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Coast-to-Coast Health Care Woe: Cost

By Jenny Gold June 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

On a reporter’s cross country road trip, Americans talk about all the health policy highlights

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What’s A Surgeon’s Role In An ACO? Not Much So Far, Survey Says

By Jenny Gold June 5, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Accountable Care Organizations have given little attention to surgery in the early years of the Medicare program, choosing to focus instead on managing chronic conditions and reducing hospital readmissions. That’s according to a case study and survey published this week in the journal Health Affairs. The authors conducted case studies at four ACOs in 2012 […]

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Parents Of Mentally Ill Adult Children Frustrated By Privacy Law

By Jenny Gold June 5, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Even if parents are providing health insurance, they often can’t find out about what’s happening when their adult children suffer from severe mental illnesses.

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Medicare & Aging News From KFF Health News

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KFF Health News has had a variety of coverage about Medicare, long-term care and other issues affecting seniors’ quality of care and life. Below is a complete list of our 2014 coverage. See Stories Published In: 2013 | 2012 KFF Health News’s coverage of aging and long-term care issues is produced with support from The […]

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With Medical Debts Rising, Doctors Are More Aggressive About Payments

By Jenny Gold April 25, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Between 2008 and 2012, multispecialty practices saw their bad debt go up 14 percent, according to a recent survey, and some have begun to change their business practices in response.

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Report: Jails House 10 Times More Mentally Ill Than State Hospitals

By Jenny Gold April 8, 2014 KFF Health News Original

In 44 states and the District of Columbia, at least one prison or jail holds more people with serious mental illnesses than the largest state psychiatric hospital, according to a report released Tuesday by the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs’ Association. Across the country, an estimated 356,268 people with mental illnesses including bipolar […]

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Consumers Get $10B In Subsidies For Health Coverage, Study Finds

By Jenny Gold March 27, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Americans have already qualified for about $10 billion in tax credits to help them purchase private health insurance this year through the Affordable Care Act, according to a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.) That’s an average of $2,890 for each of the 3.5 million people […]

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60,000 With HIV Left Uninsured In States Not Expanding Medicaid

By Jenny Gold March 4, 2014 KFF Health News Original

The Affordable Care Act is generally a win for people living with HIV and AIDS, about 30 percent of whom are uninsured. It offers new health insurance options — both private and public — to a group that had been largely locked out of the individual insurance market because of rules about preexisting conditions. In […]

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New ACA Insurance Causes Headaches In Some Doctors’ Offices

By Jenny Gold February 25, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Employees in some Texas practices spend hours on hold trying to verify that patients have new insurance.

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An Obamacare Report Card

By KFF Health News Editors January 24, 2014 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s Jenny Gold was on Boston’s WBUR’s On Point Thursday to talk about the latest developments with the health law — how many people have signed up and what they’re encountering in the process. Listen to audio of the conversation below or download it here.

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ACOs Saving Some Money, But Medicare Is Short On Details

By Jenny Gold January 31, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Accountable care organizations are saving some money, though what exactly that means is still unclear. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that overall, provider groups involved in Medicare ACO programs saved a total of $380 million in the first year. Sounds like a lot of money, but CMS declined to explain which […]

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To Schedule A Doc Visit, Get In Line

By Jenny Gold January 29, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Need to see a doctor? You may have to wait. A survey of physician practices in 15 metropolitan areas across the country, which was taken before the health law expanded coverage, found that the average wait time for a new patient to see a physician in five medical specialties was 18.5 days.  The longest waits were […]

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More About Treating Clubfoot

By Jenny Gold January 28, 2014 KFF Health News Original

We’ve had a lot of response from readers and listeners to our story on NPR’s Morning Edition on Monday, The Clubfoot Correction: How Parents Pushed For Better Treatment. Readers wrote that they or their children had received casting and boots-and-bars treatment for clubfoot. Some happened many decades ago—some fairly recently. We thought some more explanation […]

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In Western N.C., Getting Health Coverage Means Getting Creative

By Jenny Gold January 22, 2014 KFF Health News Original

A navigator helps people, like John Martin (above), who fall into coverage gap in Appalachia figure out ways to qualify for and receive Obamacare insurance subsidies.

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The Clubfoot Correction: How Parents Pushed For A Better Treatment

By Jenny Gold January 27, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Just a decade ago, 90 percent of babies born with clubfoot had extensive surgeries to correct it. Those surgeries often led to a lifetime of chronic pain. That has been replaced by a cheaper, noninvasive casting technique, championed by parents.

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How Much Does A New Hip Cost? Even The Surgeon Doesn’t Know

By Jenny Gold January 6, 2014 KFF Health News Original

What will a gallon of milk set you back? How about a new car? You probably have a rough idea. But what about a medical device — the kind that gets implanted during a knee or hip replacement? Chances are you have no clue. And you are not alone: The surgeons who implant those devices probably […]

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N.C. Navigator: We Didn’t Break The Rules

By Jenny Gold December 20, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Navigators aren’t allowed to mail paper applications for health insurance to the federal government on behalf of consumers. Kaiser Health News learned that the hard way after Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., cited an October KHN blog post in a report about risks of fraud among navigators. We incorrectly reported that navigators with North Carolina nonprofit […]

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How Palliative Care Helps: One Iowa Family’s Journey

By Jenny Gold December 16, 2013 KFF Health News Original

‘This is their life. They’re the boss,’ says Dr. Tim Ihrig of the palliative care department at UnityPoint hospital in Fort Dodge, Iowa. ‘It’s an honor to be on this journey.’

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Medicare & Aging News From KFF Health News — 2013

January 14, 2014 Page

KFF Health News has had a variety of coverage about Medicare, long-term care and other issues affecting seniors’ quality of care and life. Below is a complete list of our 2013 coverage. See Stories Published In: 2014 | 2012 KFF Health News’s coverage of aging and long-term care issues is produced with support from The […]

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Promises To Fix Mental Health System Still Unfulfilled

By Jenny Gold December 13, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Even for those with the will and drive to pursue treatment, the process remains difficult, frightening and full of holes. On the federal level, little has come from the task forces and promises that followed the Newtown shootings.

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