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There's a new prescription pill for postpartum depression. How will coverage work?

6:00am March 12, 2024

by April Dembosky

A prescription pill to treat postpartum depression hit the market in December, but most insurers do not yet have a policy on how patients can access it or when they will pay for it.

Striking Kaiser Permanente workers on the picket line in front of a hospital in Vallejo, Calif., on Oct. 6. A deal to avert another strike came together Friday.

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After historic strike, Kaiser Permanente workers win 21% raise over 4 years

8:12pm October 13, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The health care giant and the coalition of unions that walked out for three days earlier this month announced a contract deal that averts another strike.

Frontline health care workers hold a demonstration outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on September 4.

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75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job

1:29pm October 04, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.

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Frontline health care workers hold a demonstration on Labor Day outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Sep. 4, 2023.

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Overworked and understaffed: Kaiser workers are on the brink of a nationwide strike

6:58am September 29, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers at hundreds of U.S. facilities could go on strike for three days starting Wednesday, in the largest health care strike in the county's history.

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Miriam McDonald developed postpartum depression after giving birth to her third son, Nicholas. She says she felt sad, disconnected, and indifferent.

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Women Say California Insurer Makes It Too Hard To Get Drug For Postpartum Depression

5:41am July 13, 2021

by April Dembosky

To get a new drug for postpartum depression, some insurers want women to try other drugs first and even electroconvulsive therapy. It could be a test for California's new mental health parity law.

Karla Monterroso says after going to Alameda Hospital in May with a very accelerated heart rate, very low blood pressure and cycling oxygen levels, her entire experience was one of being punished for being 'insubordinate.'

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'All You Want Is To Be Believed': Sick With COVID-19 And Facing Racial Bias In The ER

5:01am October 21, 2020

by April Dembosky

When a Latina woman went to a Bay Area hospital, a doctor was dismissive of her COVID symptoms. Is unconscious bias one reason people of color are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus?

California Kaiser Mental Health Workers Launch Strike; Problems 'Keep Getting Worse'

8:00pm December 16, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Clinical psychologists say it can take anywhere from three weeks to two months to see patients suffering from depression, anxiety or serious emotional trauma.

Will Gersch teaches a class as part of a Colorado Kaiser Permanente pain management clinic.

Pain Management Program Offers An Alternative To Opioids

2:07pm December 29, 2017

by John Daley

Studies show some promising results for new approaches to opioid addiction, but some insurers won't pay for alternative treatments like classes on pain management.

Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, is optimistic about a bipartisan health bill. He cautions that partisanship will only lead to more insurance instability.

Kaiser Permanente CEO Says A Bipartisan Health Bill Is The Best Way Forward

3:54pm September 27, 2017

by April Fulton

If Republicans and Democrats work together to solve a few critical challenges in the health insurance market, it will stabilize, says Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson.

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New research finds that African-Americans who grow up in harsh environments and endure stressful experiences are much more likely to develop Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.

Stress And Poverty May Explain High Rates Of Dementia In African-Americans

2:05am July 16, 2017

by Jon Hamilton

New research finds that African-Americans who grow up in harsh environments and have many stressful experiences are much more likely to develop Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia.