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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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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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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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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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Adultos saltean vacunas y no se benefician de la nueva contra el herpes zóster

By Michelle Andrews March 20, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A diferencia del calendario de vacunas infantil, que los padres respetan en más de un 90%, los adultos se saltean vacunas, que previenen una amplia gama de enfermedades.

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Bill Of The Month: A College Student’s $17,850 Drug Test

By Fred Schulte February 16, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with NPR, kicks off a series that will examine and decode your perplexing medical bills.

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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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From Retirement To The Front Lines Of Hepatitis C Treatment

By Julio Ochoa, WUSF January 5, 2018 KFF Health News Original

This doctor came out of retirement with the goal of treating every patient at high risk for hepatitis C he encounters. The problem is finding them.

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Celgene Expected To Rake In $15B This Year With Strength Of Its Blockbuster Cancer Drug

July 27, 2018 Morning Briefing

But the company is on the look-out for its next blockbuster as Revlimid will face market competition in coming years. Meanwhile, advocate groups ask for insurance commissioners will investigate the growing use of copay accumulators.

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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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Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ Open Enrollment is Nigh

October 26, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Sarah Kliff of Vox.com and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo discuss this year’s open enrollment for individual health insurance that starts Nov. 1. And Rovner interviews Lori Lodes, a former Obama administration health official and founder of the new group “Get Covered America.” Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week.

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After Months In Limbo For Children’s Health Insurance, Huge Relief Over Deal

By Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR January 25, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The Children’s Health Insurance Program drew bipartisan support for two decades. After brinkmanship over the federal budget, an agreement to end the shutdown has assured CHIP funding for six years.

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Money For Health Law Navigators Slashed — Except Where It’s Not

By Alex Olgin, WFAE October 30, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Two states, North and South Carolina, have very different outlooks since the Trump administration cut funding for the people who help others sign up for health insurance.

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Bill Of The Month: For Toenail Fungus, A $1,500 Prescription

By Shefali Luthra March 16, 2018 KFF Health News Original

How a prescription wiped out one woman’s health reimbursement account, raising questions about prescription drug price tags and about how health care professionals deal (or don’t) with medical costs.

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Putting Money Where Its Mouthpiece Is: Calif. Outspends U.S. To Market Obamacare

By Ana B. Ibarra and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez November 27, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The state insurance exchange is committing nearly five times more money than the federal government on ads urging people to sign up for health insurance, reflecting conflicting attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act.

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Appeals Court Delivers Latest Blow To Hospitals By Rejecting Challenge To 340B Changes

July 18, 2018 Morning Briefing

The program helps hospitals cover charity costs related to prescriptions drugs. Last July, the Trump administration proposed slashing its higher reimbursement for the drugs by about 27 percent. A judge ruled that the hospitals had challenged the changes prematurely as none of them had taken effect yet, and the court of appeals on Tuesday affirmed the decision.

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Defending Against This Season’s Deadly Flu: 5 Things To Know Now

By Barbara Feder Ostrov January 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A particularly nasty flu is widespread in 46 states. Nationally, at least 106 people have died from the infectious disease.

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10 Ways Medicaid Affects Us All

October 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Medicaid was created in 1965 as a program for the poor. Today, it helps 74 million people — more than 1 of every 5 people in the U.S. You or someone you know likely benefits.

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Money-Saving Offer For Medicare’s Late Enrollees Is Expiring. Can They Buy Time?

By Susan Jaffe September 22, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Sept. 30 marks the end of Medicare’s temporary offer to waive penalties for certain late Medicare enrollees with Affordable Care Act insurance coverage.

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Facebook Live: It’s ACA Sign Up Season. Here’s What you Need To Know This Year.

November 2, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live chat, KHN’s Julie Appleby answers questions about what’s changed for 2018 open enrollment.

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