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Patients Want To Price-Shop For Care, But Online Tools Unreliable

By Elana Gordon, WHYY November 30, 2015 KFF Health News Original

A tough diagnosis and a high-deductible insurance plan motivated one couple to shop carefully for care. But they hit a snag — inaccurate prices on online calculators. Who can comparison shop if the price tags are wrong?

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A Med School Teaches Science And Data Mining

By Julie Rovner October 30, 2015 KFF Health News Original

At NYU medical school, students learn to access huge troves of data to become doctors who understand the health care system, and individual ailments, better.

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Buyer Beware: A Mammogram’s Price Can Vary By Nearly $1,000, Study Finds

By Jordan Rau October 7, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Researchers looked at women’s health services around the country and found stark disparities between cities but also within health care markets.

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In Caring For Sickest Infants, Doctors Tap Parents For Tough Calls

By Jenny Gold November 17, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Doctors were once unquestioned authorities on how aggressively to treat the sickest and most premature babies. Now, they increasingly include parents in these wrenching choices.

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Why Don’t We Have Mental Health Parity?

August 27, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The law says insurance companies must pay for mental health benefits the same as they do everything else. Addiction as much as diabetes. Depression as much as cancer. But around the country, consumers are taking their insurers to court saying the companies are refusing to pay up. The insurance providers say mental health is complicated, […]

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It’s Never Too Soon To Plan Your ‘Driving Retirement’

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio November 9, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Experts say families should re-think how seniors give up the car keys. Planning transportation options way ahead of time can avoid often painful conversations and confrontations.

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Pfizer-Allergan $150B Merger Thrown Into Doubt After Treasury Imposes New Rules On Tax Inversions

April 5, 2016 Morning Briefing

The move, which was more aggressive than expected, is aimed at companies that are attempting to move their tax addresses out of the U.S. to shift profits to low-tax countries using a maneuver known as earnings stripping. “They’ve addressed literally every benefit that one attempted to gain from an inversion and shut them all down systematically,” says Robert Willens, a New York-based tax analyst.

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Tax Group: Pfizer Would Avoid $35B In Taxes Through Merger

February 26, 2016 Morning Briefing

The Americans for Tax Fairness slammed the drugmaker in a new report that says Pfizer structured its deal with Ireland-based Allergan so that it could move its address out of the country, thus avoiding $35 billion in taxes.

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The Battle Over Planned Parenthood

August 11, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News correspondent Julie Rovner discusses the efforts to defund Planned Parenthood on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook.

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Fewer Black Men Apply To Medical School Than In 1978

By Lauren Silverman, KERA October 26, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Just 1,337 black men applied to medical school in 2014 and 515 enrolled. Why?

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‘Paying For Drugs To Go In The Trash’: How Americans Waste $3B On Medications A Year

March 2, 2016 Morning Briefing

The U.S. has taken a one-size-fits all approach when it comes to packaging for expensive high-tech drugs, which has led to extraordinary waste, a new study finds.

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A Sick Newborn, A Loving Family And A Litany Of Wrenching Choices

By Jenny Gold November 16, 2015 KFF Health News Original

In deciding how far to go in treating their very sick and premature baby, one San Francisco couple acted out of hope, not always in sync with doctors and nurses.

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Rising Obesity Puts Strain On Nursing Homes

By Sarah Varney December 15, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Residences for older adults are increasingly overwhelmed, and unprepared, for huge patients, and facilities rarely accept more than a few.

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IBM To Use $2.6B Truven Purchase To Bulk Up Health Data

February 19, 2016 Morning Briefing

The deal, part of a recent health-care spending spree by the company, will add the health information of about 300 million patients to the data trove used by IBM’s Watson cognitive supercomputer.

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Workplace Wellness Programs Put Employee Privacy At Risk

By Jay Hancock September 30, 2015 KFF Health News Original

A large variety of information may be collected by wellness programs and shared with others, including businesses eager to make a buck off of it.

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Surge In Statin Use Among Very Elderly Without Heart Trouble Raises Doubts

By Lisa Gillespie September 21, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Preventive medicine trend highlights shortage of studies on drugs’ effects on very elderly.

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Controversies Made Preventive Services Panel Stronger, Says Retired Leader

By Michelle Andrews June 23, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Dr. Michael LeFevre, who has stepped down as chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force after 10 years, describes how the health law changed the group’s work and the need to improve communication about it.

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Implementation Of Obamacare Remains A Work In Progress

July 6, 2015 KFF Health News Original

With the Supreme Court decision, it appears the Affordable Care Act will stand, but that doesn’t mean the law’s troubles are over. NPR’s Renee Montagne talks to KHN’s Julie Rovner.

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Oscar Wants To ‘Revolutionize’ Health Care. But Will It Even Survive Covered California?

By Dan Diamond, California Healthline August 10, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Covered California made it official last week: After two years in the wilderness, UnitedHealthcare will return to the state’s individual insurance market and begin selling health plans on California’s exchange later this year. Not much can overshadow news about the nation’s largest insurer — except maybe a story about one of the smallest. Hi, Oscar. […]

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Half Of Nation’s Hospitals Fail Again To Escape Medicare’s Readmission Penalties

By Jordan Rau August 3, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The fines, in their fourth year, are assessed on hospitals that have patients frequently return and will cost nearly 2,600 hospitals $420 million in total.

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