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Anti-Fraud Efforts Meet Real-World Test During ACA Enrollment Period

By Julie Appleby November 25, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The federal government put guardrails in place to limit unauthorized plan sign-ups and switches. But the changes could prove to be a burden to consumers.

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Misleading Ads Play Key Role in Schemes to Gin Up Unauthorized ACA Sign-Ups, Lawsuit Alleges

By Julie Appleby Updated July 22, 2024 Originally Published July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Misleading money-for-groceries ads helped lure people to call centers where some were enrolled in Affordable Care Act coverage — or switched from their existing plans — without their express permission, a new lawsuit alleges.

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In Montana, Conservative Groups See Chance To Kill Medicaid Expansion

By Katheryn Houghton October 31, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion ahead of a political fight over whether to keep the program.

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Will CMS Crack Down on Prior Authorization?

By Lauren Sausser January 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

There’s the Idaho doctor whose infant daughter developed a brain tumor. A woman in Southern California who waited months for an MRI before dying in the hospital. And a North Carolina patient who has trigeminal neuralgia — a condition so painful it’s commonly called the “suicide disease.” They all have something in common, aside from […]

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Montana Vows Changes to Avoid Delayed Contracts. Some Health Providers Still Await Back Pay.

By Katheryn Houghton January 31, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The head of Montana’s health department said the agency is catching up on a months-long backlog of contracts with organizations that connect people to medical care that left organizations without pay, halted some services, and triggered job cuts.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': New Year, New Congress, New Health Agenda

January 9, 2025 Podcast

Health is unlikely to be a top priority for the new GOP-led 119th Congress and President-elect Donald Trump. But it’s likely to play a key supporting role, with an abortion bill already scheduled for debate in the Senate. Meanwhile, it’s unclear when and how the new Congress will deal with the bipartisan bills jettisoned from the previous Congress’ year-end omnibus measure — including a major deal to rein in the power of pharmacy benefit managers. In this “catch up on all the news you missed” episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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Olympic Dream Dashed After Bike Crash and Nightmare Medical Bill Over $200K

By Samantha Young July 29, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A bicyclist from California competed in a Pennsylvania race that could have landed him in this month’s Tokyo Olympics. Instead, a crash on the velodrome track landed him in two hospitals where his out-of-state, out-of-network surgeries garnered huge bills.

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Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

By Phil Galewitz January 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans in Washington are working on plans to shrink Medicaid, the nearly $900-billion-a-year government health insurance program that covers 1 in 5 Americans.

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How Two States Reveal a Deeper Divide on Insuring Kids’ Health

June 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Arizona and Florida lawmakers saw trouble ahead for children in 2023, with states slated — as the covid-19 pandemic waned — to resume disenrolling ineligible people from Medicaid. So, legislators in both states voted to expand a safety net known as the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which covers those 18 and younger in […]

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California Expanded Medi-Cal to Unauthorized Residents. The Results Are Mixed.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez November 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California this year completed its Medi-Cal expansion to include income-eligible residents regardless of their immigration status. This final installment of the “Faces of Medi-Cal” series profiles three of those newly eligible patients and how coverage has affected their health.

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Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400

By Rachana Pradhan November 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. The cost could be much higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it all.

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Trump Team Faces Key Legal Decision That Could Put Mental Health Parity in Peril

By Aneri Pattani Updated May 13, 2025 Originally Published May 9, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce laws requiring parity in insurance coverage of mental and physical health care.

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PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51.

By Andy Miller October 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Criticism of prescription drug middlemen has intensified recently in the wake of a federal agency’s actions and legislative reform attempts. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, though, vetoed a related bill that would have helped independent pharmacies, citing the unfunded cost of the move.

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Biden Administration Blocks Two Private Sector Enrollment Sites From ACA Marketplace

By Julie Appleby August 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Regulators have been under the gun to curb unauthorized Obamacare enrollment and switching of plans. Separately, a pending lawsuit was amended with additional defendants and new allegations regarding tactics to garner greater ACA sales commissions.

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Mary Lou Retton’s Explanation of Health Insurance Takes Some Somersaults

By Julie Appleby January 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The gold-medal gymnast’s explanation of why she remained uninsured has health policy experts doing mental gymnastics — because it makes little sense.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': On Abortion Rights, Ohio Is the New Kansas

August 10, 2023 Podcast

Nearly a year to the day after Kansas voters surprised the nation by defeating an anti-abortion ballot question, Ohio voters defeated a similar, if cagier, effort to limit access in that state. This week, they rejected an effort to raise the threshold for approval of future ballot measures from a simple majority, which would have made it harder to protect abortion access with yet another ballot question come November. Meanwhile, the number of Americans without health insurance has dropped to an all-time low, though few noticed. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Emmarie Huetteman of KFF Health News join KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, about how the “Medicaid unwinding” is going, as millions have their eligibility for coverage rechecked.

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Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing ‘National Scandal’ of Elder Homelessness

By Felice J. Freyer August 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

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Midwives Blame California Rules for Hampering Birth Centers Amid Maternity Care Crisis

By Ronnie Cohen January 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Birth centers, where midwives deliver babies with emergency backup from hospitals, can offer an alternative for families as hospitals close maternity units. But the state’s stiff regulations and what many call a dysfunctional licensing process are hobbling new initiatives and forcing some facilities to shut down.

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Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ Many States Wind Up Expanding

By Phil Galewitz Updated September 24, 2024 Originally Published August 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The end of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage protections coincided with changes in more than a dozen states to expand coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women, and the incarcerated.

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A Mom Owed Nearly $102,000 for Hospital Care. Her State Attorney General Said to Pay Up.

By Fred Clasen-Kelly July 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As politicians bash privately run hospitals for their aggressive debt collection tactics, consumer advocates say one North Carolina family’s six-figure medical bill is an example of how state attorneys general and state-operated hospitals also can harm patients financially.

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