Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
How To Find the Right Medical Rehab Services
Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get.
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In Rush To Satisfy Trump, GOP Delivers Blow to Health Industry
The health industry couldn’t persuade GOP lawmakers to oppose big Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill for many reasons. A big one: Congressional Republicans were more worried about angering Trump than a backlash from hospitals and low-income constituents back home.
Vested Interests. Influence Muscle. At RFK Jr.’s HHS, It’s Not Pharma. It’s Wellness.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lambasted federal agencies he accused of being overly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But he and other “Make America Healthy Again” notables have their own financial ties to the vast and largely unregulated $6.3 trillion global wellness industry that ethicists say raise red flags.
Who’s Policing Opioid Settlement Spending? A Crowdsourced Database Might Help
Journalists Tally State and Local Health Care Implications of GOP Megabill
The Foster Care System Has a Suicide Problem. Federal Cuts Threaten To Slow Fixes.
Doulas, Once a Luxury, Are Increasingly Covered by Medicaid — Even in GOP States
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Digesting Trump’s Big Budget Law
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World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos
Insurers Fight State Laws Restricting Surprise Ambulance Bills
Payback: Tracking Opioid Cash
Who’s Policing Opioid Settlement Spending? A Crowdsourced Database Might Help
Billions in opioid settlement money was meant to be spent on treating and preventing addiction — but what happens if it’s misspent? Some advocates say attorneys general need to pay closer attention. If they don’t, a new tool might empower the public.
