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Skeptics Question The Value Of Hydration Therapy For The Healthy

By Taunya English, WHYY October 24, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Some spa-like clinics will inject an expensive mix of water and vitamins into your bloodstream, ostensibly to ward off illness and boost energy. But can’t drinking fluids offer the same benefit?

Flickers Of Bipartisanship May Light Way For Plan B In Senate If GOP Legislation Fails

May 15, 2017 Morning Briefing

There are signs that moderates are reaching across the aisle to talk about health care. Meanwhile, a controversial provision in the Republican legislation was predicted to die in the upper chamber, but now experts aren’t so sure. And The Washington Post fact checks claims about rising premiums — under both Obamacare and the Republican bill.

Taxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab, Study Finds

By Ana B. Ibarra September 1, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The public spending on health care outpaces the nation.

Sticker Shock Forces Thousands Of Cancer Patients To Skip Drugs, Skimp On Treatment

By Liz Szabo March 15, 2017 KFF Health News Original

A growing number of patients fail to fill prescriptions because the cost of cancer drugs is too high.

CMS Identifies Hospitals Paid Nearly $1.5B In 2015 Medicare Billing Settlement

By Phil Galewitz August 23, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A year after settling billing disputes with 2,022 hospitals for 68 cents on the dollar, the government has revealed who got paid and how much.

Medicare Pays For A Kidney Transplant, But Not The Drugs To Keep It Viable

By Richard Harris, NPR News December 22, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The federal government pays for kidney transplants. But the program only pays for essential anti-rejection drugs for three years. Many people can’t afford them and can end up losing the kidney.

House Repeal Plan Would Cut $43B From Medicaid Coverage Of Kids, Analysis Finds

May 19, 2017 Morning Briefing

“Over time, per capita caps could significantly reduce the amount of funding that goes towards Medicaid coverage for children,” says Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere, the consulting firm that conducted the study. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Republican moderates float ideas in order to retain Medicaid expansion that could have other consequences for states.

Obama’s Health Care Legacy: A Landmark Becomes A Question Mark

By Sarah Varney January 10, 2017 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama succeeded where many other presidents failed, but now the fate of the Affordable Care Act rests with President-elect Donald Trump.

More Prisoners Die Of Old Age Behind Bars

By Melissa Bailey December 15, 2016 KFF Health News Original

New data show 4,980 inmate deaths in 2014, the most since counting began in 2001.

California Lawmaker Pulls Plug On Drug Price Transparency Bill

By Ana B. Ibarra August 17, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The legislation would have required drug companies to notify the state and insurers about expensive new treatments or price hikes.

Trump’s Debate Claim On Health Care Costs: It Depends What You Mean By ‘Cost’

By Julie Rovner October 10, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Although many consumers are feeling the heat from increased health care spending, the overall bill may not be larger.

Trump’s Abortion ‘Gag Rule’ Will Block $8.8B In Aid To Fight Malaria, AIDS And Other Diseases

May 16, 2017 Morning Briefing

With the rule in place, any foreign nongovernmental group that wants American money for any of its health activities must promise not to “promote abortion as a method of family planning.”

State Highlights: Pa. Hospital ‘Super Users’ Run Up $1.25B Tab; Mass. Dentists Charge Delta Dental Violated Nonprofit Rules

June 21, 2017 Morning Briefing

Media outlets report on news from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Kansas, Georgia, California, Tennessee and New York.

Surgeon General Murthy Wants America To Face Up To Addiction

By NPR Staff November 17, 2016 KFF Health News Original

More people struggle with alcohol or drugs than have cancer, and 1 in 5 Americans binge drink. It all costs the nation $420 billion a year. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says we know how to help.

Additional $8B For High-Risk Pools Swayed Lawmakers But Experts Say It Isn’t Enough

May 4, 2017 Morning Briefing

Protections for those with preexisting conditions have been a major talking point during this week’s negotiations to try to move the Republican health care plan through the House. Media outlets look at what they are, if the additional money will be cover those who need care, and the history of high-risk pools.

Cardinal Health Lays Out $6.1B To Acquire Medtronic Supplies Business

April 19, 2017 Morning Briefing

The health services company plans to acquire Medtronic’s patient care, deep vein thrombosis and nutritional insufficiency medical-supply units.

Terminally Ill Patients Don’t Use Aid-In-Dying Laws To Relieve Pain

By Liz Szabo October 26, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Ending pain and suffering has helped several states pass “right-to-die” laws, but dying patients are more concerned about controlling how they die and dying with dignity.

Democrats To GOP: Give Us Subsidies And We’ll Give You $15B For Military Spending

April 26, 2017 Morning Briefing

Those with information on the spending negotiations say Democrats are eyeing military spending as a potential compromise to get money for the “insurer bailouts” that Republicans have been targeting for years. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times and KHN offer looks at just what exactly those subsidies are.

CBO Score Of Revised GOP Health Bill: Over Next Decade, 23M Would Be Left Uninsured, Deficit Reduced By $119B

May 24, 2017 Morning Briefing

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issues its latest report on the American Health Care Act.

This Researcher Thought A Blood Test Came Back With An Error. Instead It Helped Him Unlock A Treatment

April 12, 2017 Morning Briefing

One patient with abnormally high levels of a blood-clotting protein may help those who have been diagnosed with hemophilia B. In other public health news: prostate cancer screenings, running, gun control, alcohol abuse, asbestos, and back pain.

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