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Wellpath, the private health contractor providing healthcare treatment at Santa Barbara County’s jails at annual cost of $26 million, reported a dramatic increase — 68 percent — in the number of inmates enrolled in Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) for addiction issues in both county jails in the past year. MAT refers to treatments in which…

Mike Porter, a marketing professor at the University of St. Thomas with expertise in health care business communications, spoke with the Minnesota Star Tribune about the rise of deceptive health insurance marketing. Porter discussed how dishonest marketers target vulnerable consumers with misleading sales tactics and shared warning signs people should watch for when evaluating health insurance offers.