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Advocates Say a Practice Harms Disabled Children, Yet Congressional Action Is Stalled

By Fred Clasen-Kelly Illustration by Oona Zenda February 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In the photos, a 9-year-old boy with autism appears barricaded between cubbies and furniture stacked near the walls of a North Carolina classroom. His mother, Erin McGrail, said her son was physically restrained at least 14 times while in third grade at Morrisville Elementary School. She said she learned details of his seclusion only after […]

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Nikki Haley Wants ‘Consensus’ on Contraception. It’s Not That Easy.

By Julie Rovner February 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Nikki Haley, the last candidate standing between Donald Trump and the GOP presidential nomination, insists that being “unapologetically pro-life” doesn’t make her anti-birth control. “Let’s find consensus,” she urged at a GOP presidential debate in November. “Let’s make sure we make contraception accessible.” If only consensus were that easy. In some conservative circles, contraception is […]

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Will CMS Crack Down on Prior Authorization?

By Lauren Sausser January 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

There’s the Idaho doctor whose infant daughter developed a brain tumor. A woman in Southern California who waited months for an MRI before dying in the hospital. And a North Carolina patient who has trigeminal neuralgia — a condition so painful it’s commonly called the “suicide disease.” They all have something in common, aside from […]

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Climate Change Raises Pressure on Biden To Keep Workers Cooler

By Samantha Young January 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

With climate change posing rising threats to human health, the Biden administration is drafting federal rules to protect construction crews, warehouse workers, delivery drivers and the rest of America’s workforce from extreme heat. The regulatory effort has been years in the making, and its fate is far from certain. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration […]

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Utah Survey Shows Why So Many People Were Dumped From Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz January 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

It’s one of the biggest mysteries in health policy: What happened to millions of Americans kicked out of Medicaid last year? A survey conducted for state officials in Utah, obtained by KFF Health News, holds some clues. Like many states, Utah terminated Medicaid coverage for a large share of enrollees whose eligibility was reevaluated in […]

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Medicare Advantage Is Popular, but Some Beneficiaries Feel Buyer’s Remorse

By Sarah Jane Tribble January 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Medicare Advantage plans are booming — 30.8 million of the 60 million Americans with Medicare are now enrolled in the private plans rather than the traditional government-run program. But a little-known fact: Once you’re in a Medicare Advantage plan, you may not be able to get out. Traditional Medicare usually requires beneficiaries to pay 20 […]

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Alex Azar’s Unusual Spin Through the Revolving Door

By Phil Galewitz January 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Washington’s infamous revolving door took an unusual turn for former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar spent about a decade with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. before coming to the nation’s capital to lead HHS in the Trump administration. But in September 2020, just a couple of months before former president Donald […]

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The AMA Wants a Medicare Cut Reversed – And Lawmakers To Stay Out of Care

By Julie Rovner January 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Congress is back this week and feverishly working on a bipartisan agreement to fund the government for the rest of the 2024 fiscal year. Ahead of a potential vote, I spoke with Jesse Ehrenfeld, the president of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest lobby group for doctors, about his organization’s priorities in Washington. Some […]

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What a Bison Goring Can Teach Us About Rural Emergency Care

By Arielle Zionts December 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Millions of Americans live in “ambulance deserts” — areas that are more than a 25-minute drive to the nearest emergency medical services (EMS) station. The most rural areas can be more than an hour away from help. These sparsely populated communities can have trouble sustaining ambulance services, if small patient volumes and low reimbursements […]

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The Market for Biosimilars Is Funky. The Industry Thinks PBMs Are To Blame

By Arthur Allen December 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Over the past year there’s been movement to rein in the three big PBMs, which face little regulation though they help set drug prices and drug choices for 80 percent of Americans and their doctors. The House voted Dec. 11, 320-71, for legislation that would require the PBMs to change some of the ways they […]

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‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminate America’s Freshwater Fish

By Hannah Norman January 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Gone fishing? Depending on the lake, your catch may not be safe to eat. A group of chemicals collectively known as PFAS are found in hundreds of consumer goods, including dental floss, rain jackets and nonstick cookware. Over decades, these chemicals have spewed from manufacturing plants and landfills into local ecosystems, polluting surface water and […]

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Republicans Once Championed Public Health. What Happened?

By Julie Rovner December 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans were all-in on boosting public health spending. “The highest investment priority in Washington should be to double the federal budget for scientific research,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) wrote in a 1999 op-ed in The Washington Post. Big spending increases for the National Institutes of Health soon […]

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Millions of Dollars Flow From Pharma to Patient Advocacy Groups

By Rachana Pradhan December 15, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Pharma money is all over the place — in universities, companies doing continuing medical education for doctors and in prominent patient advocacy organizations that are household names across America. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy nonprofit, reports today that between 2010 and 2022, the drug industry’s main lobbying group and member companies provided at least $6 […]

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A Texas Boy Needed Protection From Measles. The Vaccine Cost $1,400.

By Julie Appleby June 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A family living in Galveston was surprised to be charged thousands of dollars for immunizations for their children. Their insurance plan didn’t cover the shots, and the cost of the measles vaccine in particular was more than five times what health officials say it goes for in the private sector.

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West Virginia City Once Battered by Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’

By Taylor Sisk March 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Years of struggle prepared residents in Cabell County, West Virginia, to confront the latest wave of the opioid epidemic as mixtures of fentanyl and other drugs claim lives nationwide.

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Gilead Sciences Will Pay $202 Million To Settle Alleged Kickbacks To Doctors

April 30, 2025 Morning Briefing

From 2011 to 2017, Gilead held dinners to promote its HIV medications at expensive restaurants that federal authorities claim were “wholly inappropriate” venues, Stat reported. Gilead said it settled to avoid the cost and distraction of potential litigation.

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Medical School on Cherokee Reservation Will Soon Send Doctors to Tribal, Rural Areas

By Arielle Zionts November 1, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Native Americans and rural residents are underrepresented in medical schools. But in this new program, 25% of students are Indigenous and half are from rural areas.

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Silence in Sikeston: Is There a Cure for Racism?

By Cara Anthony October 8, 2024 Podcast

In the finale of “Silence in Sikeston,” Black residents organize a Juneteenth barbecue. The Department of Public Safety chief encourages officers to attend to build trust. But improving relations between Sikeston’s Black community and the police won’t be easy. Host Cara Anthony discusses the possibility of institutional change in Sikeston.

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First Edition: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

February 11, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. Note to readers: We’d like to speak with personnel from the Department of Health and Human Services or its component agencies about what’s happening within the federal health bureaucracy. Please share your story at https://kffhealthnews.org/hhs-tips/, or contact reporter Arthur Allen directly by email or Signal at ArthurA@kff.org or 202-365-6116.

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February 10, 2025 Morning Briefing

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