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A recent report on the percentage of Arkansas residents with medical marijuana cards required vastly more effort than previously. read more >

A proposed Medicare rule change should reinforce Arkansas pharmacies in their continuing fight with pharmacy benefit managers over fees. read more >

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock is unsure how the fast-moving omicron variant will affect its financial health for its current fiscal year. read more >

Record COVID cases are transforming a long-standing problem in Arkansas — the state’s nursing shortage — into a crisis. read more >

An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Services Survey data on hospital visits shows the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital revenue in the United States, notably big declines in revenue during the pandemic’s early days and then big jumps in revenue once Congress approved pandemic relief. read more >

Conway Regional Health System’s decision to add nearly a dozen doctors last year seems to be paying off as the system continues growing. read more >

Terry Amstutz came to McGehee Hospital in January 2019 to help it turn around. So far, his efforts are working. read more >

Evictions are rising in Arkansas, even as a national moratorium is in place, according to two nonprofit law firms that offer free legal help in civil cases. read more >

Arkansas hospitals are still losing millions of dollars to the COVID-19 pandemic, and executives say they can’t count on a second injection of federal stimulus money. read more >

An Arkansas physician who rehabilitated his image, regaining his medical license after going to federal prison on a child pornography charge, is now charged with a felonious relapse — this time accused of overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances. read more >

The idea of Americans scrolling through hospital websites to find the best deal on a mammogram or tonsillectomy sounds good to almost everybody. But the devil is in the details, and when federal plans emerged to force hospitals and insurers to reveal their negotiated rates for all kinds of medical services, the pitchforks came out. read more >

His father's preventable stroke set the stage for Allan Nichols' career move into nonprofit health care and Mainline Health Systems Inc., which now boasts full-service clinics throughout the Arkansas Delta. read more >

Hospitals in the Arkansas Delta are fighting the opioid epidemic with every weapon at their command, including a little-noticed lawsuit by a Monticello hospital against the larger opioid manufacturers. read more >

The FBI and Arkansas’ attorney general are investigating the defunct South Arkansas Youth Services Inc. of Magnolia, according to the nonprofit’s recent bankruptcy filing. read more >

Planned Parenthood continued its legal successes this month against states that attempt to cut its funding. read more >