Putting A Face To Surprise Bills: Among Specialists, Plastic Surgeons Most Often Out-Of-Network
Many plastic surgeons don鈥檛 participate in health plans, even when providing emergency care at a hospital. Too often that catches patients off guard.
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Readers And Tweeters Parse Ideas 鈥 From Snakebites To Senior Suicide
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
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FDA To End Program That Hid Millions Of Reports On Faulty Medical Devices
In the wake of a KHN investigation, the agency will no longer let device makers file reports of harm outside a widely used public database.
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Short-Staffed Nursing Homes See Drop In Medicare Ratings
In its latest update to the Nursing Home Compare website, the government gave 1,638 homes its lowest star rating for staffing 鈥 one star on its five-star scale. Most were downgraded because payroll records reported no registered-nurse hours at all for at least four days.
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Look-Up: How Nursing Home Staffing Fluctuates Nationwide
Use this tool to see staffing levels at skilled nursing homes in the U.S.
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Even Doctors Can鈥檛 Navigate Our 鈥楤roken Health Care System鈥
A physician鈥檚 frustration navigating a medical emergency with his elderly father reveals a complex, dysfunctional system.
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Watch: Electronic Medical Records Investigation In Spotlight On C-SPAN
KHN鈥檚 Fred Schulte talks on C-SPAN with viewers about errors and other problems with computerized health records.
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Will Ties To A Catholic Hospital System Tie Doctors鈥 Hands?
Doctors at the University of California鈥檚 flagship San Francisco hospital are sharply divided over a proposal to join forces with a Catholic-run system that restricts care on the basis of religious doctrine 鈥 part of a broader public debate as Catholic hospitals expand their reach.
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Is Insulin’s High Cost Keeping Diabetes Patients From Taking Their Medicine?
An estimated 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes and cannot live without insulin. Sen. Kamala Harris鈥 claim that 1 in 4 diabetes patients cannot afford their insulin is a shockingly high number, so we decided to dig into the sparse data.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
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Newsom: California Leads On Prescription Drugs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that his state is 鈥渓eading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.鈥 Is that really the case?
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Klobuchar Wants To Stop 鈥楶ay-For-Delay鈥 Deals That Keep Drug Prices High
It鈥檚 as shady as it sounds.
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Patients Caught In Middle Of Fight Between Health Care Behemoths
A legal battle in Pennsylvania is testing the boundaries of health care competition and government action to oversee and regulate it.
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Pain Clinics’ Doctors Needlessly Tested Hundreds Of Urine Samples, Court Records Show
Whistleblower lawsuits accuse Tennessee chain of bilking millions from Medicare for unnecessary urine drug tests.
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Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 The Abortion Wars Rage On
Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the latest news about women鈥檚 reproductive health policy and the latest skirmish in the debate over 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥: how hospitals should be paid.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don鈥檛 have to.
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Watch: Price Of A Brace Brings Soccer Player To His Knees
KHN ethnic media editor Paula Andalo appeared on Telemundo, where she offered advice about how to avoid overpaying for medical equipment you may not need.
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Podcast: KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥 You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to answer listener questions about the fate of the Affordable Care Act, 鈥淢edicare-for-all鈥 and how to talk about health care costs. Also, for extra credit, the panelists offer their favorite 鈥渆xtra credit鈥 stories of the week.
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Watch: ACA鈥檚 Future And 鈥楳edicare-For-All鈥 Front And Center As Candidates Line Up For 2020
Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News talks about the court case challenging the Affordable Care Act and Democratic proposals to expand Medicare on C-SPAN and NPR.