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Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks

Henry Larweh and Rachana Pradhan and Rae Ellen Bichell

The Trump administration's cuts of public health funds to state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of where someone lives, a new KFF Health News analysis shows.

An AI Assistant Can Interpret Those Lab Results for You

Kate Ruder

While patients wait to hear back from their doctors about test results, many turn to AI assistants for answers despite cautions over privacy and accuracy.

Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive

Arielle Zionts

Independent and rural hospitals are collaborating with their neighbors to shore up their finances instead of joining larger health systems to stay afloat.

In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions

Stephanie Armour and Christine Mai-Duc and Sam Whitehead and Arielle Zionts

The Trump administration has pushed a significant amount of health costs to states, whose budgets may already be strained by declining state tax revenues, a slowdown in pandemic spending, and economic uncertainty. State and local governments now face difficult decisions.

Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue States

Angela Hart and Devi Shastri, The Associated Press

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hunting for Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse in at least six Democratic-led states that expanded coverage to low-income and disabled immigrants without legal status, according to records obtained by KFF Health News and The Associated Press.

Programas de inteligencia artificial te ayudan a interpretar tus resultados de laboratorio

Kate Ruder

Muchos pacientes están utilizando programas como ChatGPT de OpenAI, Claude de Anthropic y Gemini de Google, para interpretar sus datos médicos

Luego de los recortes de Trump a la salud, estados enfrentan decisiones presupuestarias difíciles

Stephanie Armour and Christine Mai-Duc and Sam Whitehead and Arielle Zionts

En conjunto, estas reducciones representan un cambio radical en la forma en que se financian y se ofrecen los programas estatales de salud.

La administración Trump investiga el gasto de estados demócratas en Medicaid para inmigrantes

Angela Hart and Devi Shastri, The Associated Press

Estos estados brindan cobertura médica integral a inmigrantes pobres y con discapacidades que viven en el país sin estatus migratorio permanente.

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