Half Of Hospitals In Conn., Del. Hit By Medicare鈥檚 Safety Penalties
Seven states saw a third or more of their hospitals punished under the federal heath law鈥檚 campaign against hospital-acquired conditions.
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Readers Have Bones To Pick, From Health System Flaws To Covering Pot Beat
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Pharmacists Slow To Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug
Laws in California and most other states allow pharmacists to provide naloxone to patients or their friends without a doctor鈥檚 prescription. But many don鈥檛 do so, citing lack of demand and awareness among patients, their own fears of insufficient compensation and the challenges of treating opioid users.
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Terrifying Brush With Death Drives Doctor To Fight For Patients
Dr. Rana Awdish was completing a fellowship in critical care when she became critically ill herself. Now, she helps other doctors understand the patient鈥檚 perspective.
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Care Suffers As More Nursing Homes Feed Money Into Corporate Webs
Increasingly, owners of nursing homes outsource services to companies in which they also have financial interest or control. That allows the nursing homes to claim to be in the red while owners reap hidden profits.
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Trump Administration Relaxes Financial Penalties Against Nursing Homes
Medicare is discouraging regional offices from levying fines for 鈥渙ne-time mistakes鈥 or from using daily fines that seek to put pressure on nursing homes to make changes.
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Sickle Cell Patients, Families And Doctors Face A 鈥楩ight For Everything鈥
Premature death, a dearth of treatments, mistreatment in emergency rooms and a woeful lack of funding are just a few of the problems confronting people with sickle cell disease.
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FDA Chief Says He鈥檚 Open To Rethinking Incentives On Orphan Drugs
The FDA鈥檚 Scott Gottlieb says the agency is focused on the big picture, and he wants to know why pharma churns out drugs for some rare diseases but not for others.
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Arthritis Drugs Show How U.S. Drug Prices Defy Economics
Drugs that treat rheumatoid arthritis started out costing about $10,000 a year. Ten years later, they list for more than $40,000.
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Biosimilars, Biologics And New Legal Challenges For RA Treatments
As biosimilar products reach the market and rival more established RA treatments, the players are exploring legal challenges involving antitrust and anti-competitive behavior.
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Medicare Penalizes Group Of 751 Hospitals For Patient Injuries
Each hospital will have its payments reduced by 1 percent for the year.
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Unregulated Herpes Experiments Expose 鈥楤lack Hole鈥 Of Accountability
Controversial research methods by university researcher unlikely to prompt federal response or institutional change, experts say.
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Doing More Harm Than Good? Epidemic of Screening Burdens Nation鈥檚 Older Patients
Patients are often aggressively screened for cancer, even if they won鈥檛 live long enough to benefit.
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Drug Industry Spent Millions To Squelch Talk About High Drug Prices
Last year, the pharma industry鈥 biggest trade group raised millions to change the conversation about drug pricing.
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No Sweeteners Added To Tax Bill To Spread Use Of Health Savings Accounts
These accounts are exempt from taxes and linked to high-deductible health plans. Republicans tried last summer in their unsuccessful efforts to replace the health law to make the accounts more enticing for consumers, but they didn鈥檛 make those changes in the current tax bill.
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Canada鈥檚 Single-Payer Health System: What Is True? What Is False?
It鈥檚 a regular part of the politically charged debate over health care. But the lines sometimes blur between rhetoric and how Canada鈥檚 system actually works.
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Looking North: Can A Single-Payer Health System Work In The U.S.?
American single-payer advocates want to emulate Canada鈥檚 system. But many Canadian experts say the U.S. first needs to address some basic questions.
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Medicare Fails To Recover Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Lab Overcharges
Genetic testing firms declare bankruptcy and wipe out debt to the federal government.
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In Era Of Increased Competition, Hospitals Fret Over Ratings
Hospitals are jockeying for patients and view the many different quality and safety ratings as a keen way to distinguish their services. But when those ratings nosedive, a hospital may retaliate.
By Jenny Gold