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Health care workers face a greater threat of workplace violence than workers in most other industries. Hospitals are installing security cameras and panic buttons, arming security guards with stun guns and teaching their employees how to handle potentially violent situations.
The pharmaceutical industry鈥檚 argument that capping drug prices would compromise drug innovation stands 鈥渙n very shaky ground.鈥
Anthem Blue Cross has received a disproportionate share of violations and fines from California鈥檚 largest health insurance regulator, mostly related to its mishandling of patient grievances.
Millions of injuries and malfunctions once funneled into a hidden Food and Drug Administration database are now available.
As alarms proliferate, hospitals are working to sort through the cacophony that can overwhelm staff and cause them to overlook real signs of harm.
In the wake of a Kaiser Health News investigation, doctors want the University of Virginia鈥檚 health system to stop suing its patients over unpaid bills.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Over the past decade, government efforts to create a national system to track and analyze deaths, injuries and other adverse incidents linked to electronic health records repeatedly have failed amid opposition from the technology industry and its supporters in Congress.
On Season 3, Episode 2 of the podcast 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 an Illinois woman harnesses a lifetime of experience 鈥 and frustration 鈥 with health care finances to help other people solve their medical bill problems.
Special interests and congressional inaction blocked efforts to track the safety of electronic medical records, leaving patients at risk.
In the past decade, federal and state governments have removed cost and access obstacles, but immunization rates remained flat. That worries public health officials.
When passing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats touted the fact that they had included many measures to pay for the bill鈥檚 expanded coverage. But nearly 10 years later, many of the 鈥減ay-fors鈥 have been eliminated.
Legislation that takes effect next July will let people buy the medications without a prescription for a limited period. Medical professionals say it鈥檚 a step in the right direction but will not significantly increase the use of the medicine without additional efforts.
Most infants in the United States have a hearing screening in their first few days of life. Twenty years ago, before universal newborn screening, many kids missed out on early intervention services that help children with hearing loss access sound and develop spoken language.
Although many consumers pay nothing out of pocket for flu shots, insurers foot the bill. And those prices vary dramatically.
Despite laws requiring that health care providers hand over copies of patient records in a timely fashion, many people have trouble getting theirs. Ciitizen, a Palo Alto, Calif., company that helps cancer patients with the task, recently published a scorecard that rates hospitals, doctors and clinics on their compliance with records requests.
The final directive drew swift responses from the hospital and insurance industries. The Trump administration also released a proposed rule that would require health insurers to spell out for all services beforehand just how much patients may owe for their out-of-pocket costs.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don鈥檛 have to.
It鈥檚 November, do you know where your HHS spending bill is? Still stuck in Congress. Meanwhile, lawmakers move ahead on restricting tobacco products for youth while the administration鈥檚 proposal is MIA. Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more health news from the week. Also, Rovner interviews Dan Weissmann, host of the podcast 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg.鈥
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