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Trump Drastically Inflates Annual Fentanyl Death Numbers

By Jacob Gardenswartz August 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The former president’s claim of 300,000 annual opioid deaths contradicts government statistics.

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Feds Try to Head Off Growing Problem of Overdoses Among Expectant Mothers

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and Katheryn Houghton October 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Homicides, suicides, and drug overdoses have driven rising rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. This fall, six states received federal funding for substance use treatment interventions to prevent at least some of those deaths.

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Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges

By Natalie Schachar July 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Amid a years-long rise in maternal mortality rates in the United States, Idaho lawmakers decided to disband a committee created to investigate pregnancy-related deaths.

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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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Public Voices Often Ignored in States’ Opioid Settlement Money Decisions

By Aneri Pattani and Henry Larweh and Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA August 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In many places, victims of the opioid epidemic are silenced in decision-making about how to use opioid settlement money, a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by KFF Health News and Spotlight PA found.

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‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Seniors Can’t Afford Basic Necessities

By Judith Graham July 25, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The Elder Index, developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, shows that nearly 5 million older women living alone, 2 million older men living alone, and more than 2 million older couples have incomes that make them economically insecure.

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Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice

By Arthur Allen September 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of patients with autoimmune diseases who rely on Humira, with a list price of $6,600 a month, could get financial relief from new low-cost rivals. So far, the pharmacy benefit managers that control drug prices in America have not delivered on those savings.

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Pfizer’s Covid Cash Powers a ‘Marketing Machine’ on the Hunt for New Supernovas

By Arthur Allen November 8, 2022 KFF Health News Original

While sales of its covid vaccines are falling, Pfizer plans to triple the price of the shots and use its bonanza from government contracts to buy and develop new blockbusters.

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The Case of the Two Grace Elliotts: A Medical Billing Mystery

By Mark Kreidler December 21, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A health system charged a woman for a shoulder replacement at a hospital across the country that she had not visited for years. She didn’t receive the care, but she did receive the bill — and the medical records of a stranger.

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¿Ahorrar miles de millones o quedarse con Humira? Intermediarios farmacéuticos guían hacia la opción más costosa

By Arthur Allen September 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Humira lleva 20 años disfrutando de una exclusividad muy cara en el país. Sus competidores podrían ahorrarle al sistema sanitario $9,000 millones.

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Big Pharma Went All In to Kill Drug Pricing Negotiations

By Arthur Allen August 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

For more than a century, the drug industry has issued dire warnings of plunging innovation whenever regulation reared its head. In general, the threat hasn’t materialized.

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How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence

By Arthur Allen July 5, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The drugmaker has the best-selling vaccine to prevent covid and the most effective drug to treat it. Its success has overshadowed the government’s covid-fighting strategy.

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California Sees Dramatic Decline in Child Homicide Victims. What’s Changed?

By Phillip Reese April 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Bucking the alarming spike in overall homicides in recent years, the homicide rate involving young children is down 70% in California from three decades ago. The nation has seen a parallel, albeit slower, decline.

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Long Waits for Montana State Hospital Leave Psychiatric Patients in Jail

By Katheryn Houghton March 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A backlog at Montana’s psychiatric hospital for those facing criminal charges has left people with serious mental illness behind bars for months without adequate treatment. In some cases, judges have freed defendants over due-process violations.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Year-End Bill Holds Big Health Changes

January 5, 2023 Podcast

The year-end spending bill passed by Congress in late December contains a wide array of health-related provisions, including a structure for states to begin to disenroll people on Medicaid whose coverage has been maintained through the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the abortion pill more widely available. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark Kreidler, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a billing mix-up that took about a year to sort out.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': At GOP Convention, Health Policy Is Mostly MIA

July 18, 2024 Podcast

After an assassination attempt last weekend sent former President Donald Trump to the hospital with minor injuries, the Republican National Convention went off with little mention of health care issues. And Trump’s newly nominated vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has barely staked out a record on health during his 18 months in office — aside from being strongly opposed to abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Renuka Rayasam, who wrote June’s installment of KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month,” about a patient who walked into what he thought was an urgent care center and walked out with an emergency room bill. 

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Nursing Homes Are Suing the Friends and Family of Residents to Collect Debts

By Noam N. Levey July 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Debt lawsuits — long a byproduct of America’s medical debt crisis — can ensnare not only patients but also those who help sick and older people be admitted to nursing homes, a KHN-NPR investigation finds.

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‘Somebody Is Gonna Die’: Medi-Cal Patients Struggle to Fill Prescriptions

By Samantha Young February 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Problems with California’s new Medicaid prescription drug program are preventing thousands of patients from getting their medications, including some life-saving ones. State officials say they’re working on fixes.

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Vaccine-or-Test Requirements Increase Work and Costs for Governments

By Amanda Michelle Gomez and Phil Galewitz November 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

But state and local officials embrace the requirement because it creates a safer workplace while allowing employees to continue working.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Florida Limits Abortion — For Now

April 4, 2024 Podcast

The Florida Supreme Court handed down dual abortion rulings this week. One said voters will be allowed to decide in November whether to create a state right to abortion. The other ruling, though, allows a 15-week ban to take effect immediately — before an even more sweeping, six-week ban replaces it in May. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is doubling down on his administration’s health care accomplishments as he kicks off his general election campaign. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University schools of nursing and public health, and Tami Luhby of CNN join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews health care analyst Jeff Goldsmith about the growing size and influence of UnitedHealth Group in the wake of the Change Healthcare hack.

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