Latest KFF Health News Stories
Foreign Docs Face Challenging Transition To U.S. System
News outlets report on issues ranging from how foreign doctors are assimilated into the U.S. health care system to how nurse practitioners might help address the physician shortage and the job market nurses are facing.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Obama Urges Veterans To Speak Up For The Health Law
President says overhaul won’t affect veterans’ benefits. Meanwhile, religious leaders in Illinois are promoting the law.
Medtronic Adds Disease Management To Its Portfolio
Medtronic wades into the business of disease management in a bid to find business outside its medical device offerings. In the meantime, a popular calorie-counting app gets $18 million in new venture capital funding.
U.S. Probes Whether Medicaid Programs Over-Prescribe Antipsychotics To Children
In the meantime, a Texas compounding pharmacy has become the latest to have its products recalled over meningitis concerns.
Abortion Fights In The States Turn To Digital World
Eleven states now ban abortion by telemedicine, the Guttmacher Institute says in a new study. In the meantime, the Government Accountability Office is investigating how Planned Parenthood and other related organizations spend public money.
State Highlights: Hundreds Lost D.C. Medicaid Without Cause, Some Allege
A selection of health policy stories from the District of Columbia, New York, California, Florida, North Carolina and Colorado.
Advocates For Disability, Autism Care Brace For Impact Of Health Law
The result of some elements of the health law that were initially viewed as victories are now not so clear-cut.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about state action on the health law’s implementation and other news from the health insurance marketplace.
Viewpoints: The Case For Gov’t Shutdown Over Obamacare; Tea Partiers Vs. GOP ‘Establishment Types’
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
Congress Weighing Changes To Medicare Reimbursements For Doctors
In other Medicare news, USA Today looks at the debate over whether the government should pay for Alzheimer’s PET scans.
Military officials may give these spouses health care, housing and other benefits by the end of the month, the Associated Press reports.
Today’s roundup features stories from The New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Georgia Joins 7 States That Limit Abortion Coverage For State Employees
Meanwhile, The Texas Tribune explores the impact of the Texas Legislature’s 2011 decision to drastically cut family planning financing, and The Associated Press reports on a lawsuit by abortion rights groups to stop enforcement of an Oklahoma law that blocks access to the morning-after emergency contraception pill.
Brand-Name And Generic Drug Makers Take Fight To States
The battle concerns state laws that would require pharmacists to notify doctors and patients when they substitute generic versions of drugs derived from living organisms known as biologics.
Sebelius Open To ‘Uniquely Texan’ Approach To Covering Uninsured
In Texas, she says the Obama administration was flexible about how coverage might be expanded in that state, “but as far as I know, those conversations, at least with the state officials, are not taking place right now.”
Oregon Exchange Website Won’t Be Ready Oct. 1
Although Oregon’s marketplace will launch on time, people will have to go through certified agents rather than being able to register themselves online. News outlets also report on coverage concerns from autism advocates and marketplace developments in Idaho, Florida, Washington, California and Texas.
Research Roundup: Use Of High-Deductible Plans Limits E.R. Visits; Older Folks Not As Sick
This week’s selection of studies and briefs comes from Health Affairs, National Bureau of Economic Research, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, The Heritage Foundation and Public Citizen.
Advocates Push For Renewal Of Federal Infant Screening Program
The bill would renew funding to state-run newborn screening programs, CQ HealthBeat reports.
‘Looming Questions’ Remain About Technology For Marketplaces
But HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner say the exchanges will be ready to operate on Oct. 1.
