- Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmissionby Amy Maxmen March 19, 2024
Four years since the covid pandemic emerged, health care workers want rules that protect them during outbreaks. They worry the CDC is repeating past mistakes […]
- How National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect Abortion Rights in Statesby Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan March 19, 2024
As money flows to abortion rights initiatives in states, some donors focus on where anger over the "Dobbs" ruling could propel voter turnout and spur […]
- Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Anotherby Indira Khera March 19, 2024
Peer leaders can help ease the shortage of mental health providers and build trust through shared experiences, state health officials say. In 2022, California […]
- Cuando tu cobertura de salud dentro de la red… simplemente se esfumaby Elisabeth Rosenthal March 18, 2024
los contratos de las aseguradoras con médicos, hospitales y farmacéuticas (o sus intermediarios, los llamados administradores de beneficios farmacéuticos) […]
- As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Backby Renuka Rayasam March 18, 2024
After California passed the first law in the nation to limit the disavowed term “excited delirium,” bills in other states are being introduced to help end […]
- Covid and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boomby Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Holly K. Hacker March 18, 2024
Demand for help monitoring patients’ vital signs remotely has taken off since a Medicare change in 2019. Dozens of companies now push the service to help […]
- Joe Biden’s Skittish Support for Abortion Rightsby Julie Rovner, KFF Health News March 15, 2024
President Biden spent much of his State of the Union speech last week talking about two subjects central to his reelection campaign while seemingly trying not […]
- When Copay Assistance Backfires on Patientsby Julie Appleby, KFF Health News March 15, 2024
Drugmakers offer copay assistance programs to patients, but insurers are tapping into those funds, not counting the amounts toward patient deductibles. That […]
- How Your In-Network Health Coverage Can Vanish Before You Know Itby Elisabeth Rosenthal March 15, 2024
One of the most unfair aspects of medical insurance is this: Patients can change insurance only during end-of-year enrollment periods or at the time of […]
- A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highwayby Drew Hawkins, Gulf St
New federal funds aim to address an array of problems created by highway construction in minority neighborhoods. These are economic, social, and, perhaps above […]