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How One Health Center Is Leading Chicago on Kid Covid Shots

By Giles Bruce November 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A health center with clinics on Chicago’s southwest side that serves mostly Hispanic patients has provided the most covid shots to kids in the city by being accessible, (literally) speaking the language of the community and setting up pop-up clinics at schools and parks. It provides a few lessons as the nation gears up to vaccinate 5- to 11-year-olds.

California Inks Sweetheart Deal With Kaiser Permanente, Jeopardizing Medicaid Reforms

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Angela Hart and Samantha Young February 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice.

By Rae Ellen Bichell June 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A college student never got an answer for what caused her intense pain, but she did get a bill that totaled $18,736 for an ER visit. She and her mom, a nurse practitioner, fought to understand all the charges.

COVID Tests Are Free, Except When They’re Not

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez April 29, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Her doctor worried she had COVID-19 but couldn’t test her for it until she ruled out other things. That test cost a bundle.

No Vacancy: How a Shortage of Mental Health Beds Keeps Kids Trapped Inside ERs

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR June 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

What’s known as emergency room boarding of psychiatric patients has risen between 200% and 400% monthly in Massachusetts during the pandemic — and the problem is widespread. The CDC says emergency room visits after suicide attempts among teen girls were up 51% earlier this year as compared with 2019.

California Set to Spend Billions on Curing Homelessness and Caring for ‘Whole Body’ Politic

By Angela Hart September 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California is embarking on a five-year experiment to infuse its health insurance program for low-income people with billions of dollars in nonmedical services spanning housing, food delivery and addiction care. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the goal is to improve care for the program’s sickest and costliest members and save money, but will it work?

Watch: Out-Of-Network Outrage After A $540K Charge For Dialysis

July 25, 2019 KFF Health News Original

CBS This Morning covers the highest KHN-NPR Bill of the Month yet: more than half a million dollars for just 14 weeks of kidney dialysis in Montana.

Laws Shield Hospitals From Families Who Believe Loved Ones Contracted Covid as Patients

By Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett December 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Families who believe their loved ones contracted covid-19 while hospitalized are finding they have little recourse following a wave of liability shield legislation pushed by business interests.

Why Pregnant People Were Left Behind While Vaccines Moved at ‘Warp Speed’ to Help the Masses

By Liz Szabo February 24, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Clinical trials of covid-19 vaccines excluded pregnant people, which left many women wondering whether to get vaccinated.

States Step Up Push to Regulate Pharmacy Drug Brokers

By Katheryn Houghton June 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In an ongoing effort to control prescription drug costs, states are targeting the companies that mediate deals among drug manufacturers, health insurers and pharmacies. The pharmacy benefit managers say they negotiate lower prices for patients, yet the nitty-gritty occurs largely behind a curtain that lawmakers are trying to pull back.

Citing COVID, Sutter Pushes To Revisit Landmark Antitrust Settlement

By Jenny Gold June 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Six months after agreeing to a $575 million settlement in a landmark antitrust case, Sutter Health has yet to pay a single dollar and now says the terms may be untenable, given the strain caused by the pandemic.

Unvaccinated, Homebound and Now Hospitalized With Covid in New York City

By Fred Mogul June 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Across the country, doctors report that those hospitalized with covid now are largely unvaccinated. New York City lags the rest of the nation in vaccinating people 65 and older, and its efforts to reach the homebound and disabled have been late in coming and disorganized.

Hospitals Confront Climate Change as Patients Sick From Floods and Fires Crowd ERs

By Miranda Green October 1, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Patients sickened in heat waves, flooding and wildfire have raised awareness of climate change’s impact on health. Now, some hospitals are building solar panels and cutting waste to reduce their own carbon footprints, with support from a new office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But the industry is moving slowly.

Mission and Money Clash in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Venture Capital Ambitions

By Jordan Rau August 24, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Nonprofit hospitals of all sizes have been trying their luck as venture capitalists, saying their investments improve care through the creation of new medical devices, health software and other innovations. But the gamble at times has been harder to pull off than expected.

Detecting Rare Blood Clots Was a Win, But US Vaccine Safety System Still Has Gaps

By JoNel Aleccia May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

With some 100 million Americans fully vaccinated, the U.S. is relying on a patchwork network of vaccine monitoring systems that lack the breadth and depth of large, population-based programs, experts said.

They May Owe Nothing — Half-Million-Dollar Dialysis Bill Canceled

By Jenny Gold July 26, 2019 KFF Health News Original

After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive a Montana man’s huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care.

A Colorado Town Is About as Vaccinated as It Can Get. Covid Still Isn’t Over There.

By Rae Ellen Bichell October 1, 2021 KFF Health News Original

San Juan County, Colorado, is one of the most vaccinated counties in the U.S. Leaders across the country continue to expound on the vaccine as the path forward in the pandemic. But San Juan’s experience the past few weeks with its first covid hospitalizations shows that, even with an extremely vaccinated population, masks are still necessary.

Dentists Chip Away at Uninsured Problem by Offering Patients Membership Plans

By Phil Galewitz September 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The plans are designed for people who don’t get dental coverage through their jobs and can’t afford an individual plan. For about $300 to $400 a year, patients receive certain preventive services at no charge and other procedures at a discount.

Trump Wrongly Said Health Insurers Will Pay For All Coronavirus Treatment

By Shefali Luthra and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact March 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

There are important distinctions between how insurance companies will cover the test and the treatment. This makes the president’s statement an exaggeration, at best.

Analysis: Who Profits From Steep Medical Bills? The People Tasked With Fixing Them.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal February 19, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Surprise bills are just the latest weapons in a decades-long war among health care industry players over who gets to keep the fortunes generated each year from patient illness: $3.6 trillion in 2018. The practice is an outrage, yet no one in the health care sector wants to unilaterally make the type of big concessions that would change things.

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