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Lawmakers in several conservative-led states — including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi — are expected to consider proposals to provide a year of continuous health coverage to new mothers enrolled in Medicaid.
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A Montana law requiring public schools to notify parents of lessons that mention human sexuality — and allowing parents to pull their children from those lessons — has reached further and been more cumbersome than anticipated, according to two school district leaders.
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Law professors and attorneys said this appears to be the first time that pandemic-related laws have been challenged in court over an alleged infringement on tribal sovereignty.
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Peer support specialists are themselves in recovery and are employed to help others.
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In Montana and across the nation, homeless shelters are reporting that people older than 60 are a growing proportion of their populations.
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Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.
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A ballot measure that seeks to protect infants following failed abortions would impose stiff penalties on health care providers in Montana.
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Increases in wildfires and their intensity will likely expand the need for pulmonologists.
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While refugees' need for mental health services is greater than that of the general population, refugees are much less likely to receive such care.
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Montana health officials are asking state lawmakers to eliminate a board that hears appeals from people who believe they were wrongly denied public assistance benefits.