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    Pa. House committee moves health insurance cost-cutting bill as part of budget negotiations
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    Pa. House committee moves health insurance cost-cutting bill as part of budget negotiations
    ZACK HOOPES pennlive.com 
    May 07, 2024
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pa. House Democrats moved forward with a bill that would facilitate a key part of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget plan — and potentially...
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    Local volunteer firefighters’ relief associations audited
    Local News, News
    Local volunteer firefighters’ relief associations audited
    Apr 30, 2024
    HARRISBURG – Auditor General Timothy DeFoor announced the release of audit reports for 44 volunteer firefighters’ relief associations (VFRAs) in sever...
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    Burns attends legislative conference
    Business, Local News, News
    Burns attends legislative conference
    Apr 18, 2024
    Alexis Burns was one of just more than 30 Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B) members from throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware who traveled to Washingt...
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    Health care is still too costly for Americans
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Health care is still too costly for Americans
    Apr 11, 2024
    America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously expensi...
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    Pennsylvania may reconsider telehealth insurance coverage
    News, PA State News
    Pennsylvania may reconsider telehealth insurance coverage
    ANTHONY HENNEN The Center Square 
    Apr 04, 2024
    Though it didn’t gain traction last session, one legislator is again pushing for mandating that health insurance covers telehealth-related costs in Pe...
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    Court-appointed receiver for Bonamour says homes will stay open
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    Court-appointed receiver for Bonamour says homes will stay open
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Apr 04, 2024
    The receiver appointed by a federal judge to oversee Bonamour Health Group properties, including Lakeview in Smethport, has reported the six nursing f...
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    Highmark touts financial health, says U.S. workforce grew even after outsourcing
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    Highmark touts financial health, says U.S. workforce grew even after outsourcing
    Mar 19, 2024
    (TNS) — Highmark Health took in $27.1 billion in 2023, resulting in $533 million in net income, the company announced this week. The Pittsburgh-based ...
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    Lawmakers push to begin coverage for routine colonoscopies at 45
    News, PA State News
    Lawmakers push to begin coverage for routine colonoscopies at 45
    JAN MURPHY pennlive.com 
    Mar 07, 2024
    (TNS)—Waiting until age 50 for a colorectral cancer screening could have cost Anna Payne her life. She was diagnosed in 2021 at 34 with Stage 4 colon ...
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    Sick of pharmacy benefit managers
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Sick of pharmacy benefit managers
    Mar 01, 2024
    So much of American health care can be summed up with drugs. We often go to the doctor less to find out what is wrong than we do to get a prescription...
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    SMETHPORT: Unpaid workers, lawsuits trouble Lakeview nursing facility
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    SMETHPORT: Unpaid workers, lawsuits trouble Lakeview nursing facility
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 28, 2024
    Lawsuits, Medicare inspection reports and allegations of unpaid employees are painting a troubling picture of Lakeview Healthcare, a nursing facility ...
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    ST. MARYS: Drag races return to airport in June
    Local News, News
    ST. MARYS: Drag races return to airport in June
    MARILYN SECCO DuBois Courier Express 
    Feb 10, 2024
    ST. MARYS — The highly anticipated drag races will return to St. Marys Municipal Airport this summer after a problem with liability insurance canceled...
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    PA Insurance Department recovers millions in 2023, helped locate over $144 million in lost policy benefits
    Local News, News, PA State News
    PA Insurance Department recovers millions in 2023, helped locate over $144 million in lost policy benefits
    Feb 02, 2024
    HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) announced more than $10 million was recovered in 2023 for consumers who had funds stolen, pay...
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    DeFoor releases audit for Lafayette Township VFRA
    Local News, News
    DeFoor releases audit for Lafayette Township VFRA
    Jan 16, 2024
    HARRISBURG — Auditor General Timothy DeFoor announced the release of audit reports for 32 volunteer firefighters’ relief associations (VFRAs) includin...
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    Pa. version of Obamacare exchange sees record usage, with signups still underway
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Pa. version of Obamacare exchange sees record usage, with signups still underway
    DAVID WENNER pennlive.com 
    Dec 20, 2023
    A record 405,000 Pennsylvanians have signed up for health insurance through the state-run electronic marketplace selling coverage made available by th...
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    Change continues: Top executives leave or are reassigned at Allegheny Health Network
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    Change continues: Top executives leave or are reassigned at Allegheny Health Network
    KRIS B. MAMULA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Dec 14, 2023
    PITTSBURGH — A shuffle of top executives at Highmark Health’s Allegheny Health Network continues as the 14-hospital health care system struggles to en...
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    How much would it cost to insure Santa’s sleigh?
    Nation & World, News
    How much would it cost to insure Santa’s sleigh?
    DEB KINER pennlive.com 
    Dec 14, 2023
    Nobody wants Santa’s monthly car insurance bill. While it appears that Kris Kringle has never had an accident when traveling on Christmas Eve and he l...
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    Window will soon close to sign up for state-assisted health insurance in Pa.
    News, PA State News
    Window will soon close to sign up for state-assisted health insurance in Pa.
    DAVID WENNER pennlive.com 
    Dec 06, 2023
    Next Friday — Dec. 15 — marks an important deadline for obtaining government-assisted health insurance in Pennsylvania: It’s the last day to sign up a...
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    Resources available for older drivers in Pennsylvania
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Resources available for older drivers in Pennsylvania
    Dec 06, 2023
    MECHANICSBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is observing Older Driver Safety Week by highlighting the resources the commonwealth pro...
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    Pa. taxpayer-supported fund pays out millions in settlements
    News, PA State News
    Pa. taxpayer-supported fund pays out millions in settlements
    FORD TURNER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Dec 04, 2023
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — The taxpayer-supported pool of money that covered most of the $295,000 sexual harassment settlement involving a former top Shapiro ...
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    Health insurance premiums dropped? Not so fast
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Health insurance premiums dropped? Not so fast
    E.J. ANTONI 
    Nov 30, 2023
    WASHINGTON (TNS) — The latest Consumer Price Index report showed inflation slowing in October, due in part to a supposed 34% drop in the cost of healt...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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