Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump To Rescind Staffing Mandate
A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.
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With Trump on the Way, Advocates Look to States To Pick Up Medical Debt Fight
Patient and consumer advocates fear a new Trump administration will scale back federal efforts to expand financial protections for patients and shield them from debt.
California Falling Short of Enrollment Goal as Mental Health Courts Roll Out Statewide
California’s goal was to help 2,000 seriously mentally ill people by the end of this year, but data shows fewer than 600 petitions have been filed. As the CARE program expands to every county, officials say it sometimes takes months to locate eligible adults and get them in treatment plans.
Who Gets Obesity Drugs Covered by Insurance? In North Carolina, It Helps If You’re on Medicaid
GLP-1 agonist medications such as Ozempic accounted for 10% of the North Carolina state employee health plan’s prescription drug spending, so the state is no longer covering them for weight loss alone. Still, it did decide to cover them for Medicaid patients’ weight loss. A look inside the state’s coverage calculus.
Homebound Seniors Living Alone Often Slip Through Health System’s Cracks
A Toddler Got a Nasal Swab Test but Left Before Seeing a Doctor. The Bill was $445.
Journalists Dish on New Weight Loss Drugs, RFK Jr.’s Fluoride Claims, and Reproductive Health
Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable
Florida’s Deloitte-Run Computer System Cut Off New Moms Entitled to Medicaid
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room
Indiana Hospitals Pull Merger Application After Pushback Over Monopoly Concerns
Make America Healthy Again: An Unconventional Movement That May Have Found Its Moment
Immigration Detention Center Contractor Sues Over California Health Inspections
Systemic Sickness
Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress.
The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.
