Frustrated because insurance providers dropped your drug coverage? This Ohio bill would stop that – Ohio Capital Journal

Frustrated because insurance providers dropped your drug coverage?  This Ohio bill would stop that - Ohio Capital Journal

A new bipartisan bill in the Ohio House would prevent insurance providers from dropping drug coverage in the middle of a patient’s annual plan. Now, that’s completely legal and causing problems for many people across the state. Weeks after being locked into her health insurance plan, Natalie Hastings was surprised to learn her insurance would … Read more

Frustrated because insurance providers dropped your drug coverage? This Ohio bill would stop that

Frustrated because insurance providers dropped your drug coverage?  This Ohio bill would stop that

COLUMBUS, Ohio A new bipartisan bill in the Ohio House would prevent insurance providers from dropping drug coverage in the middle of a patient’s annual plan. Now, that’s completely legal and causing problems for many people across the state. Weeks after being locked into her health insurance plan, Natalie Hastings was surprised to learn her … Read more

‘Tranq’ animals are dipped into Ohio and Kentucky’s fentanyl supply

Xylazine is often mixed with fentanyl and it can cause severe skin ulcers and wound necrosis if injected repeatedly.

A Northern Kentucky doctor examined a patient who was hospitalized for weeks when caregivers removed all of the skin on her forearm to save them from amputation. Dr. Mike Kalfas said the woman had taken the opioid fentanyl contaminated with an animal tranquilizer that causes tissue death, a condition that is becoming increasingly common in … Read more