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With More People Giving Birth at Home, Montana Passed a Pair of Laws to Make It Easier

By Keely Larson July 12, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The state now requires Medicaid to cover midwife services and has expanded the list of prescription drugs midwives can administer.

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Readers and Tweeters Are Horrified by Harm Tied to Dental Device

March 31, 2023 KFF Health News Original

KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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An Anesthesiology Practice’s Busy Day in Court Collecting on Surprise Bills

By Jay Hancock December 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Legislative crackdowns on out-of-network bills haven’t kept specialists from hitting patients with unexpected charges running into thousands of dollars.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Biden Budget Touches All the Bases

March 10, 2023 Podcast

Very little in the proposed budget released by the Biden administration is likely to become law, particularly with Republicans in charge of the U.S. House. Still, the document is an important statement of the president’s policy priorities, and it’s clear health programs are among those he feels are important. Meanwhile, five women who were denied abortions when their pregnancies threatened their lives are suing Texas. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Harris Meyer, who reported and wrote the two latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” features. Both were about families facing unexpected bills following childbirth.

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ER Doctors Vow to Pursue Case Against Envision Despite Bankruptcy

By Bernard J. Wolfson May 12, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The lawyer for an emergency physicians group says its lawsuit against Envision Healthcare should be allowed to proceed even though the company has filed for Chapter 11 protection.

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Readers Slam Hospital Monopolies and Blame the Feds for Understaffed Nursing Homes

December 6, 2023 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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Patients Get Stranded Out of Network as Insurer-Hospital Contract Talks Fall Apart

By Andy Miller November 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As hospital systems and insurers adjust to the pandemic, their contract negotiations grow increasingly fraught. Contracts for in-network care are ending without a new deal, leaving patients suddenly with out-of-network bills or scrambling to find new in-network providers.

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Insurance Dispute Could Kick Nearly 200,000 Patients Out Of Network In NC

October 13, 2023 Morning Briefing

UNC Health and UnitedHealthcare are in the middle of a contract negotiation and said in a letter to patients that the two parties are far apart on reimbursement policies and rate increases. In other news, Kaiser Permanente has resumed contract talks with its workers.

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Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive

By Arielle Zionts September 9, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Independent and rural hospitals are collaborating with their neighbors to shore up their finances instead of joining larger health systems to stay afloat.

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An Arm and a Leg: A ‘Payday Loan’ From a Health Care Behemoth

By Dan Weissmann June 6, 2023 Podcast

UnitedHealth Group is the largest health insurer in the United States. And it keeps growing. This has led some health care experts to call for antitrust regulation of this “behemoth” company.

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A Covid Test Costing More Than a Tesla? It Happened in Texas.

By Aneri Pattani September 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A patient from Dallas got a PCR test in a free-standing suburban emergency room. The out-of-network charge: $54,000.

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Adventist, Blue Shield Contract Talks May Affect Many Californians

December 11, 2023 Morning Briefing

Contract negotiations between Adventist Health and Blue Shield of California fell through last week, and now the San Francisco Chronicle is warning thousands of Californians may have to pay out-of-network medical costs at their nearest hospital.

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When Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage Plans, Thousands of Members Get To Leave, Too

By Susan Jaffe April 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Breakups between health providers and Advantage plans are increasingly common. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has allowed whole groups of patients to leave their plans.

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What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 4, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Dollar General’s pilot mobile clinic program has been touted by company officials, rural health experts, and analysts as a model that could help solve rural America’s primary care shortage. But its Tennessee launch has been met with local skepticism.

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As the Trump Administration and States Push Health Data Sharing, Familiar Challenges Surface

By Sarah Kwon September 23, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Despite billions of tax dollars and two decades of effort invested in improving health care data sharing, Americans’ medical records often remain siloed, leading to duplicate testing, increased costs, and wasted time for patients and doctors.

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Medical Bills Can Be Vexing and Perplexing. Here’s This Year’s Best Advice for Patients.

By Emmarie Huetteman December 23, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As the crowdsourced investigative series from KFF Health News approaches its eighth anniversary, “Bill of the Month” offers its top takeaways of 2025 to help patients manage, decipher, and even fight their medical bills.

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Congressional Doctors Lead Bipartisan Revolt Over Policy on Surprise Medical Bills

By Michael McAuliff November 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Congress last year shielded consumers from unexpected out-of-network charges, but hospitals and doctors have decried the arbitration plan put forward by the Biden administration for negotiating these bills as favoring insurers. More than 150 members of the House agree.

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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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Even When IVF Is Covered by Insurance, High Bills and Hassles Abound

By Phil Galewitz Illustration by Oona Zenda May 4, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Only 15 states require insurance to cover in vitro fertilization, a common path to parenthood for people who have trouble getting pregnant. And even for those whose insurance covers IVF, the expensive procedures and required drugs can lead to unexpected bills.

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ER’s Error Lands a 4-Year-Old in Collections (For Care He Didn’t Receive)

By Daniel Chang March 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child’s name on the bill, not hers.

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