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In Era Of Increased Competition, Hospitals Fret Over Ratings

By Jenny Gold December 11, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals are jockeying for patients and view the many different quality and safety ratings as a keen way to distinguish their services. But when those ratings nosedive, a hospital may retaliate.

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Podcast: What The Health? Our First Live Show: What The Health Will Happen In 2018?

January 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of “What The Health?” — taped before a live audience — panelists discuss the potential federal government shutdown and what may be in store for health in 2018. They are joined by former Medicare and Medicaid head Tom Scully.

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Adultos mayores tendrán ajustes del Seguro Social, pero pagarán más por el Medicare

By Judith Graham October 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Millones de adultos mayores pronto serán notificados (si no lo han sido ya) que las primas del Medicare para servicios médicos están aumentando y podrían consumir el ajuste de costo de vida que recibirán el próximo año del Seguro Social.

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Congress Squares Off Over Drug Pricing And A Controversial Drug Discount Program

By Sarah Jane Tribble July 18, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The controversial 340B drug discount program for hospitals came under fire at a congressional hearing.

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Your Grandma’s Guide To Grass: Calif. Rolls Out Website To Cut Through Cannabis Haze

By Ana B. Ibarra October 9, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Many Californians have been using pot for years, legally and illegally. But newbies, even Grandma, might benefit from a website that contains warnings about the risks.

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Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ Tax Bill Or Health Bill?

November 17, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Sarah Kliff of Vox.com, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo discuss the inclusion of health policies into the current tax cut debate, including a possible repeal of the fines for people who fail to maintain health insurance.

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Evaluations Of Medicaid Experiments By States, CMS Are Weak, GAO Says

By Phil Galewitz February 23, 2018 KFF Health News Original

States often get federal approval to test new approaches to improve Medicaid services or expand coverage. But the GAO study found that too often these efforts are not adequately evaluated or the results are not available in a timely manner.

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A Tale Of Two CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer

By Alison Kodjak, NPR News April 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in an hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Launches $2B Fund To Help The Homeless, Build Preschools For Low-Income Families

September 14, 2018 Morning Briefing

The world’s richest man has been coming under pressure to help with the growing homeless problems. He tweeted about his philanthropic plans writing he wants “to be helping people in the here and now—short term—at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact.”

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Por qué Trump quiere quitarle fondos a Planned Parenthood

By Julie Rovner May 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

La reactivación de una norma que data de la presidencia de Ronald Reagan podría ayudar al presidente a cumplir su promesa de campaña de “cancelar” Planned Parenthood.

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Black Men’s Blood Pressure Is Cut Along With Their Hair

By Susan Abram Photos by Heidi de Marco March 12, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A new study shows that educational sessions about high blood pressure at African American barbershops, coupled with prescribing and helping to manage medication, reduced hypertension rates significantly.

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Facebook Live: Trump Ends Payments For Cost-Sharing Reductions. What’s Next?

October 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live chat, KHN’s Jay Hancock answers questions about President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will end federal payments for the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reductions.

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Meningitis B Vaccine’s High Price Poses A Health Care Conundrum For College-Bound

By Shefali Luthra September 8, 2017 KFF Health News Original

This immunization may mark a shift among some vaccine makers to higher-priced, “niche” preventives that protect against very specific and sometimes rare illnesses.

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Perspectives: Has the 340B Drug Program, Meant To Help The Poor, Outgrown Its Original Intent?

August 29, 2018 Morning Briefing

Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.

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States — And 9M Kids — ‘In A Bind’ As Congress Dawdles On CHIP Funding

By Ashley Lopez, KUT and Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR December 4, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Congress let funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program expire in September, and despite bipartisan support for the program, states are facing the specter of having to prepare to wind down their programs.

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¡Cuidado! La multa por no tener seguro que impuso el Obamacare todavía está vigente

By Emily Bazar February 28, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Si bien la administración Trump derogó la multa por no tener seguro de salud que impuso la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible, esta norma entrará en vigencia en 2019.

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Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ While You Were Celebrating …

January 4, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of “What The Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times discuss this week’s news, including release of the administration’s new rules on association health plans, as well as some health-related court rulings and other events that happened around the holidays.

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At Some California Hospitals, Fewer Than Half Of Workers Get The Flu Shot

By Jocelyn Wiener February 27, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Vaccinations rates have climbed significantly among hospital workers in recent years, to 83 percent. But that rate masks wide variation among facilities and types of workers. Nationally, the rules are far from uniform or ironclad.

 

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Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network August 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A Kaiser Health News and USA Today Network investigation finds that a hodgepodge of state rules governing outpatient centers allow some deaths and serious injuries to go unexamined. And no rule stops a doctor exiled by a hospital for misconduct from opening a surgery center down the street.

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Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ How Confused Are We?

November 2, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the start of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, legislative efforts on Capitol Hill on taxes and children’s health insurance, and recommendations of the president’s opioid commission.

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