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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How Low Can They Go? Rural Hospitals Weigh Keeping Obstetric Units When Births Decline

By Charlotte Huff November 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many small hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units as births decline. For those who resist the trend, some studies suggest that hospitals with low deliveries are more likely to see complications for patients. Doctors and public health experts say there is no magic number to determine when it is best to close an obstetrics unit.

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.

The ER Charged Him $6,500 for Six Stitches. No Wonder His Critically Ill Wife Avoided the ER.

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio November 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

With few options for health care in their rural community, a Tennessee couple’s experience with one outrageous bill could have led to a deadly decision the next time they needed help.

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives

By Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani and Yuki Noguchi, NPR News and Bram Sable-Smith Updated December 21, 2022 Originally Published June 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

People talk about the sacrifices they made when health care forced them into debt.

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.

Can a Subscription Model Fix Primary Care in the US?

By Bernard J. Wolfson June 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Medical subscriptions, a $199 million CEO payday and the race to fix primary care in the U.S. One Medical is betting big that a subscription model can fix primary care. But the firm faces competition from CVS, Target and large hospital systems.

Unused Johnson & Johnson Covid Doses Are Piling Up as FDA Waits to See if Shelf Life Can Be Extended

By Rachana Pradhan and Christina Jewett June 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As vaccine expiration dates loom, states with hundreds of thousands of doses on hand say demand is tanking and there’s no easy way to donate to other states or countries that might want them

Mattresses and Mold Removal: Medi-Cal to Offer Unconventional Treatments to Asthma Patients

By Angela Hart December 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In January, California’s Medicaid program will begin offering nontraditional services —such as ridding homes of roaches, replacing mattresses and installing air purifiers — to some low-income asthma patients. But the rollout could be chaotic, with insurance companies struggling to identify groups that can deliver the services.

Leader of California’s Muscular Obamacare Exchange to Step Down

By Bernard J. Wolfson and Angela Hart September 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Peter Lee helped create Covered California, which has been lauded as a national example among the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces, and he fiercely opposed Republican efforts to repeal the federal health reform law.

Loophole Averted After Surprise-Bill Brouhaha In Texas

By Ashley Lopez, KUT December 19, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The Texas Medical Board bowed out of the rule-making process for a new law protecting consumers from surprise medical bills. Advocates hailed the new rules written by the state insurance regulators.

Lawmakers Pressure Newsom to ‘Step Up’ on Racism as a Public Health Issue

By Angela Hart June 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

California Democratic lawmakers are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve $100 million per year to fund programs that address health inequality and structural racism.

The Newest Disease Detection Tool for Covid and Beyond: Poop

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester August 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Hundreds of college campuses, cities and counties around California and the U.S. are exploring sewers for the newest data stream to track covid and other infectious diseases.

Clarity on Covid Count: Pandemic’s Toll on Seniors Extended Well Beyond Nursing Homes

By Judith Graham August 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The latest research shows that although deaths in nursing homes received enormous attention, far more older adults who perished from covid lived outside of institutions. People with dementia and other severe neurological conditions, chronic kidney disease and immune deficiencies were hit especially hard.

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