Correction: We revised the article today to correct details about the BrightLife Kids app for Android.

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California’s $500M youth teletherapy apps launched four months ago. “I'm not hearing anything,” said Loretta Whitson, executive director of CASC. “It's like crickets.” Molly Work KFF Health News CaliforniaHealthline chalkbeat.org/2024/04/25/cal…

How's Gavin Newsom's foray into telehealth going?

One firm missed a deadline to make its app available on Android phones. Only about 15,000 have signed up. State won't say yet how many are active users.
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Study published today is the third to find that prices spike after cross-market #hospital mergers, and the first to find that quality does not improve statnews.com/2024/04/23/hos… via STAT

“We shouldn’t be placing youth in facilities without knowing what these children will be subjected to,” Hilton testified this past Monday to the Senate Human Services Committee in Sacramento.

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Celebrity hotel heiress ParisHilton is backing California lawmakers’ push to increase the transparency of residential teen therapeutic centers.

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Related to our ongoing investigation - FDA Announces Recall of Heart Pumps Linked to Deaths and Injuries kffhealthnews.org/MTgzOTkyNw via @kffhealthnews

NEW: Celebrity advocate ParisHilton backs bill in California to increase transparency of “troubled teen industry”

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“We shouldn't be placing youth in facilities without knowing what these children will be subjected to,” ParisHilton testified in California Senate Monday.

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National efforts to increase oversight for youth residential care programs have failed for a decade. So advocates have passed protections in states including Montana, Illinois, Missouri, and Oregon.

Now, they're eyeing CA📝Molly Work californiahealthline.org/news/article/p…

Also this week, julie rovner interviews Molly Work, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about an air-ambulance ride for an infant with RSV that his insurer deemed not to be medically necessary. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

The country's biggest #hospital chain, HCA, told CMS it spent ~$1 billion more on charity care than it reported to shareholders, helping it draw more taxpayer $ from safety-net programs

“This is the underbelly of the health care system.'

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The air-ambulance industry — much of it controlled by private equity firms — is known for fast-growing prices, limited in-network contracting and surprise out-of-network bills averaging nearly $20,000.

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