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Dentists Chip Away at Uninsured Problem by Offering Patients Membership Plans

By Phil Galewitz September 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The plans are designed for people who don’t get dental coverage through their jobs and can’t afford an individual plan. For about $300 to $400 a year, patients receive certain preventive services at no charge and other procedures at a discount.

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States Have Yet to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Federal Dollars to Tackle Covid Health Disparities

By Phil Galewitz and Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead May 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from covid. But a KHN review shows public health agencies across the country have been slow to spend it.

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States Pull Back on Covid Data Even Amid Delta Surge

By Andy Miller August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As covid case numbers rise nationwide, Georgia and some other states have restricted the case count data they share publicly.

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Una prueba rápida negativa no significa que se está libre de covid

By Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz January 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Muchos ven a los kits caseros negativos como una “tarjeta de libertad”. Pero puede haber errores, y también infecciones futuras.

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How Not to Use Rapid Covid Tests

By Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz January 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Although at-home antigen testing remains a useful tool, experts warn it is often used inappropriately and can provide false confidence for people concerned about safety.

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Beneficiarios de Medicaid se vacunan mucho menos contra covid

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Si bien más de 202 millones de estadounidenses están vacunados al menos en parte contra covid, casi el 30% de las personas mayores de 12 años siguen sin vacunarse. Las encuestas muestran que los más pobres tienen menos probabilidades de recibir una vacuna.

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Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.

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Jaw Surgery Takes a $27,119 Bite out of One Man’s Budget

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A Seattle patient discovers the hard way that you can still hit a lifetime limit for certain types of care. And health plans can vary a lot from one job to the next, even if the insurer is the same.

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Apple, Bose and Others Pump Up the Volume on Hearing Aid Options, Filling Void Left by FDA

By Phil Galewitz August 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A 2017 law designed to help lower the cost of hearing aids mandated that federal officials set rules for a new class of devices consumers could buy without needing to see an audiologist. But those regulations are still on hold.

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Missouri Takes Months to Process Medicaid Applications — Longer Than Law Allows

By Bram Sable-Smith and Phil Galewitz February 18, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Missouri has more people waiting to have their Medicaid applications processed than it has approved since the expansion of the federal-state health insurance program. Although most states process Medicaid applications within a week, Missouri is taking, on average, more than two months. Patient advocates fear that means people will stay uninsured longer, leading them to postpone care or get stuck with high medical bills.

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Record Number of Americans Sign Up for ACA Health Insurance

By Phil Galewitz and Andy Miller December 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Nearly 14 million Americans have enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace health plans for next year — a record since the health law’s coverage expansion took effect in 2014. A boost in subsidies marketing and assistance in navigating the process increased the rolls of the insured.

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“Sabiduría y miedo” llevan al 90% de los adultos mayores de EE.UU. a vacunarse contra covid

By Phil Galewitz August 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

La pandemia ha sido especialmente cruel para los adultos mayores. Casi el 80% de las muertes ocurrieron entre personas de 65 años y más. Millones estuvieron aislados en residencias y en sus casas por meses.

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‘Wisdom and Fear’ Lead 90% of U.S. Seniors to Covid Vaccines

By Phil Galewitz August 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The success in getting shots to older adults is likely due to states prioritizing that effort when the vaccines became available and motivation among the elderly after the virus killed so many in their age group.

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Amid Covid Booster Debate, West Virginia to Check Immunity of Vaccinated Nursing Home Residents

By Phil Galewitz July 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The state says it will look at the levels of disease-fighting antibodies among nursing home residents vaccinated against covid, which could help indicate whether they need a booster shot.

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Journalists Broach Topics From Vaccines and Super Bowl to True Love

February 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Uninsured in South Would Win Big in Democrats’ Plan, but Hospitals Fear Funding Loss

By Phil Galewitz and Andy Miller November 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The latest iteration of President Joe Biden’s social-spending package would close the health insurance gap for at least 2.2 million people, making a huge difference especially in the South, where political opposition has blocked Medicaid expansion.

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Desperate for Home Care, Seniors Often Wait Months With Workers in Short Supply

By Phil Galewitz June 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The covid pandemic and President Joe Biden’s agenda — a planned $400 billion infusion of support — have focused national attention on the need to expand home- and community-based long-term care services designed to keep people out of nursing homes. But the need far outpaces the staffing.

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Hospitals, Insurers Invest Big Dollars to Tackle Patients’ Social Needs

By Phil Galewitz June 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Eager to control costs, health systems and insurers are trying to address patients’ social needs such as food insecurity, transportation and housing. Yet, after years of testing, there’s slim evidence these efforts pay off.

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Pandemia eleva el número de beneficiarios de Medicaid a más de 80 millones

By Phil Galewitz June 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Las últimas cifras de inscripción al Medicaid muestran que creció de 71,3 millones de miembros en febrero de 2020, cuando la pandemia comenzaba en los Estados Unidos, a 80,5 millones en enero, según un análisis de KFF de datos federales.

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Pandemic Swells Medicaid Enrollment to 80 Million People, a ‘High-Water Mark’

By Phil Galewitz June 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than 80 million Americans with low incomes were receiving health coverage through the federal-state program in January. The program now covers nearly 1 in 4 people nationwide.

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