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Latino Enrollment Key To Success Of Health Law Marketplaces

By Jenny Gold June 25, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The administration is making a strong push to entice Hispanic Americans and legal residents to get insurance through the online insurance exchanges.

NYC’s Answer To Proton Therapy Controversy: One For All

By Jenny Gold June 12, 2013 KFF Health News Original

New York City has a very different approach to proton beam therapy, a controversial high-tech radiation treatment for cancer, than other major metropolitan areas. Hospitals were encouraged to collaborate and a medical “arms race” was avoided.

Latinos Key To Obama’s Health Law Strategy

By Jenny Gold June 7, 2013 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama, who was re-elected with strong support from the Latino community, is in California today and will endorse a plan that focuses on getting Latino Americans signed up for coverage under his health care law. In remarks to the news media, slated to be given in San Jose, the president will lay out his […]

Of ACOs And Proton Beams: Why Hospitals ‘Live In Two Worlds’

By Jenny Gold June 6, 2013 KFF Health News Original

For the past several years, hospital CEOs have been talking a big game about accountable care—the latest health care model, which pays doctors and hospitals for quality, rather than the volume of services they provide. ACOs make providers jointly accountable for the health of their patients, giving them financial incentives to cooperate and to save […]

D.C. Approves Two New Proton Therapy Centers

By Jenny Gold May 31, 2013 KFF Health News Original

After months of heated debate, two of Washington’s biggest hospital systems won approval Friday to build proton treatment facilities that will cost a total of $153 million despite questions about whether the treatment is any more effective than less expensive options. Johns Hopkins Medicine will be allowed to build a two-room proton center at Sibley […]

Proton Beam Therapy Heats Up Hospital Arms Race

By Jenny Gold May 31, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Washington, D.C., is on the verge of approving two high-tech radiation facilities at a total cost of $153 million. The treatment costs twice as much as standard radiation but hasn’t been shown to work any better for most cancers.

On Day 2, Federal Insurance Marketplace Offers Mixed Bag Of Problems, But Also Successes

By Phil Galewitz and Jenny Gold and Jay Hancock and Ankita Rao and Marissa Evans October 2, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The federal health insurance marketplace continued to frustrate consumers Wednesday with delays and software failures, but some people also reported progress.

In Case Of Tornado, EHRs Can Be Just The Prescription

By Jenny Gold May 24, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Everyone expects a hospital to be ready to jump into action when disaster strikes. But what about when the disaster devastates the hospital itself? Turns out, it helps a lot to have an electronic medical record system in place. At least that was the case at Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma, a small hospital right in […]

CDC Takes A Closer Look At Kids’ Mental Health

By Jenny Gold May 16, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Somewhere between 13 and 20 percent of kids in the United States experience some sort of mental illness, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That adds up to millions of children suffering from disorders like ADHD, depression, autism and illicit drug use. The total annual cost of the […]

Video: What Insurance Exchanges Mean For Consumers

By KFF Health News Editors April 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=312284-5 KHN’s Jenny Gold appeared on the C-SPAN program, Washington Journal, to discuss the insurance exchanges where consumers will be able to purchase coverage beginning Oct. 1. Watch the above video to learn more about these new marketplaces, or read KHN’s FAQ on exchanges and Jenny’s recent story on marketing of the exchanges to consumers.

Community Health Centers Get $150 Million To Boost Exchange Enrollment

By Jenny Gold May 9, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Once upon a time, there were the navigators, then the in-person assisters, and the certified application counselors. Now, add community health centers to the list of individuals and organizations available to help consumers sign up for the new health insurance marketplaces scheduled to open Oct. 1. On Thursday, the Obama administration pledged $150 million to […]

A Shorter Exchange Application. But Is It Simpler?

By Jenny Gold April 30, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Consumer advocates have been complaining for months that the Obama administration’s 21-page application to sign up for health insurance in the exchanges is too long and complicated. The designers of the application estimated it would take 45 minutes to complete. The administration heeded the advocates’ pleas with the introduction Tuesday of a modified application of […]

Seniors Get Hung Up In Health Care Scams

By Jenny Gold April 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Law enforcement agencies report an increase in phone scams by fraudsters who prey on the public’s confusion over the massive changes taking place in the nation’s health care system — and the thieves often target senior citizens.

Immigrant Docs Help Ease California’s Primary Care Shortage

By Jenny Gold April 4, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Jose Chavez Gonzalez was working construction but had eight years of medical training in El Salvador. A UCLA program finds its candidates working in warehouses, meat packing plants and behind the counter at McDonalds.

Harkin Accuses Administration Of ‘Robbing Peter To Pay Paul’

By Jenny Gold April 11, 2013 KFF Health News Original

A Democratic senator chastised the White House Thursday for raiding the health law’s Prevention and Public Health Fund to pay for a program to help the uninsured sign up for coverage in new insurance marketplaces. “This is robbing Peter to pay Paul,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions […]

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.

Who Are The Uninsured? The Feds Parse The Numbers

By Jenny Gold March 22, 2013 KFF Health News Original

There are 48.4 million uninsured Americans — about 18 percent of the population — according to the last Census. But who are they? And what is the best way to get them signed up for new health insurance coverage options that roll out this fall? The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just released […]

GAO Report Points To Challenges In Setting Up Federal Health Insurance Marketplaces

By Jenny Gold and Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby June 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The report says that the administration “has many key activities remaining to be completed.”

Poll: Three Years Later, Americans Still Don’t Understand Health Law

By Jenny Gold March 20, 2013 KFF Health News Original

It’s been three years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, yet two-thirds of uninsured adults — the very people the law sets out to help — say they still don’t know what it means for them. Sixty-seven percent of the uninsured younger than age 65 — and 57 percent of […]

Reporter Jenny Gold Discusses What 2013 Will Hold For Health Care

January 1, 2013 KFF Health News Original

KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Reporter Jenny Gold discusses the coming shift to new payment systems such as accountable care organizations.

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