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Doctor on Call? Lawmakers Debate How Much to Pay for Phone Appointments

By Rachel Bluth June 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Phone visits became an option for many Medicare and Medicaid patients during the pandemic. Now policymakers are deciding whether they’re worth the money.

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Texas Is Latest State To Attack Surprise Medical Bills

By Ashley Lopez, KUT June 18, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A new state law says hospitals and insurers will have to work it out among themselves when they can’t agree on a price — instead of sending huge bills to patients. “Bill of the Month” patient Drew Calver galvanized attention on the issue after he told his story to KHN, NPR and “CBS This Morning.”

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Direct Primary Care, With a Touch of Robin Hood

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco October 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Some doctors, sick of mainstream health care’s red tape, are finding refuge in practices that combine concierge medicine with charity care.

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Battle Brews Over Neutral Zone Where Border-Crossing Parties Rendezvous, Risking Infection

By Joanne Silberner April 2, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Peace Arch Park on the U.S.-Canadian border has become a rare place where families and friends on either side of the border can see one another in person. But it raises questions on covid safety as the two countries handle the pandemic differently.

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Firefighters on Front Lines, No Strangers to Risk, Push Back Against Covid Vaccine Mandates

By Sandy West September 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Among the people still reluctant to get vaccinated — and pushing against mandates — are firefighters, many of whom also respond to medical calls as paramedics and EMTs and have witnessed the ravages of the pandemic firsthand.

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Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.

By Christina Jewett November 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

About 21% of patients diagnosed with covid during a hospital stay died, according to data analyzed for KHN. In-hospital rates of spread varied widely and patients had no way of checking them.

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As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry

By Eric Berger July 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Missouri is the last state to create a monitoring program to help spot the misuse of prescription drugs. But some public health experts warn that the nation’s programs are forcing people addicted to opioids to seek deadlier street options.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: All I Want for Christmas Is a COVID Relief Bill

December 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Congress seems on the verge of finishing a long-delayed COVID-19 relief bill, which will reportedly include neither of the things each party wanted most — for Republicans, liability protections; for Democrats, funding for states and localities. That bill is likely to be tied to a package to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year and, possibly, include a fix for “surprise” medical bills that patients receive when they inadvertently receive care outside their insurance network. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Mary Agnes Carey of KHN join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner talks to Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Pacific Business Group on Health, about the future of employer-provided health insurance.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Pause and Effect on Covid Vaccines

April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Podcast panelists discuss a range of health policy developments, from the latest in the covid vaccination effort to the HHS budget, among other things.

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Push Is On for States to Ban Organ Transplant Discrimination

By Sara Reardon March 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

States are passing laws that would prevent people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities from being denied transplants solely because of their conditions.

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The Hard Realities of a ‘No Jab, No Job’ Mandate for Health Care Workers

By Christine Spolar June 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Despite a hearts-and-minds campaign and millions spent in incentives, managers struggle to get staffs vaccinated against covid. Some workers have threatened to quit over the pressure to get a shot, which employers can’t afford.

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From ‘Physician Assistant’ to Medicare, Readers and Tweeters Mince No Words

December 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

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

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: ACA Packs More Benefits — And More Confusion

March 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden includes a long list of new health benefits for consumers. But many eligible people may have difficulty taking advantage of them because of the interaction with the income tax system and a lack of expert guidance. Meanwhile, Democrats are debating internally about what should come next on the health agenda. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call and Rachana Pradhan of KHN join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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Democrats Eye Medicare Negotiations to Lower Drug Prices

By Emmarie Huetteman March 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Progressive and conservative Democratic lawmakers, as well as President Joe Biden, are in favor of authorizing federal officials to negotiate with drugmakers over what Medicare pays for at least some of the most expensive brand-name drugs and to base those prices on the drugs’ clinical benefits. Such a measure could put Republicans in the uncomfortable position of opposing an idea that most voters from both parties generally support.

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Pandemic-Related Paid Sick Days and Leave to Expire Dec. 31 — With No Extension in Sight

By Steven Findlay December 18, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Enacted in March, an emergency measure covers about half of full-time workers nationwide, permitting 10 days of paid sick leave for all who fall ill or need to quarantine, and 50 more days of extended leave for parents who need to care for a child at home due to COVID-related school or day care closures.

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Listen: Trump’s Plan To End ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ Bills

May 10, 2019 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump called for an end to the “unpleasant surprise” of certain medical bills on Thursday. NPR reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin covered the White House announcement, which featured two patients from the KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” series.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Open Enrollment, One More Time

February 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Keeping a campaign promise, President Joe Biden has reopened enrollment for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act on healthcare.gov — and states that run their own health insurance marketplaces followed suit. At the same time, the Biden administration is moving to revoke the Trump administration’s permission for states to impose work requirements for some adults on the Medicaid health insurance program. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also, Rovner interviews medical student Inam Sakinah, president of the new group Future Doctors in Politics.

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From Rotten Teeth to Advanced Cancer, Patients Feel the Effects of Treatment Delays

By Bruce Alpert April 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Health providers are seeing the consequences of pandemic-delayed preventive and emergency care, from longer hospital stays to more root canals.

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The Shock and Reality of Catching Covid After Being Vaccinated

By Steven Findlay April 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

At least 5,800 people have fallen ill or tested positive for covid two weeks or more after being fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. “I now tell everyone, including my colleagues, not to let their guard down.”

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Under New Cost-Cutting Medicare Rule, Same Surgery, Same Place, Different Bill

By Susan Jaffe March 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A Trump administration Medicare rule will push some hospital patients into a Catch-22: The government says several hundred procedures no longer need to be done in a hospital, but it did not approve them to be performed elsewhere. So patients will still need to use a hospital while not officially admitted — and may be charged more out-of-pocket for the care.

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