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Don’t Count on Lower Premiums Despite Pandemic-Driven Boon for Insurers

By Bernard J. Wolfson July 31, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Early in the pandemic, insurers expected the costs of treating COVID-19 would vastly increase medical spending. Instead, non-COVID care has plummeted and insurers have pocketed the result. Still, few industry observers are predicting broad-based premium cuts in 2021, though some health plans have proposed lowering their rates.

When Your Doctor Is Also A Lobbyist: Inside The War Over Surprise Medical Bills

By Rachana Pradhan February 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

As lawmakers consider bills to protect patients against surprise medical bills, doctors have waged a stealth on-the-ground campaign to win over members of Congress. Here’s how they did it.

Readers React: UVA Doctors Outraged Over Their Own Health System’s Billing Practices

November 23, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Attention, Marketplace Shoppers: Don’t Delay On 2019 Enrollment

By Michelle Andrews November 21, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Plans offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces for 2019 are on sale now. Consumers should check them out soon, because in many states most sales end on Dec. 15.

Atención consumidores: no se dejen estar, inscríbanse en un plan de salud para 2019

By Michelle Andrews November 21, 2018 KFF Health News Original

En la mayoría de los estados, el período de inscripción abierta cierra el 15 de diciembre. Los estados que gerencian sus propios mercados tienen más flexibilidad.

How A Drug Company Under Pressure For High Prices Ratchets Up Political Activity

By Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas April 30, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Denmark-based drugmaker Novo Nordisk has invested more in lobbying and doubled political donations since 2015.

KFF Health News Conversation On Advance Care Planning: What You Need To Know Now

November 8, 2017 Page

KFF Health News senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia moderates a discussion of the pressing issues surrounding end-of-life advance care planning.

Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs

By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas Photos by Heidi de Marco November 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

With the nation’s opioid crisis, urine testing has become a booming business and is especially lucrative for doctors who operate their own labs, a Kaiser Health News investigation finds. And dozens of practitioners have earned “the lion’s share” of their Medicare income exclusively from urine drug screens.

‘No One Is Coming’: Hospice Patients Abandoned At Death’s Door

By JoNel Aleccia and Melissa Bailey Photos by Heidi de Marco October 26, 2017 KFF Health News Original

U.S. hospice agencies promise to be available around-the-clock to help patients dying in their homes. But a Kaiser Health News investigation shows that in an alarming number of cases, that promise is broken.

Candidates Decry High Drug Prices, But They Have Few Options For Voters

By Julie Rovner September 16, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Drug prices rise for a variety of reasons but opportunities for the government to control them is limited.

Sounding An Alarm On Alarms

By Alvin Tran April 15, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Got alarm fatigue? Some doctors and nurses do, according to The Joint Commission, a nonprofit hospital accrediting organization. In their latest Sentinel Event Alert, issued April 8, the commission highlighted the dangers that result when doctors and other health professionals develop “alarm fatigue” or become desensitized and immune to alarm sounds set off by medical […]

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 […]

Texas Lawsuit Identifies Problems In Medicare Hospice Provisions

By Jordan Rau November 16, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Complaint filed in federal court alleges one of the nation’s largest hospice companies and HMO firms defrauded the government by inappropriately shifting patients into the program for terminally ill.

Individual Mandate Would Impose High Implicit Taxes on Low-Wage Workers

By Michael F. Cannon January 13, 2010 KFF Health News Original

A Cato Institute new study finds implicit marginal tax rates would hover near 70-80 percent over broad ranges of income. In many cases, they would exceed 100 percent, financially penalizing those who try to climb the economic ladder.

The Indian Health Service Paradox

By Mark Trahant September 16, 2009 KFF Health News Original

The Indian Health Service serves as an example of “big” government health care that is lean and efficient.

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