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The administration officials could not answer some basic questions from senators, including how much money the agency has gained from the health law鈥檚 Medicaid expansion and whether President Donald Trump鈥檚 proposed 2018 budget would help the agency hire more staff.
Simultaneous surgeries have ignited an impassioned debate in the medical community.
Starting in September, the three main agencies will wait 180 days before including a medical debt on a credit report.
Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the state of the Senate鈥檚 effort to replace Obamacare.
Of the 528 nursing homes that graduated from special focus status before 2014 and are still operating, more than half 鈥 52 percent 鈥 have harmed patients or operated in a way that put patients in serious jeopardy within the past three years, a KHN analysis finds.
Medicare Advantage plans offer good value and aim to keep patients healthy but sicker people are far more likely to quit because they can鈥檛 get the care they need.
On NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, KHN's Elisabeth Rosenthal answers questions about the high cost of U.S. health care, while NPR's Gisele Grayson addresses how the Senate bill to replace the Affordable Care Act would change the system.
Medicare is trying to deter overuse of hyperbaric therapy, and some experts question its effectiveness for healing diabetic wounds, one of the treatment鈥檚 fastest-growing uses.
As we get older, it helps to tickle the noggin with trivia.聽Here's a pop quiz to see what you have learned as a regular reader of Kaiser Health News.
The bill would limit non-economic damages to $250,000, but it faces opposition from across the political spectrum.
The Republicans' penalty would affect people buying insurance who had a lapse in coverage of more than 63 days over a year.
Medicaid pays for two-thirds of nursing home residents, but some recipients don鈥檛 even know they鈥檙e on it.
An expert panel renews its guidelines that children and teens be screened for obesity at doctors鈥 offices and advised to receive treatment.
Once-fatal childhood diseases, like cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease and sickle cell anemia, now can be survived into adulthood. But when those patients become too old to see pediatricians, it can be difficult for them to find physicians familiar with their conditions.
Innate Immunotherapeutics, whose largest shareholder is Buffalo-area Rep. Chris Collins, received FDA approval to begin U.S. trials of its drug for treating advanced multiple sclerosis.
Armed with strict guidelines and motivated by sheer urgency, a specialized team of nurses makes the rounds, seeking to thwart the No. 1 killer in U.S. hospitals.
A small number of medical practices have been moving to 鈥渄irect primary care,鈥 in which patients pay a monthly retainer for unlimited services. But the collapse of Qliance in Seattle may portend problems with the business model.
Documents examined by Kaiser Health News shed light on the workings of the Trump administration's 鈥淒rug Pricing and Innovation Working Group."
The Seattle case, the first to reach trial in the U.S., offers possible glimpse into fate of some two dozen lawsuits against manufacturing giant Olympus, accused of failing to address scope contamination linked to numerous deaths. The company faults poor hospital cleaning practices.
This year鈥檚 American Diabetes Association scientific meeting came with a hefty price 鈥 a policy of no photography and limits on social media. That did not go over well on Twitter.
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