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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Boosting Confusion

November 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Federal health officials appear poised to extend a recommendation for covid boosters to all adults, following moves by some governors and mayors to broaden the eligible booster pool as caseloads rise. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration finally has a nominee to head the agency: former FDA chief Robert Califf. And Medicare premiums for consumers will likely rise substantially in 2022, partly due to the approval of a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Tami Luhby of CNN, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Dan Weissmann, host of the “An Arm and a Leg” podcast.

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Texas Providers See Increased Interest in Birth Control Since Near-Total Abortion Ban

By Amanda Michelle Gomez November 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

But providers do not expect contraception to blunt the law’s effects.

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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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The War on Cancer at 50: The Origin Story Begins With a Socialite Citizen-Lobbyist

By Gabrielle Emanuel, WBUR January 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

After the National Cancer Act became law 50 years ago, cancer went from shameful taboo to one of the best-funded areas of medicine. Much of the credit for this transformation goes to one woman, Mary Lasker.

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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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Teen Traveled to Philly to Get Vaccinated Against His Parents’ Wishes

By Nina Feldman, WHYY February 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Nicolas Montero is 16, and that’s old enough to get a vaccine on his own in Philadelphia. Vaccine regulations vary around the country and, in more than a dozen states, teens can consent to their own medical care.

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At an Overrun ICU, ‘the Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways’

By Nick Ehli September 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Billings Clinic in Montana is past the tipping point as it looks for places to add intensive care unit beds and is on the cusp of rationing care to deal with the surge of sick covid patients in a state with significant anti-vaccination sentiment.

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5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests

By Damon Darlin January 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Telling insurance companies to pay for rapid covid-19 tests is just the latest covid-related cost the federal government expects them to bear. But who really ends up paying for it?

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Prepping For A Possible Pandemic

February 27, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Official Washington is sitting up and taking notice of the threat from the novel coronavirus as Congress and the Trump administration prepare for a potential pandemic. Meanwhile, the Democratic candidates for president are still arguing about “Medicare for All.” Joanne Kenen of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Shefali Luthra of Kaiser Health News join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews NPR’s Sydney Lupkin about the latest “Bill of the Month” installment.

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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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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

By Susan Jaffe January 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

If federal officials accept a court’s decision, some patients will get a chance to seek refunds for their nursing home and other expenses.

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Democrats’ Plans to Expand Medicare Benefits May Pinch Advantage Plans’ Funding

By Michelle Andrews October 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As lawmakers weigh new spending provisions to cover dental, hearing and vision services for Medicare beneficiaries, a group supporting Medicare Advantage plans is airing commercials that raise concerns about the funding for those private plans.

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Feds to Nix Work Requirements in Montana Medicaid Expansion Program

By Andrea Halland August 5, 2021 KFF Health News Original

State health officials say the federal government will likely reject any work or community engagement requirements, which were key to Republican lawmakers agreeing to extend the program that insures 100,000 low-income Montana adults.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Vaccine Approval Moves the Needle on Covid

August 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The FDA’s formal approval of the first vaccine to prevent covid-19 may or may not prompt doubters to go out and get shots, but it has clearly prompted employers to make vaccination a work requirement. Meanwhile, moderates and liberals in the U.S. House put aside their differences long enough to keep a giant social-spending bill on track, at least for now. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.

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California Takes a Nibble at Offering Food Stamps to Undocumented Immigrants

By Anna Almendrala July 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Food insecurity soared during the pandemic, including among unauthorized immigrants, who are not eligible for federally funded food stamps. California’s Democratic lawmakers want to expand the benefit to that population, but opponents cite the massive ongoing cost to the state.

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Federal Vaccine Program Hasn’t Helped Those Whose Lives Were Altered by Covid Shot

By Arthur Allen August 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A national vaccine court has paid out billions to families who could prove their kids were injured by vaccines. But there’s only a skeletal program for the rare victims of covid vaccination, raising concerns as the pressure for mandated shots grows.

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A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Patients

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio August 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Community Health Systems, a large, for profit hospital chain, shrank from more than 200 to 84 facilities. It is continuing to sue patients for hospitals that now exist as little more than legal entities.

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Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in Colorado

By Markian Hawryluk January 20, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Disasters have previously prompted special enrollment periods in California, Maine, and the South. Now, Colorado is extending the state insurance marketplace sign-up period by two months.

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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Is Open Season for Scammers

By Susan Jaffe November 11, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Medicare officials say complaints are rising from seniors lured into private plans with misleading information or enrolled without their consent. In response, officials have threatened to penalize the private companies selling Medicare Advantage and drug plans if they or agents working on their behalf mislead consumers.

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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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