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Helicopters Rescued Patients in ‘Apocalyptic’ Flood. Other Hospitals Are at Risk, Too.

By Lauren Sausser and Holly K. Hacker December 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The helicopter evacuation of 70 people from a Tennessee hospital during Hurricane Helene is considered a success story. The building was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

Federal Panel Prescribes New Mental Health Strategy To Curb Maternal Deaths

By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock May 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States — including suicides and fatalities linked to substance use disorders — stem from mental health conditions. Now a federal task force has recommended strategies to help women who are at risk during or after pregnancy.

Watch: ‘Going It Alone’ — A Conversation About Growing Old in America

December 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Judith Graham, KFF Health News’ “Navigating Aging” columnist, talks with older adults who live alone by choice or circumstance. They share what it means to thrive in later years.

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics

By Darius Tahir and Daniel Chang November 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Candidates see former President Donald Trump’s embrace of his administration’s covid-19 vaccine policies as an opportunity to gain ground. So far, their efforts haven’t found traction.

Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

By Daniel Chang and Angela Hart November 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will square off in a first-of-its-kind debate on Nov. 30. KFF Health News compared the political rivals’ health care positions, showing how their policies have helped — or hindered — the health of their states’ residents.

‘Scared to Death’: Nurses and Residents Confront Rampant Violence in Dementia Care Facilities

By Jordan Rau August 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Clashes between residents — verbal, physical, and sexual — can be spontaneous and too unpredictable to prevent. But the chance of an altercation increases when memory care homes admit and retain residents they can’t manage, according to a KFF Health News examination of inspection and court records and interviews with researchers.

Mississippi Lacks Black Doctors, Even as Lawmakers Increasingly Target Diversity Programs

By Lauren Sausser July 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Administrators at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine are trying to recruit more Black students — and more Hispanic and Choctaw Nation students, for that matter. But they face several obstacles, including a recent swell of Republican opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health

By Amy Maxmen March 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Framed in the rhetoric of choice, Tennessee’s new law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and children’s health.

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt

By Noam N. Levey June 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man’s Organs — Until His Doctor Intervened

By Cara Anthony September 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A 22-year-old was shot in the head in St. Louis. As a surgical team prepared him for organ harvesting, his neurosurgeon raced to the operating room to stop it, saying that his patient had a chance at life. Today, the man is alive, sharing his story.

Watch: What Happens When Car and Health Insurance Collide

April 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN Editor-in-Chief Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal helps accident victims avoid pitfalls in seeking medical care — a conundrum profiled in KHN-NPR’s most recent Bill of the Month installment.

These Appalachia Hospitals Made Big Promises to Gain a Monopoly. They’re Failing to Deliver.

By Brett Kelman and Samantha Liss September 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Ballad Health, the only hospital system across a large swath of Tennessee and Virginia, has fallen short of quality-of-care and charity care obligations — even as it’s sued thousands of patients for unpaid bills.

Biden Administration’s Limit on Drug Industry Middlemen Backfires, Pharmacists Say

By Arthur Allen November 15, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A rule taking effect Jan. 1 was intended to stop one set of abuses by pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, but some pharmacists say it’s enabling these price brokers to simply do new things unfairly.

As Overdose Deaths Soar, DEA-Wary Pharmacies Shy From Dispensing Addiction Medication

By Aneri Pattani November 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A West Virginia pharmacy cleared a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation. But it shut down anyway, highlighting how the agency’s policies reduce the availability of buprenorphine, an important tool for recovery from opioid addiction.

Federal Judge Blocks Part Of HHS Surprise Billing Rule

February 24, 2022 Morning Briefing

In a win for doctors, a federal judge in Texas on Wednesday struck down part of the Biden administration’s regulations, taking issue with its mediation process for hospitals and doctors and insurers to settle disputes over out-of-network medical bills.

The Colonoscopies Were Free. But the ‘Surgical Trays’ Came With $600 Price Tags.

By Samantha Liss January 25, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Health providers may bill however they choose — including in ways that could leave patients with unexpected bills for “free” care. Routine preventive care saddled an Illinois couple with his-and-her bills for “surgical trays.”

Why Is Finding Covid Shots for Young Children Still So Hard?

By Jackie Fortiér, LAist October 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

In Los Angeles and elsewhere, some parents are having trouble finding the new pediatric covid shot, especially for young children. Not all pediatricians or pharmacies have it and can administer it, even if vaccines.gov says they can.

An Arm and a Leg: Don’t Get ‘Bullied’ Into Paying What You Don’t Owe

By Dan Weissmann August 27, 2024 Podcast

In this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann speaks with Caitlyn Mai, a woman in Oklahoma who received a six-figure bill for a surgery her insurance promised to cover. This episode is an extended version of the “Bill of the Month” series, produced in partnership with NPR.

Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals

By Lauren Sausser December 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Delaying cancer treatment can be deadly — which makes the roadblock-riddled process that health insurers use to approve or deny care particularly daunting for oncology patients.

Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get

By Katheryn Houghton and Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss November 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The bottleneck caused by states’ reevaluation of Medicaid enrollees has swept up low-income families that rely on other safety-net services.

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