Listen A fast-growing Nashville healthcare company faces a class action lawsuit that attempts to halt its meteoric rise. SmileDirectClub has faced the ire of dentists and orthodontists in its short 5-year history. Now, some of them are alleging the company is committing fraud and misleading customers.
Tennessee’s Waiting Period Is On Trial As Abortion Rates And Providers Dwindle
Listen Tennessee’s two-day waiting period to get an abortion is on trial this week in Nashville’s federal court, and abortion rights supporters say the stakes are much higher than when the law took effect four years ago.
How TennCare Could Change Under Nation’s First Block Grant Proposal
Tennessee’s Medicaid program stands to bring in as much as an additional $1 billion a year in federal money if its block grant proposal, released Tuesday, is approved without changes. And TennCare would have more flexibility in how to spend that money, like transforming rural hospitals or funding healthy food and housing.
Tennessee Is Content With Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy If It Speeds Up Payouts
Listen States have been divided over whether Purdue Pharma should be allowed to use Chapter 11 protection as part of a $10 billion settlement. But Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says the state needs that money now to address effects of the opioid crisis, like funding addiction treatment and buying overdose reversal drugs.
TennCare Designs Block Grant Proposal With Expansion Of Services In Mind
Listen Tennessee’s Medicaid program is preparing to finalize the country’s first block grant application within days. The plan would reimagine the way the federal government funds health care for low-income Tennesseans, and according to TennCare officials, it envisions expansion of service rather than cuts.
Investigation: Vanderbilt’s John Geer Among Professors Quietly Defending Tobacco Companies In Court
Listen One of Vanderbilt University’s highest-profile administrators has quietly helped defend cigarette makers against lawsuits from sickened smokers for the past 15 years, according to a WPLN investigation.
Briley Tries To Broker Agreement Between General Hospital And Meharry
Nashville Mayor David Briley sits down with the head of Meharry Medical College and Nashville General Hospital Friday in a private meeting. He’s trying to broker a new partnership agreement, with a deadline looming at the end of next week.
Lincoln County’s Hospital Gets A New CEO Amid Competing Visions For The Future
Listen Lincoln County’s only hospital has a new CEO who starts this week. Russ Spray has managed other hospitals in southern Middle Tennessee, but now he’s tasked with turning around a facility on the Alabama border that has been bleeding millions of dollars a year.
HCA Can’t Hide From Hurricanes With 45 Hospitals In Florida, So It Preps Like It’s The Apocalyps
Listen As Hurricane Dorian threatened the Florida coast, top officials at HCA spent Labor Day weekend wringing their hands, pulling all-nighters in a Nashville command center. It almost didn’t matter where the storm hits; HCA Healthcare’s hospitals were going to be affected. With dozens of hospitals on Florida’s east and west coasts, the for-profit hospital […]
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