Morning Briefing: Friday, September 15, 2023
Social Security overpayments, nursing home staffing, looming shutdown, decongestant, ER wait times, opioids, and more are in the news.
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Social Security overpayments, nursing home staffing, looming shutdown, decongestant, ER wait times, opioids, and more are in the news.
Surprise medical bills, covid origins, Medicaid, abortion battles, health care complaints, RSV, and more are in today's news.
ACA enrollment extended, Trump's picks for top health jobs, PBMs, opioids, polio vaccine, caregiver bill, gun violence, and more.
Obamacare; emergency abortions; mifepristone; heat and health; cannabis use; cancer screening and treatment; bird flu; and more.
Medicaid and SNAP; federal funding cuts; 'MAHA' report; 988 crisis hotline; excess deaths in the U.S.; abortion; and more are in the news.
The medical bill of the month; Medicaid changes; food and air safety; trans health; doctor wait times; and more are in the news.
Vaccines, Medicare premiums, PBMs, long covid, vaping, cancer, brain mapping, and more. Plus, enter our Halloween haiku contest.
Gene therapies, abortion pill access, medical education, RSV, gun violence, mental health care, and more are in the news.
ACA subsidies, Social Security overpayments, fluoride safety, PBM restrictions, vaccines, abortion pills, ChatGPT diagnoses, and more.
As Donald Trump readies for his return to the White House — with the backing of a GOP majority in the Senate and, possibly, the House — the entire health care industry is waiting to see what happens next. Clearly on the agenda: the future of abortion and reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and public health’s infrastructure. Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Jackie Fortiér, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-Washington Post “Bill of the Month” feature, about a 2-year-old who had a very expensive run-in with a rattlesnake.
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.
Vaccinations, reaction to UnitedHealth exec's killing, anesthesia coverage, Trump's health agency picks, obesity, medical training, and more
At least eight states have implemented or are considering limits on what patients can be billed for the use of a hospital’s facilities even without having stepped foot in the building.
Insurers, employers, and taxpayers will all be affected as drug manufacturers move these products to the commercial market.
Bill disputes, HIV, abortion ballot measures, obesity drugs, IVF, long cancer medical debt, mpox, cancer in younger people, and more
Another effort to make upfront cost comparisons possible in an industry known for its opaqueness: an online tool for consumers to get some idea of what they may pay for medical care.
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