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A Dearth Of Hospital Beds For Patients In Psychiatric Crisis

By Jenny Gold April 12, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A California Assembly bill would require creating a mandatory registry for available psychiatric hospital beds, but the state hospital association calls it unworkable.

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Doctors Get Creative To Distract Tech-Savvy Kids Before Surgery

By Jenny Gold Photos by Heidi de Marco July 12, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Anxiety before surgery can be dangerous for kids. Medication can help calm them down. But an anesthesiologist in California has come up with a safer, cheaper and much more entertaining alternative.

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President’s Task Force Aims To Help End Discrimination In Mental Health Coverage

By Jenny Gold March 31, 2016 KFF Health News Original

Some advocates for mentally ill people say the administration’s action is long overdue.

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Saving Amanda: One Family’s Struggle To Deal With A Daughter’s Mental Illness

By Jenny Gold March 14, 2016 KFF Health News Original

​It took eight years for Amanda Lipp to get adequate care for her mental illness. Now, she and her mom, Pam, are sharing their story to fight stigma around mental illness so others don’t have to go it alone.

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R2D2’s Next Assignment: Hospital Orderly

By Jenny Gold March 1, 2016 KFF Health News Original

A gleaming new hospital in San Francisco has a fleet of robots dropping off meals, picking up trash and saving some money in a very 21st century way.

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Health Reform Roils Downton Abbey

By Jenny Gold February 17, 2016 KFF Health News Original

The hospital consolidation plot in the final season of the beloved British series is historically accurate — and has parallels in today’s U.S. health industry.

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In Caring For Sickest Infants, Doctors Tap Parents For Tough Calls

By Jenny Gold November 17, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Doctors were once unquestioned authorities on how aggressively to treat the sickest and most premature babies. Now, they increasingly include parents in these wrenching choices.

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A Sick Newborn, A Loving Family And A Litany Of Wrenching Choices

By Jenny Gold November 16, 2015 KFF Health News Original

In deciding how far to go in treating their very sick and premature baby, one San Francisco couple acted out of hope, not always in sync with doctors and nurses.

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Urgent Care

By Jenny Gold September 14, 2015 KFF Health News Original

This model of care is one of the ways created by the Affordable Care Act to reduce health care costs while improving quality of care. You can also watch the accompanying video that explains ACOs.

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Why Don’t We Have Mental Health Parity?

August 27, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The law says insurance companies must pay for mental health benefits the same as they do everything else. Addiction as much as diabetes. Depression as much as cancer. But around the country, consumers are taking their insurers to court saying the companies are refusing to pay up. The insurance providers say mental health is complicated, […]

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American Academy Of Pediatrics Recommends Individualized Counseling For Parents Of Premature Infants

By Jenny Gold August 31, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The pediatric academy suggests that decisions on whether to resuscitate extremely premature infants be based on the particular child’s chance of survival and the family’s goals – not simply gestational age.

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Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even In ‘Pace Car’ State

By Jenny Gold August 13, 2015 KFF Health News Original

California regulators have tried harder than most to make mental health parity laws work but it’s been tough to enforce the rules and gain the cooperation of insurers.

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Advocates Say Mental Health ‘Parity’ Law Is Not Fulfilling Its Promise

By Jenny Gold August 3, 2015 KFF Health News Original

A landmark federal law requiring insurers to cover mental illness as they would any other disease is not being followed or enforced, say patient advocates and attorneys. Insurers say they have taken “tremendous steps.”

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Medicare Yet To Save Money Through Heralded Medical Payment Model

By Jordan Rau and Jenny Gold September 14, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The government expected accountable care organizations to save Medicare millions by now, but the program is falling short of targets, records show. KHN also has performance data for all 353 ACOs in 2014.

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Study: Highest-Charging U.S. Hospitals Are For-Profits, Concentrated In Florida

By Jenny Gold June 8, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Most of the 50 hospitals with the highest charges are in the South and about half are owned by for-profit Community Health Systems.

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Learning A New Health Insurance System The Hard Way

By Jenny Gold May 14, 2015 KFF Health News Original

A Sacramento couple struggled to take advantage of subsidized health care coverage through Covered California in 2014 – facing one glitch after another. This year, they are more savvy about navigating the system.  

 

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Rule Proposed On Providing Mental Health ‘Parity’ In Medicaid Program

By Jenny Gold April 7, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Seven years after passing a mental health parity law, the federal government issues its first proposal on how public programs such as Medicaid and CHIP should comply.

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Battle For Mental Health Parity Produces Mixed Results

By Jenny Gold April 6, 2015 KFF Health News Original

Some of the obvious problems, such as separate deductibles for mental health care, have been eliminated. But advocates are concerned about more subtle insurance processes, such as reviews of medical necessity, that could be hampering coverage.

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Ritual, Not Science, Keeps The Annual Physical Alive

By Jenny Gold April 6, 2015 KFF Health News Original

While most Americans believe it is important to have a physical every year, the evidence suggests otherwise.

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Blue Shield of California Loses Its State Tax Exemption

By Jenny Gold March 18, 2015 KFF Health News Original

The unheralded move by California tax authorities last August may leave the insurer on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in taxes dating back to 2013. Blue Shield of California is protesting the action.

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