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A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It

By Angela Hart July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Healthcare in Action, a California medical group that exclusively serves homeless people, has tapped into growing demand and funding for street medicine services. Three years in, the innovative nonprofit is raking in revenue and serving thousands of people who otherwise might flock to the hospital for high-cost care.

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Seeking Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs, Pharma Giant Courts Black Influencers

By Rachana Pradhan August 8, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Novo Nordisk, the dominant company in the multibillion-dollar market for weight loss drugs, focuses on Black lawmakers and opinion leaders to spread the message that obesity is a chronic disease that needs treatment.

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics

By Darius Tahir and Daniel Chang November 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Candidates see former President Donald Trump’s embrace of his administration’s covid-19 vaccine policies as an opportunity to gain ground. So far, their efforts haven’t found traction.

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This Panel Will Decide Whose Medicine to Make Affordable. Its Choice Will Be Tricky.

By Markian Hawryluk May 25, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Colorado’s new Prescription Drug Affordability Board could cap what health plans and consumers pay for certain medications starting next year. The process will pit patient groups against one another.

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Senate Passes Bill That Puts A Few More Months On The Shutdown Clock

November 16, 2023 Morning Briefing

The House and Senate have now both approved a stopgap funding measure that avoids a federal government shutdown around the holidays. Health care program extensions largely fall under the earlier of the two next deadlines imposed by the measure.

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ER’s Error Lands a 4-Year-Old in Collections (For Care He Didn’t Receive)

By Daniel Chang March 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child’s name on the bill, not hers.

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Tribal Nations Invest Opioid Settlement Funds in Traditional Healing To Treat Addiction

By Aneri Pattani and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 15, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from settlements with companies that made or sold prescription painkillers. Some are investing it in sweat lodges, statistical models, and insurance-billing staffers.

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Alaska Is One Step Closer To Legalizing Subscription-Based Health Care

April 12, 2024 Morning Briefing

State lawmakers have approved a bill that would allow primary care providers to offer care based on a monthly fee, the Anchorage Daily News reported. It’s unclear whether Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy will sign the bill.

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The Case of the Two Grace Elliotts: A Medical Billing Mystery

By Mark Kreidler December 21, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A health system charged a woman for a shoulder replacement at a hospital across the country that she had not visited for years. She didn’t receive the care, but she did receive the bill — and the medical records of a stranger.

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LA County Invests Big in Free Virtual Mental Health Therapy for K-12 Students

By Molly Castle Work December 12, 2023 KFF Health News Original

California is spending almost $5 billion to address a growing youth mental health crisis. In Los Angeles County, a contract with teletherapy provider Hazel Health is funding free therapy sessions for all interested students. School districts are grateful for the additional support, but express concerns about the remote arrangement.

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The New Vaccines and You: Americans Better Armed Than Ever Against the Winter Blechs

By Amy Maxmen October 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Flu, covid, and respiratory viruses kill thousands of Americans each year, but the latest batch of vaccines could save lives.

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Gov. Greg Gianforte, surrounded by Republican lawmakers, speaks at a bill signing ceremony on the steps of the State Capitol, in Helena, MT. Press huddles in front of the podium he speaks from with microphones and cameras.

Montana, an Island of Abortion Access, Preps for Consequential Elections and Court Decisions

By Arielle Zionts March 14, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A 25-year-old state Supreme Court ruling protects abortion rights in conservative Montana. That hasn’t stopped Republicans and anti-abortion advocates from trying to institute a ban.

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As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis Cracks, Fallout Spreads

By Renuka Rayasam and Markian Hawryluk and Samantha Young December 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Major policy changes and disavowals have made this a watershed year for curbing the use of the discredited “excited delirium” diagnosis to explain deaths in police custody. Now the ripple effects are spreading across the country into court cases, state legislation, and police training classes.

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Thousands Face Medicaid Whiplash in South Dakota and North Carolina

By Arielle Zionts May 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of South Dakotans are being knocked off Medicaid, only to be eligible to requalify several months later. Even more enrollees are likely to experience a temporary loss of coverage in North Carolina.

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Adult Children Discuss the Trials of Caring for Their Aging Parents

By Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau November 14, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The financial and emotional toll of providing and paying for long-term care is wreaking havoc on the lives of millions of Americans. Read about how a few families are navigating the challenges, in their own words.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Abortion and SCOTUS, Together Again

December 14, 2023 Podcast

The Supreme Court agreed this week to hear its first major case on abortion since overturning Roe v. Wade — one that could restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, even in states where abortion remains legal. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in the House and Senate finally moved to renew health programs that expired in October — but it’s likely too late to finish the job in 2023. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Riley Griffin of Bloomberg News, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Jen Golbeck, a University of Maryland professor and social media superstar, about her new book, “The Purest Bond,” which lays out the science of the human-canine relationship.

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Most People Dropped in Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Never Tried to Renew Coverage, Utah Finds

By Phil Galewitz January 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Medicaid officials in Utah conducted a survey to answer a burning question in health policy: What happened to people dropped from the program in the post-pandemic “unwinding”?

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How Will Rural Americans Fare During Medicaid Unwinding? Experts Fear They’re on Their Own

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez September 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As states review their Medicaid rolls after the expiration of a pandemic-era prohibition against kicking recipients off the government insurance program, experts say the lack of help available to rural Americans in navigating insurance options puts them at greater risk of losing health coverage than people in metropolitan areas.

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California Aims to Maximize Health Insurance Subsidies for Workers During Labor Disputes

By Annie Sciacca November 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Workers who lose employer-based health coverage during a strike or lockout will have access to a full-subsidy plan through Covered California.

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‘A System in Crisis’: Dysfunctional Federal Disability Programs Force the Poor to Pass Up Money

By Fred Clasen-Kelly May 12, 2023 KFF Health News Original

With little or no income, disability applicants are seeking Social Security early retirement benefits even though it could cost them tens of thousands of dollars in future income, lawyers say.

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