Readers and Tweeters Decry Medical Billing Errors, Price-Gouging, and Barriers to Benefits
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and req...Read More
‘An Arm and a Leg’: When Insurance Won’t Pay, Abortion Assistance Funds Step In
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. As Americans choose their insurance plans f...Read More
California Aims to Maximize Health Insurance Subsidies for Workers During Labor Disputes
This spring, Chevron workers testified that the company revoked health coverage for hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers Local 5 ...Read More
Audits — Hidden Until Now — Reveal Millions in Medicare Advantage Overcharges
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, wit...Read More
Path Cleared for Georgia to Launch Work Requirements for Medicaid
Georgia is set to become the only state to have work requirements for Medicaid coverage. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection — and a su...Read More
California acumula multas de residentes sin seguro en lugar de reducir los costos de la atención
SACRAMENTO — Casi tres años después de que California comenzara a multar a los residentes que no tienen seguro médico, KHN supo que el estad...Read More
How Optimism Can Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap
More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They ea...Read More
Medicare Plan Finder Likely Won’t Note New $35 Cap on Out-of-Pocket Insulin Costs
A big cut in prescription drug prices for some Medicare beneficiaries kicks in next year, but finding those savings isn’t easy. Congress ap...Read More
South Dakota Voters Approved Medicaid Expansion, but Implementation May Not Be Easy
RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakotans voted Tuesday to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover thousands of additional low-income residents...Read More
Defense Department Health Plan Cuts Its Pharmacy Network by Nearly 15,000 Outlets
Doris Spatz takes a once-a-day pill, Kisqali, to keep her metastatic breast cancer in check. As a patient in the Defense Department health s...Read More
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