials are asking permission to spend $45 million replacing damaged windows on nine floors – tripling the $15 million they originally planned to spend replacing cracked or delaminated windows on two floors.
After dire predictions about a “tripledemic” of RSV, COVID-19, influenza and other respiratory viruses, hospitals in Cedar Rapids and elsewhere are faring better than predicted.
The bill, expected to be signed into law, would cap non-economic damages at $2 million for hospitals and $1 million for doctors.
Wrapping up a medical drama that started 12 years ago in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics operating room, the State Appeal Board on Monday agreed to settle a 2020 lawsuit from a former employee accusing UIHC of improperly sharing details of an incident with prospective employers.
UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids on Thursday became the region’s most recent health care system to announce plans to open an off-campus emergency department – with its new Marion site expected to open in summer 2024. That’s just miles from a Mercy Medical Center facility also announced this week.
State fines Urbandale center after worker says woman showed no pulse
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