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A former farmworker, now a doctor, runs two clinics in California鈥檚 Central Valley providing care 鈥 often free of charge 鈥 for migrants who don鈥檛 have money and are deeply worried about the federal government鈥檚 hard-line stance on immigration.
Justices won鈥檛 alter the rule that prevents active-duty military members from suing the government for negligence. The challenge came from the family of Navy nurse Lt. Rebekah 鈥淢oani鈥 Daniel, who died in 2014 after bleeding to death following childbirth.
New data from the California agency that manages health benefits for 1.5 million public employees, retirees and their families shows that doctors are writing far fewer opioid prescriptions, reflecting a national trend of physicians cutting back on the addictive drugs.
For the seventh year in a row, Missouri will retain its lonely title as the only state without a statewide prescription drug monitoring program. Fears about privacy violations and gun control scuttled the bill yet again, leaving a pastiche of half-step measures in place to fill the void in the fight against prescription drug abuse.
Incidents of serious workplace violence are four times more common in health care than in private industry, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.
Deep questions underlie what is happening in Fort Scott, Kan.: Do small communities like this one need a traditional hospital at all? And, if not, what health care do they need?
Crowded emergency rooms are likely to blame. In 2017, the median ER wait time for patients before admission as inpatients to California hospitals was 336 minutes 鈥 or more than 5陆 hours.
Officials in Washington and other states are cracking down on companies that avoid health insurance regulations by masquerading as faith-based care.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the new abortion bans passed in Alabama and Georgia; bipartisan congressional efforts to end 鈥渟urprise鈥 out-of-network medical bills; and a new public option health insurance plan soon to be available in Washington state.
For the first time, the federal government is measuring the quality of rehab services in nursing homes for the millions of older adults who need post-hospitalization care.
The administration鈥檚 position on a pending lawsuit to get the Affordable Care Act is one of the reasons experts said there鈥檚 cause for skepticism.
KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner discusses on WBUR鈥檚 鈥淗ere and Now鈥 some of the surprising ramifications that could follow abortion restrictions passed recently in some states.
Kathy Brandt and Kim Acquaviva are both leaders in the world of hospice and palliative care. When Brandt learned she was dying of ovarian cancer, the couple decided it could be a teachable moment.
Walmart, the nation鈥檚 largest private employer, is recommending that employees and dependents use one of 800 imaging centers identified as providing trustworthy care.
Kaiser Health News鈥 Julie Rovner talks about a package of health care bills that Democrats plan to push through the House this week during an interview on 鈥淗ere and Now.鈥
After depending on the local hospital for more than a century, Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with life without it.
The claim by Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell is correct but could use more context and clarification.
California鈥檚 governor Friday scuttled his plan to siphon public health money from four counties to help provide health coverage for unauthorized immigrants ages 19 through 25.
A talking point used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to all three of these distinct concepts in a way that could magnify public misperceptions.
