The cost of heading out of town this Memorial Day weekend will be higher than past years, with higher gas prices and inflation hitting travelers. However, many Montanans still will be getting out of town. The average price of gas per gallon in Montana is $4.38, slightly below the national average of $4.60 but still a record high for the state. .
During the first year of the global pandemic, medical consumers in Colorado received more than one million low-value healthcare services - diagnostic tests, screenings and treatments where the risk of harm outweighs any likely benefit to the patient. Cari Frank, vice president for communications with the Center for Improving Value in HealthCare - the group behind a new report, said consumers and insurers paid $134 million for these services in 2020. "Even in spite of COVID, when people weren t accessing health-care services the same way," said Frank, "we still saw high numbers of these low-value care services. " .
Individuals who live with chronic diseases refer to "step therapy" as a major roadblock to getting the often life-saving drugs they need, while health insurance companies view the approach as
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Despite the pandemic, North Carolina has seen a record number of new businesses created in the past year. A report from the Secretary of State s office says new business filings for 2021 grew 40% over 2020, for a total of more than 178,000 new businesses in the state. The previous record had been set in 2020, and new business growth overall has more than doubled since 2017. .