Real Estate Investors Profit From Long-Term Care While Residents Languish
Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch over their performance but deny responsibility for bad care.
Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers’ Health Data
After KFF Health News reported that the Trump administration is seeking federal workers’ medical records, Democratic lawmakers are insisting that the Office of Personnel Management drop its request.
Listen: Cheap Health Insurance Isn’t Always Cheap
Across the country, people are choosing lower monthly premiums in exchange for higher out-of-pocket risk. Reporter Jackie Fortiér explains what the shift means for Americans’ health and wallets.
In Connecticut, Doctors Now Sue Patients Most Over Medical Bills, Surpassing Hospitals
Physicians, dentists, and other nonhospital providers account for more than 80% of health care debt collection cases in Connecticut courts, a CT Mirror-KFF Health News investigation finds.
An Arm and a Leg: The Accidental Architect of America’s Drug Patent Problem
An Arm and a Leg launches its “101” series with the story of Alfred Engelberg, a lawyer who’s been crusading to improve access to generic drugs by fixing loopholes in a law he helped draft more than 40 years ago.
Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
What the Health? From KFF Health News: A New CDC Nominee, Again
Journalists Talk Hot Health Topics: Urgent Care Clinics Performing Abortions and Doulas’ Pay
Listen: With Little Federal Regulation, States Are Left To Shape the Rules on AI in Health Care
New Federal Medicaid Rules Require One Month of Work. Some States Demand More.
As US Birth Rate Falls, Feds’ Response May Make Pregnancy More Dangerous
Rural Nebraska Dialysis Unit Closes Despite the State’s $219M in Rural Health Funding
Medi-Cal Immigrant Enrollment Is Dropping. Researchers Point to Trump’s Policies.
States Change Custody Laws To Keep Children of Detained Immigrants Out of Foster Care
Deadly Denials
After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization
After Eric Tennant died, his widow vowed to speak out against West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency, which had denied cancer treatment recommended by Tennant’s doctor. Her efforts paid off. In March, West Virginia’s governor signed a bill to protect some patients from harm tied to prior authorization.
