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Medicaid Expansion Continues To Make Political And Policy Waves In The Carolinas, Pennsylvania

September 9, 2013 Morning Briefing

While South Carolina works on its own “plan b” to pursue instead of the health law’s Medicaid expansion, a North Carolina hospital plans to close its doors. Its parent company blames the state’s decision against the expansion.

Bid To Cover Abortion After Rape For Peace Corps Volunteers

By Ankita Rao April 25, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced a bill Thursday that would provide health insurance coverage for abortions to Peace Corps volunteers in the case of rape or incest. The Peace Corps Equity Act of 2013 echoes the Shaheen Amendment, which President Barack Obama signed into law in 2012. That law provides military women coverage for abortions […]

What’s The Price? Simple Question, Complicated Answer In Medicare

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR March 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

I wrote to Medicare a while back, asking for a price. I know nothing is simple in the world of health care costs, but I just needed one number, a number Medicare uses all the time, I supposed, to calculate payments to doctors and hospitals. Here’s what I wanted to know: How much does Medicare […]

Bipartisan Center Offers Plan To Reduce Health Spending

By Mary Agnes Carey April 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Medicare beneficiaries would have access to better coordinated medical care and the current Medicare physician payment formula would be scrapped as part of a health care cost containment plan the Bipartisan Policy Center unveiled Thursday. The plan offers more than 50 recommendations that would cut the federal deficit by about $560 billion over the next […]

Bloggers See Own Reflections In Oregon Medicaid Study

By Jordan Rau May 3, 2013 KFF Health News Original

This week’s study of Oregon Medicaid recipients has quickly become a Rorschach test for how partisans and health policy wonks view the health care law. To recap, that study compared the health care of the winners and losers of a lottery held by Oregon in 2008 to decide who could enroll in the limited spots in the […]

Hospitals In 5 States Clamp Down On Delivering Babies Before 39 Weeks

By Phil Galewitz April 8, 2013 KFF Health News Original

When hospitals commit to stopping the delivery of babies before 39 weeks gestation unless there is medical cause to do so, they can dramatically lower rates that can put babies at increased risk for serious health problems. A study published Monday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology showed a group of 25 hospitals in five states were able to cut their […]

FDA Approves Plan B Pill, Ends Long Fight

June 21, 2013 Morning Briefing

The FDA on Thursday approved over-the-counter sales without age restriction for the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill, ending a decade-long fight over the pill.

State Highlights: Medicaid Pilot Project Costs $32B More Than Expected

July 24, 2013 Morning Briefing

A selection of health policy stories from the District of Columbia, New York, Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, Colorado and California.

State Highlights: Minn. Health Plans Stockpile Nearly $2B In Cash

July 16, 2013 Morning Briefing

A selection of health policy stories from Minnesota, California, Georgia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

Eye Lift Surgery Increasingly Billed To Medicare

By Joe Eaton and David Donald, Center for Public Integrity May 28, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Despite rules against Medicare coverage for cosmetic surgery, eyelid lifts billed to Medicare have more than tripled over a decade.

Complications Emerge To Administration’s Plan B Proposal

June 14, 2013 Morning Briefing

NPR reports on Judge Edward Korman’s response to the Obama administration’s Plan B proposal while CNN Money explores how the “conscience clause” creates challenges for drugstores as they sell the morning-after pill over the counter.

Obama Administration Changes Course On Plan B

June 11, 2013 Morning Briefing

Monday afternoon, the Justice Department announced it would accept recent court rulings and begin putting into effect a judge’s order to have the Food and Drug Administration certify the Plan B pill for use without prescription and without age restrictions on sales.

Worries Mount About Enrolling Consumers In Federally Run Insurance Exchanges

By Jenny Gold April 7, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Few consumers know what they’ll need to do to sign up for the new health insurance marketplaces. Advocates worry about the outreach strategy and funding in states that defaulted to the federal government to run the exchanges.

Feds Help States Qualify For More Medicaid Dollars

By Phil Galewitz February 1, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration on Friday released guidance to states on how they can increase their Medicaid funding by eliminating copays for certain preventive services, including immunizations. The provision of the Affordable Care Act was slated to take effect Jan. 1. States that implement the changes can apply for the funding retroactive to that date. The specified preventive services […]

3 Hill Panels Examining Changes To Medicare

By Mary Agnes Carey February 25, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Updated at 12:10 p.m. With $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts set to take effect on Friday and predictions of economic disruption, much of official Washington is focused on the “blame game.” Publicly, there has been no sign that Congress or administration officials has made any progress on averting these cuts or finding common […]

Questions Emerge As Dust Settles Surrounding Plan B Policy Change

June 12, 2013 Morning Briefing

News outlets offer day-after coverage of the Obama administration’s reversal on the morning-after contraceptive pill.

First Edition: June 11, 2013

June 11, 2013 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including coverage of the Obama administration’s decision to drop the fight to keep age restrictions in place for Plan B emergency contraceptive pill sales.

Judge OKs Administration Plan On ‘Morning After’ Pill

June 13, 2013 Morning Briefing

A federal judge Wednesday accepted the Obama administration’s plan to make the Plan B One-Step “morning after” pill available over the counter to buyers of all ages, winding down a decade-long fight on the pill.

‘Morning After’ Pill Advocates Seek Another Look At Age Rules

By Julie Rovner, NPR News December 7, 2012 KFF Health News Original

This story comes from our partner ‘s Shots blog. Friday marks a not-so-happy anniversary for some of President Obama’s biggest supporters: It’s exactly one year since Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided not to lift the age restrictions on availability of the so-called morning-after pill, Plan B. But now, with the election safely behind them, backers of […]

A Wish List For Medicare

By Mary Agnes Carey January 30, 2013 KFF Health News Original

If you could make one change to Medicare, what would it be? Ask three former directors of the program and you’ll get plenty of ideas. Bruce Vladeck, who was head of what was then known as the Health Care Financing Administration, or HCFA, for former President Bill Clinton, wants more market-based competition and less pricing […]

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