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Opinion: How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care

STAT

With our colleagues, we found that insurance plans offered by U.S. medical schools have high out-of-network annual deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums as well as significant cost sharing, which might dissuade students from accessing mental health care when they need it.

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Opinion: Listen: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students

STAT

For the many high-achieving perfectionists who enter medical school each year, the stakes of their success have never been higher. Becoming a doctor means lives will be in their hands — and failing to make it through med school means they’ll be stuck with an unthinkable amount of debt without a viable way to pay for it.

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Top Medical School Scholarships to Apply to in 2022

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

There’s no way around it, medical school is expensive and unfortunately for medical students, the costs have been increasing over the past several years. Predictably, the cost of attending out-of-state medical schools was even more expensive. BoardVitals Medical School Scholarship.

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Can you work while in Medical School? The Physician Pharmacist Do's and Don'ts

The Physician Pharmacist

Whether you've finished the medical school application cycle or are just curious about the economics of medical school, the answer to our question is obviously yes ! You undoubtedly worked as a pharmacy intern during school, so I am confident that you can easily work as a higher paying pharmacist.

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UnitedHealth’s rehab restrictions, Texas medical school drama, and health care’s biggest profits

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You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter  following the flow of money in medicine.    Sign up  to get it in your inbox every Monday. 

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STAT+: Biosimilars haven’t always yielded lower out-of-pocket costs for patients, study finds

STAT

Biosimilars may have lowered health care spending and insurance premiums, but did not produce sufficient direct savings for many patients, they maintained. “The whole purpose of biosimilars was to introduce competition into the marketplace and lead the [U.S.] ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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An ugly fight over care for the poor in Texas

STAT

The city would get a brand-new medical school and teaching hospital, and low-income people would get more health care services. Power, politics, and care for the poor in Texas Local officials in Austin, Texas promised twelve years ago that if voters approved millions of dollars in new property taxes, it would be a win-win.