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California’s Ambitious Medicaid Experiment Gets Tripped Up in Implementation

By Angela Hart December 5, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The health care insurers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups responsible for implementing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to infuse Medicaid with social services say their ability to serve vulnerable, low-income Californians is hamstrung.

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Jacob Gooch Sr. is standing on crutches in a room in his home. The room is dark, but he stands in a beam of light coming in through a window.

Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivors Await Promised Donations While Bills Pile Up

By Peggy Lowe, KCUR and Bram Sable-Smith June 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Families of the people hurt during the Feb. 14 mass shooting are carrying what one expert calls “victimization debt.” In the third story of our series “The Injured,” we learn about the strain of paying small and large medical bills and other out-of-pocket costs.

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Hollywood’s A-List Health Insurance Is Jeopardized by the Labor Strikes

By Jackie Fortiér, LAist September 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Hollywood actors and writers who qualify for their union health plans get a very good deal compared with other Americans. But not working during the strike threatens their eligibility in the system.

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Helene and CVS Land Double Whammy for 25,000 Patients Who Survive on IV Nutrition

By Arthur Allen Updated October 18, 2024 Originally Published October 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A Massachusetts woman ended up stranded in the hospital because CVS stopped providing the IV nutrition she needs to survive at home. Without it, she’d starve.

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When a Quick Telehealth Visit Yields Multiple Surprises Beyond a Big Bill

By Darius Tahir December 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

For the patient, it was a quick and inexpensive virtual appointment. Why it cost 10 times what she expected became a mystery.

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The New Covid Vaccine Is Out. Why You Might Not Want To Rush To Get It.

By Arthur Allen and Eliza Fawcett, Healthbeat and Rebecca Grapevine, Healthbeat Updated September 5, 2024 Originally Published August 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Although public health officials recommend the newly approved covid vaccine for everyone 6 months and older, it may make more sense to wait until closer to the holiday season.

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What One Expectant Mom’s Effort To Get an RSV Shot Says About Health Policy

By Elisabeth Rosenthal November 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Today we bring you the story of a patient seeking the RSV vaccine — and how her frustrating journey illustrates why it can be so hard in the United States to get an important medicine recommended by federal regulators. Hannah Fegley of Silver Spring, Md., says she spent seven hours on the phone last month […]

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Who Polices Hospitals Merging Across Markets? States Give Different Answers

By Samantha Liss September 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Increasingly, hospitals are merging across separate markets within states. It’s a move that health economists and the Federal Trade Commission have been closely watching, as evidence shows such mergers raise prices for patients with no improvement in care.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: The ACA Turns 14

March 21, 2024 Podcast

Saturday marks the 14th anniversary of the still somewhat embattled Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra joins host Julie Rovner to discuss the accomplishments of the health law — and the challenges it still faces. Also this week, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Mary Agnes Carey of KFF Health News join Rovner to discuss what should be the final funding bill for HHS for fiscal 2024, next week’s Supreme Court oral arguments in a case challenging abortion medication, 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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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Abortion — Again — At the Supreme Court

April 24, 2024 Podcast

For the second time in as many months, the Supreme Court heard arguments in an abortion case. This time, the justices are being asked to decide whether a federal law that requires emergency care in hospitals can trump Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. Meanwhile, the federal government, for the first time, will require minimum staffing standards for nursing homes. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ 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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At Trump’s GOP Convention, There’s Little To Be Heard on Health Care

By Phil Galewitz July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Republicans were once the party of Obamacare repeal and abortion opposition. They’ve said little about either issue in Milwaukee.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Too Big To Fail? Now It’s ‘Too Big To Hack’

April 18, 2024 Podcast

Congress this week had the chance to formally air grievances over the cascading consequences of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and lawmakers from both major parties agreed on one culprit: consolidation in health care. Plus, about a year after states began stripping people from their Medicaid rolls, a new survey shows nearly a quarter of adults who were disenrolled are now uninsured. Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Mary Agnes Carey to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner interviews Caroline Pearson of the Peterson Health Technology Institute.

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Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients

By Susan Jaffe October 5, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Software sifts through millions of medical records to match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics and then predicts what kind of care an individual will need and for how long. New federal rules will ensure human experts are part of the process.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Underinsured Is the New Uninsured

September 14, 2023 Podcast

The percentage of working-age adults with health insurance went up and the uninsured rate dropped last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week. There isn’t much suspense about which way the uninsured rate is now trending, as states continue efforts to strip ineligible beneficiaries from their Medicaid rolls. But is the focus on the uninsured obscuring the struggles of the underinsured? Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico join KFF Health News’ Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these issues and more.

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She Paid Her Husband’s Hospital Bill. A Year After His Death, They Wanted More Money.

By Samantha Liss August 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A widow encountered a perplexing reality in medical billing: Providers can come after patients to collect well after a bill has been paid.

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FTC Chief Says Tech Advancements Risk Health Care Price Fixing

By Julie Rovner and David Hilzenrath April 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Technological advances including the widespread use of algorithms make it easier for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating, Lina Khan said at a KFF event.

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An Arm and a Leg: ‘Your Money or Your Life’: This Doctor Wrote the Book on Medical Debt

By Dan Weissmann November 9, 2023 Podcast

What happens when you can’t afford the health care you need? On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” hear from emergency medicine physician and historian Luke Messac about the history of medical debt collection in the United States.

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Battleground Wisconsin: Voters Feel Nickel-and-Dimed by Health Care Costs

By Angela Hart June 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In the swing state of Wisconsin, the cost and availability of health care have emerged as key issues. Voters there say prescriptions, procedures, and health insurance policies are too expensive, and must be addressed by the next president, whether Republican or Democrat.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: The Open Enrollment Mixing Bowl

October 19, 2023 Podcast

Open enrollment for Medicare beneficiaries with private health plans began Oct. 15, to be followed Nov. 1 by open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The selection for both is large — often too large to be navigated easily alone. And people who choose incorrectly can end up with unaffordable medical bills. Meanwhile, those on both sides of the abortion issue are looking to Ohio’s November ballot measure on abortion to see whether anti-abortion forces can break their losing streak in statewide ballot questions since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

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In Fight Over Medicare Payments, the Hospital Lobby Shows Its Strength

By Phil Galewitz and Colleen DeGuzman February 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Medicare pays hospitals about double what it pays other providers for the same services. The hospital lobby is fighting hard to make sure a switch to “site-neutral payments” doesn’t become law.

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