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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: SCOTUS Decides An ACA Case. No, Not THAT Case.

April 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

The Supreme Court this week, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that insurers are due the roughly $12 billion that Congress several years ago tried to cut off in payments under the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors” provision. And while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in many places around the country, states are starting to reopen their economies at the urging of President Donald Trump and over objections of public health officials. Caitlin Owens of Axios and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN’s Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment about COVID testing that should have been free but was not.

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Covid Shots for Kids Are Scarce — And Demand Is Mixed — In Rural Montana

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR December 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Although covid vaccines have been available to children as young as 5 for more than a month, they’re not being offered in some rural Montana counties, and parents don’t know where to find them in others.

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‘Drinking Through a Lead Straw’ — $15B Approved to Fix Dangerous Water Pipes

By Sandy West November 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The infrastructure bill passed Friday funnels $15 billion into lead pipe remediation. Water quality experts say the cost of getting rid of all lead pipes could ultimately cost $60 billion. Still, some health advocates say the new funding will be transformative in allowing communities such as Houston’s Fifth Ward to fix its pipes.

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Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes Triggers Capitol Hill Questions — And a GAO Probe

By Victoria Knight April 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden decried these financial arrangements, which two members of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee had already asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate.

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Democrats Plan to Expand Medicare Hearing Benefits. What Can Consumers Expect?

By Rachana Pradhan November 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN answers questions for seniors about how this new benefit might work.

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Two Tennessee Abortion Clinics, Awaiting High-Court Ruling, Grapple With Uncertainty

By Victoria Knight June 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The landmark Roe v. Wade decision could soon be overturned. Two Knoxville-based providers of reproductive health care wonder how — and if — they will continue to serve their patients.

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Medicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions

By Jordan Rau October 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The federal government’s hospital penalty program finishes its first decade by lowering payments to nearly half the nation’s hospitals for readmitting too many Medicare patients within a month. Penalties, though often small, are credited with helping reduce the number of patients returning for another Medicare stay within 30 days.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Politics of Vaccine Mandates

October 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Like almost everything else associated with the covid-19 pandemic, partisans are taking sides over whether vaccines should be mandated. Meanwhile, Democrats on Capitol Hill are still struggling to find compromise in their effort to expand health insurance and other social programs. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jen Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews best-selling author Beth Macy about her book “Dopesick,” and the new Hulu miniseries based on it.

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New California Law Bans Harassment at Vaccination Sites, but Free Speech Concerns Persist

By Rachel Bluth October 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Effective immediately, it will be a misdemeanor in California to harass people on their way to get a covid, or any other, vaccine. But First Amendment experts say the new law violates free speech protections and could face a constitutional battle.

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Calls to Overhaul Methadone Distribution Intensify, but Clinics Resist

By Markian Hawryluk March 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic has shown that loosening the strict regulations on distributing methadone helps people recovering from addiction stay in treatment. But clinics with a financial stake in keeping the status quo don’t want to make permanent changes.

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Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care

By Markian Hawryluk July 29, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Private equity firms are seeing opportunities for profit in hospice care, once the domain of nonprofit organizations. The investment companies are transforming the industry — and might be jeopardizing patient care — in the process.

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12,000 Square Miles Without Obstetrics? It’s a Possibility in West Texas

By Charlotte Huff August 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Big Bend Regional Medical Center, the only hospital in a sparsely populated region of West Texas, announced that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit must close for days at a time and patients must go instead to a hospital an hour away.

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Should You Worry About Data From Your Period-Tracking App Being Used Against You?

By Hannah Norman and Victoria Knight May 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

After a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion was published May 2 suggesting that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned, social media users started worrying that their use of period-tracking apps could lead to trouble if they sought an abortion and lived in a state with strict limits or bans on the procedure.

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Hygienists Brace for Pitched Battles With Dentists in Fights Over Practice Laws

By Giles Bruce October 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In a battle reflecting turf wars around the country, Illinois dentists defeated legislation that would have allowed hygienists to practice in nursing homes and prisons where dental care can be scarce.

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New Montana Laws Enshrine Health Care Alternatives, for Better or Worse

By Andrea Halland June 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Direct primary care and health care sharing ministries can offer people more accessible or cheaper health care options, but they lack the benefits of traditional insurance and aren’t regulated.

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Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio January 10, 2022 KFF Health News Original

National data shows that Black Medicare patients and their families are not making the move to comfort care as often as white patients are. Experts speculate it’s related to spiritual beliefs and widespread mistrust in the medical system due to decades of discrimination.

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Addressing the ‘Trust Factor’: South Carolina Researchers Tackle Health Disparities Using Genetics

By Lauren Sausser June 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A new genetic research project underway in South Carolina aims to reduce health disparities between Black and white residents — such as cancer and cardiovascular disease rates — that have long ranked among the nation’s worst. But researchers face the challenge of recruiting 100,000 participants who reflect the diversity of South Carolina. And history isn’t on their side.

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After Miscarriages, Workers Have Few Guarantees for Time Off or Job-Based Help

By Bryce Covert January 26, 2022 KFF Health News Original

About a quarter of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Despite the large number of workers affected, no national laws protect them when they need time off to deal with the loss.

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At Urgent Care, He Got 5 Stitches and a Big Surprise: A Plastic Surgeon’s Bill for $1,040

By Rachana Pradhan August 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The Biden administration is weighing how to treat urgent care clinics as part of broad regulations banning surprise, out-of-network medical bills. At the heart of the matter: What counts as an emergency?

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HHS Proposal for Marketplace Plans Carries a Hefty Dose of Consumer Caution

By Julie Appleby January 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The Department of Health and Human Services issued preliminary rules regarding health insurance marketplaces that aim to deter fraudulent sign-ups for coverage. Experts say the agency’s action indicates a problem exists.

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