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Study Finds A Cancer Drug Could Help Quash HIV Infections

January 27, 2022 Morning Briefing

Pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda, may be able to flush out HIV from immune cells in people who’ve controlled their infections. Among other news, a Gilead anti-cancer drug may have hit a serious safety snag in trials, and out-of-pocket expenses for hepatitis B drugs have been rising.

How One Indie Artist Used Her Pandemic Lockdown to Create an Album With Global Collaborators

By Chaseedaw Giles April 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic-induced lockdowns have only increased the demand for music-streaming services. This independent singer wrote, recorded and produced an album with musicians around the world during the pandemic’s rolling stay-at-home mandates.

HHS Enforcement Of 340B Program Up In Air With Conflicting Court Rulings

November 8, 2021 Morning Briefing

As hospitals and pharmaceutical companies fight in court over the prescription drug discount program, the oversight power of the Health Resources and Services Administration is also at issue.

‘An Arm and a Leg’: David vs. Goliath: How to Beat a Big Hospital in Small Claims Court

By Dan Weissmann November 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a classic — and hilarious — David vs. Goliath story, Jeffrey Fox takes on a huge hospital over an outrageous bill, and wins.

Consejos para inscribirse bien en Medicare durante la complicada inscripción abierta

By Bernard J. Wolfson November 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Medicare se reduce fundamentalmente a dos alternativas: la tarifa por servicio del Medicare Tradicional o el enfoque de atención administrada de Medicare Advantage.

Bipartisan Bill Would Alert Those Nearing Medicare Age About Late Fees

March 3, 2022 Morning Briefing

A growing number of Americans who don’t qualify for automatic enrollment at age 65 can get hit by Medicare Part B financial penalties if they don’t sign up by the time they are eligible. A Senate-introduced bill aims to inform people before that point — many of whom are unaware of the late-enrollment fees. Other Medicare news stories report on drug prices, nursing home quality, and more.

Proposed 340B Rule Retracted That Would Have Jolted Community Clinics

October 1, 2021 Morning Briefing

The Health Resources and Services Administration pulled back a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required community health clinics to pass savings from reduced 340B pricing on insulin and Epi-Pens directly to patients instead of reinvesting in local services.

America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine

By Sarah Varney August 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies are less effective for obese people, leaving them more vulnerable to serious illness. As scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, experts say obesity could prove an impediment — a sobering prospect for a nation in which nearly half of all adults are obese.

Hospital Executive Charged In $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing Scheme

By Lauren Weber and Barbara Feder Ostrov June 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In an investigation last year, KHN detailed the rise and fall of Miami businessman Jorge A. Perez’s rural hospital empire, which spanned eight states and encompassed half of the rural hospital bankruptcies in 2019.

‘No Mercy’ Chapter 3: Patchwork of Urgent Care Frays After a Rural Hospital Closes

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fort Scott, Kansas, went without an ER for 18 days, after the local hospital shut down. Documenting local trauma during that “dark period” helped investigative reporter Sarah Jane Tribble unravel some of the complications that come after a rural hospital closes.

Geography Is Destiny: Dentists’ Access to Covid Shots Depends on Where They Live

By Phil Galewitz January 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A handful of states are making dentists a lower priority than other health professionals for inoculations, even though they have their hands in people’s mouths and are exposed to aerosols that spray germs in their faces.

‘No Mercy’ Chapter 2: Unimaginable, After a Century, That Their Hospital Would Close

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

After Mercy Hospital Fort Scott shut its doors, investigative reporter Sarah Jane Tribble traveled to Kansas and spent time with former hospital president Reta Baker and City Manager Dave Martin — to understand what their town lost.

‘No Mercy’ Chapter 4: So, 2 Nuns Step Off a Train in Kansas … A Hospital’s Origin Story

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 20, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Mercy Hospital and the people of Fort Scott, Kansas, have a long, tangled history. To understand what the town lost when the hospital shut its doors, we rewind the story to 1886.

Main Flu Strain Has Mutated; Current Flu Vaccines May Not Prevent Infection

December 17, 2021 Morning Briefing

It’s bad news for the vaccine, said Scott Hensley, a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania who led the study. Flu vaccines protect against four strains: H3N2, H1N1 and two strains of influenza B. The study covers just H3N2, but that happens to be the main circulating strain.

Fauci Vs. His Republican Critics

November 29, 2021 Morning Briefing

Dr. Anthony Fauci is firing back at Republicans like Senator Ted Cruz, who have attacked him. In other news from the nation’s capital, the NIH director says it may be two or three weeks before scientists know enough about the new variant and the Supreme Court hearing an abortion case and a 340B case.

In Search of the Shot

February 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN readers detail their frustrations and successes as they hunt for a scarce covid-19 vaccine.

The Cost Of People Who Went To The ER But Didn’t Need To? $47B Yearly

October 1, 2021 Morning Briefing

Modern Healthcare covers news about incorrect use of hospital emergency services and the huge costs incurred each year. Also in the news, a potential Kaiser Permanente strike; the struggle to train new nursing staff; medical AI company Dascena; ransomware attacks and more.

B.1.1.7 Is Now ‘Alpha’: WHO To Rename Covid Variants

June 1, 2021 Morning Briefing

The current series of complex numbers and letters makes it hard to keep B.1.351 straight from B.1.671.2. So the World Health Organization is set to unveil a new naming convention that uses the Greek alphabet instead. Experts also hope that the change will alleviate location stigmas associated with virus variants.

As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

By Harris Meyer February 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The measures would impose taxes on increases in the price of drugs that don’t reflect improved clinical value and set the rates paid by state-run and commercial health plans to a benchmark based on prices in Canada.

Trump Administration Approves First Medicaid Block Grant, in Tennessee

By Phil Galewitz January 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad authority in running the health insurance program for the poor in exchange for capping its annual federal funding.

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