Black Tech Founders Want to Change the Culture of Health Care, One Click at a Time
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Stranded by the Pandemic, He Had Only Travel Insurance. It Left Him With a $38,000 Bill.
Duy Hoa Tran, a retired Vietnamese schoolteacher, arrived in Los Angeles in February 2020 to visit his daughter and 2-month-old
Read MoreReaders and Tweeters Find Disadvantages in Medicare Advantage
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Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Why Health Care Is So Expensive, Chapter $22K
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Read MoreResearcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original
Read MoreAs Constituents Clamor for Ivermectin, Republican Politicians Embrace the Cause
When state senators in South Carolina held two hearings in September about covid-19 treatments, they got an earful on the
Read MoreFew Acute Care Hospitals Escaped Readmissions Penalties
Preventable rehospitalization of the nation’s older adults has proved a persistent health and financial challenge for the U.S., costing Medicare
Read MoreUninsured in South Would Win Big in Democrats’ Plan, but Hospitals Fear Funding Loss
At least 2.2 million low-income adults — nearly all in Texas and the Southeast — would be eligible for government-funded
Read MorePatients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.
They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19 — if
Read MoreLaboratorios sin técnicos: por qué los expertos en salud pública están renunciando
Hubo días, noches y fines de semana en los primeros meses de la pandemia en los que Denise Von Bargen
Read MoreLabs With No One to Run Them: Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field
There were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only
Read MoreHigh Court Hears Cases on Novel Texas Law, but Outcome May Not Affect Abortion Access
The Supreme Court, whose conservative majority is considered poised to overturn decades-old decisions guaranteeing abortion rights, heard its first two
Read MoreERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid
Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up
Read MoreMedicare Punishes 2,499 Hospitals for High Readmissions
The federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments
Read MoreHow Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency
Caitlin Wells Salerno knew that some mammals — like the golden-mantled ground squirrels she studies in the Rocky Mountains —
Read MorePharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision
The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it into the ever-shrinking
Read MoreAnalysis: A Procedure That Cost $1,775 in New York Was $350 in Maryland. Here’s Why.
For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and many neurological tests after a complicated head
Read MoreDirect Primary Care, With a Touch of Robin Hood
MODESTO, Calif. — Britta Foster and Minerva Tiznado are in different leagues as far as health care is concerned. Foster,
Read MoreIn Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
On a recent morning, Jerrad Dinsmore and Kevin LeCaptain of Waldoboro EMS in rural Maine drove their ambulance to a
Read MoreConfronting Ageism in Health Care: A Conversation for Patients, Caregivers and Clinicians
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Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Dems Agree to Agree, But Not on What to Agree On
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Read MoreWorn-Out Nurses Hit the Road for Better Pay, Stressing Hospital Budgets — and Morale
In parts of the country where covid-19 continues to fill hospitals, a rotating cast of traveling nurses helps keep intensive
Read MoreCientíficos buscan la causa de una misteriosa inflamación en niños relacionada con covid
Como la mayoría de los niños con covid, Dante y Michael DeMaino no parecían tener síntomas graves. Infectados a mediados
Read MoreScientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children
Like most other kids with covid, Dante and Michael DeMaino seemed to have no serious symptoms. Infected in mid-February, both
Read MoreWatch: Going Beyond the Script of ‘Dopesick’ and America’s Real-Life Opioid Crisis
KHN and policy colleagues at our parent organization KFF teamed up with Hulu for a discussion of America’s opioid crisis,
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Politics of Vaccine Mandates
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Read MoreHealth Industry Wields Power in California’s High-Stakes Battle to Lower Health Care Costs
SACRAMENTO — Gavin Newsom put California’s health care industry on notice when he was a candidate for governor, vowing in
Read MoreThe Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views
As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of
Read MoreCentros de órganos a pacientes de trasplantes: vacúnense contra covid o bajarán en la lista de espera
Un candidato a trasplante de riñón de Colorado que fue puesto en estado inactivo por no vacunarse contra covid-19 se
Read MoreOrgan Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist
A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a covid-19 vaccine has become
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