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Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients Cope and Monitor Treatment

By Darius Tahir June 24, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The interest, and investment, in coaching and encouragement is a curious turn for an industry that likes to boast of its billion-dollar pills and sophisticated artificial intelligence.

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Readers and Tweeters Remain Vigilant on Masking and Billing

By Terry Byrne March 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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Millions Are Stuck in Dental Deserts, With No Access to Oral Health Care

By Lauren Peace, Tampa Bay Times May 1, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Vulnerable and marginalized communities are getting left behind in dental deserts, where patient volume exceeds provider capacity or too few dentists are willing to serve the uninsured or those on Medicaid.

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Plan to Fix Postal Service Shifts New Retirees to Medicare — Along With Billions in Costs

By Michael McAuliff February 25, 2022 KFF Health News Original

After a years-long bitter partisan fight over reforming the U.S. Postal Service’s finances and service, congressional leaders say they have a compromise. The bill, which has won endorsements from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, would force future Postal Service retirees to use Medicare as their primary source of health coverage.

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Republicans in COVID Disarray

July 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump’s sobering view of COVID-19 didn’t last long – this week, he was back to pushing hydroxychloroquine, a drug that has been shown not to work in treating the virus. Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill are still scrambling to agree among themselves and with the White House on the next coronavirus relief bill, as both a moratorium on evictions and extra unemployment payments expire. And the debate over drug prices, which was going to be one of the biggest health issues of this election year, makes a brief appearance. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Markian Hawryluk, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” story about a surprise bill from a surprise surgical assistant.

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Buy and Bust: After Platinum Health Took Control of Noble Sites, All Hospital Workers Were Fired

By Sarah Jane Tribble September 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Two Missouri towns are without operating hospitals after private equity-backed Noble Health left both facilities mired in debt, lawsuits, and federal investigations. The hospitals’ new operator, Platinum Health, agreed to buy them in April for $2 and laid off the last employees in early September.

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South Dakota Voters Approved Medicaid Expansion, but Implementation May Not Be Easy

By Arielle Zionts November 10, 2022 KFF Health News Original

South Dakotans voted to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover thousands of additional low-income residents. But as other conservative states have shown, voter approval doesn’t always mean politicians and administrators will rush to implement the change.

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This Dental Device Was Sold to Fix Patients’ Jaws. Lawsuits Claim It Wrecked Their Teeth.

By Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News March 1, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A dental device called AGGA has been used on about 10,000 patients without FDA approval or proof that it works. In lawsuits, patients report irreparable harm. The AGGA’s inventor and manufacturer have denied all liability in court.

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Medi-Cal Will Cover Doulas at More Than Twice California’s Initial Proposed Rate

By Rachel Bluth June 21, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Under a budget passed by California lawmakers, the state will pay nonmedical workers who assist in pregnancy and labor up to $1,154 per birth through Medi-Cal, which is up significantly from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initial offer of $450. Though it’s more than what most other states pay, many doulas say it falls short of the $3,600 they sought.

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As Big Pharma Loses Interest in New Antibiotics, Infections Are Only Growing Stronger

By Arthur Allen July 15, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Existing drugs still treat most infections. But that has discouraged investment in new drugs that will be needed when — not if —the old ones fail.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Democrats May Lose on SCOTUS, But Hope to Win on ACA

October 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Barring something unexpected, Democrats in the Senate appear to lack the votes to block the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. So, instead they used the high-profile confirmation hearings to hammer on Republicans for again putting the Affordable Care Act in peril. Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call, Shefali Luthra of The 19th and Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, about public health challenges in dealing with COVID-19.

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‘An Arm and a Leg’: How to Fight Bogus Medical Bills Like a Bulldog

By Dan Weissmann August 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

When a colleague brings a medical billing problem to human resources director Steve Benasso — he goes to battle. “I am a bulldog on this stuff,” he said. In this episode, Benasso tells how he does it.

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Even Well-Intended Laws Can’t Protect Us From Inaccurate Provider Directories

By Bernard J. Wolfson July 26, 2022 KFF Health News Original

State and federal laws require health plans to offer accurate lists of participating doctors and facilities, but consumers still struggle to get timely appointments with providers.

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What the Polio Case in New York Tells Us About the End of Polio

By Arthur Allen July 29, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The Rockland County case isn’t expected to cause a major outbreak, but it shows how even this rare disease can pop up in undervaccinated communities.

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Listen: An Unsettling Investigation Into the Closure of a Chain of Pain Clinics

March 14, 2022 KFF Health News Original

KHN senior correspondents Jenny Gold and Anna Maria Barry-Jester joined KVPR’s Kathleen Schock on “Valley Edition” to discuss their investigation into the abrupt closure of one of California’s largest chain of pain clinics — and the patients left behind.

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Patients With Epilepsy Navigate Murky Unregulated CBD Industry

By Eric Berger July 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The FDA has approved a cannabis-derived drug, Epidiolex, to treat some forms of epilepsy. Now people who have other forms of the condition are using over-the-counter CBD products in hopes of taming their seizures. But doctors and patients worry about the unregulated world of CBD, in which product ingredients can be a mystery.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS Ruling Strips Power From Federal Health Agencies

June 28, 2024 Podcast

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies, rather than judges, the power to interpret ambiguous laws passed by Congress. Administrative experts say the decision will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business. Also, the court decided not to decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

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Colorado Doubles Down on Abortion Rights as Other States — And the High Court — Reconsider

By Rae Ellen Bichell March 29, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The Supreme Court is expected to overturn or weaken “Roe v. Wade.” If that happens, Colorado may become an abortion-access island, nearly surrounded by a sea of anti-abortion states. The state is bracing for impact, and advocates are trying to shore up its abortion defenses.

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KFF Health News Awards and Honors

By Kathleen Hayden January 28, 2021 Page

KFF Health News has been recognized repeatedly by our peers in journalism with an increasing number of awards honoring our reports on the American health care system. 2024 Pulitzer Prizes Public Service, Finalist: David Hilzenrath of KFF Health News and Jodie Fleischer of Cox Media Group for “Overpayment Outrage” series AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health […]

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Our 300th Episode!

June 1, 2023 Podcast

When KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” podcast launched in 2017, Republicans in Washington were engaged in an (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. The next six years would see a pandemic, increasingly unaffordable care, and a health care workforce experiencing unprecedented burnout. In the podcast’s 300th episode, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explores the past and possible future of the U.S. health care system with three prominent “big thinkers” in health policy: Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff Goldsmith of Health Futures, and Farzad Mostashari of Aledade.

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