Journalists Track Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis and Put Catholic Hospitals Under the Scope
March 23, 2024
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KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Journalists Give Rundown on Bird Flu Risks, HIV Rates, and the Fate of Shuttered Hospitals
September 7, 2024
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on state and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Journalists Discuss African Mpox Upsurge, EpiPen Alternative, and Medicaid Unwinding
August 17, 2024
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and state media this week to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Journalists Unpack Facility School Closures and Federal Investment in Crisis Hotlines
May 20, 2023
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KFF Health News 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.
Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care
February 9, 2023
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Featured Stories A quote from a source in the series Video Explainer More Stories in the Series Where Else is Private Equity Making Inroads? A quote from a source in the series Explore the Database KFF Health News analyzed 600 deals by 25 firms PitchBook identified as the top private equity investors in health care. […]
Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash
April 20, 2023
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Featured Story Localize the Data If you are a journalist who wants to investigate opioid settlement transparency data for your area, here’s how you can do that. Share Your Settlement Story Do you have concerns about how your state or locality is using the opioid settlement funds? Are they doing something effective that other places […]
Safety-Net Health Clinics Cut Services and Staff Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding’
By Katheryn Houghton
May 30, 2024
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One of Montana’s largest safety-net health centers announced it will lay off nearly 10% of its workforce because of revenue losses it attributes to vast Medicaid disenrollments. Such cuts are happening elsewhere too.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Finally Fixing the ‘Family Glitch’
October 13, 2022
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The Biden administration has decided to try to fix the so-called “family glitch” in the Affordable Care Act without an act of Congress. The provision has prevented workers’ families from getting subsidized coverage if an employer offer is unaffordable. Meanwhile, Medicare’s open enrollment period begins Oct. 15, and private Medicare Advantage plans are poised to cover more than half of Medicare’s 65 million enrollees. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read.
New Colorado Gun Law Aims To Shore Up Victim Services
By Rae Ellen Bichell
December 18, 2024
KFF Health News Original
A new tax on guns and ammunition in Colorado is set to take effect in the spring. Voters approved the tax, with most of the proceeds going to support services for crime victims and other social programs.
Home Sweet Parking Lot: Some Hospitals Welcome RV Living for Patients, Families, and Workers
By Christina Saint Louis
July 27, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Medical and RV industry professionals say hospitals that offer RV parking are easing access to health care for some patients who drive long distances for treatment, like many rural residents.
Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation
By Rae Ellen Bichell
September 6, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Social media has helped spread the word about a treatment that involves getting Botox in the neck. It’s for a condition that’s gaining awareness but still often dismissed: the inability to burp.
Gracias a Reddit, un nuevo diagnóstico se está extendiendo por todo el país
By Rae Ellen Bichell
September 6, 2024
KFF Health News Original
La incapacidad de eructar puede causar hinchazón, dolor, gorgoteos en el cuello y el pecho, y flatulencias excesivas mientras el aire acumulado busca una salida alternativa.
With Only Gloves To Protect Them, Farmworkers Say They Tend Sick Cows Amid Bird Flu
By Rae Ellen Bichell
August 27, 2024
KFF Health News Original
A Colorado picnic celebrated Farmworker Appreciation Day. But some dairy workers there said they aren’t feeling appreciated: They don’t have basic protective gear, even as bird flu spreads through area farms.
Trabajadores dicen que cuidan a vacas enfermas en medio de la gripe aviar usando solo guantes
By Rae Ellen Bichell
August 27, 2024
KFF Health News Original
En Colorado, los departamentos de Salud y Agricultura dan equipos de protección gratis. Pero dicen que hasta ahora solo el 13% de los productores en tambos los han solicitado.
Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor
By Rae Ellen Bichell
July 11, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Colorado defended its high disenrollment rates following the covid crisis by saying that what goes up must come down. Advocates and researchers disagree.
Colorado expulsó a beneficiarios de Medicaid como si fuera un estado republicano
By Rae Ellen Bichell
July 11, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Es el único estado demócrata entre un grupo de estados republicanos con altas tasas de desafiliación, que incluye a Idaho, Montana, Texas y Utah, en un proceso de Medicaid que comenzó en la primavera de 2023.
FDA Urged To Relax Decades-Old Tissue Donation Restrictions for Gay and Bisexual Men
By Rae Ellen Bichell
May 24, 2024
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Federal regulations prevent gay and bisexual men from donating tissue, such as corneas, ligaments, and blood vessels. Similar restrictions have been relaxed or lifted for donated blood and organs in recent years.
Reclaman revisar viejas restricciones que previenen que hombres gay y bisexuales donen tejidos
By Rae Ellen Bichell
May 24, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Defensores piden que las pautas para los tejidos donados por hombres gays y bisexuales sean las mismas que aplican al resto del cuerpo humano.
Cómo la muerte de un amigo hizo que adolescentes de Colorado se volvieran activistas contra las sobredosis
By Rae Ellen Bichell
March 1, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Los amigos de un joven muerto por envenenamiento por fentanilo impulsan una ley estatal para que estudiantes de secundaria puedan llevar Narcan en sus mochilas sin riesgo de ser castigados.
How a Friend’s Death Turned Colorado Teens Into Anti-Overdose Activists
By Rae Ellen Bichell
March 1, 2024
KFF Health News Original
High school students in Colorado are pushing for a change they say is necessary to combat fentanyl poisoning: ensuring students can’t get in trouble for carrying the overdose reversal drug naloxone wherever they go, including at school.
