His Anesthesia Provider Billed Medicare Late. He Got Sent to Collections for the $3,000 Tab.
Thomas Greene had been experiencing pain in his right leg, a complication from diabetes, when doctors recommended a procedure to increase bl...Read More
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Another Try for Mental Health ‘Parity’
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF ...Read More
Covered California to Cut Patient Costs After Democratic Lawmakers Win Funding From Gov. Newsom
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Weeks after Democratic lawmakers forced Gov. Gavin Newsom to make good on a four-year-old pledge to use tax penalty pr...Read More
Hospitals Ask Congress to Delay ACA Medicaid Funding Cuts — For the 14th Time
It has become as familiar a sight in Washington as the cherry blossoms in spring: lobbyists from the nation’s hospitals descending on the Ca...Read More
Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas
Forget “repeal and replace,” an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have advanced a pac...Read More
Journalists Discuss Abortion Lawsuits and the Pros and Cons of Health Care Sharing Plans
KFF Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney discussed the lawsuit to block the “abortion trafficking” law in Idaho on KUOW’s “Soundsid...Read More
Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril.
For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the t...Read More
¿Cuánto costará la pÃldora anticonceptiva de venta libre? ¿La cubrirán los seguros?
Hace pocos dÃas, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) aprobó Opill, el primer anticonceptivo oral diario que estará disponibl...Read More
A Mom Owed Nearly $102,000 for Hospital Care. Her State Attorney General Said to Pay Up.
Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a st...Read More
Once the New Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Is Available, What About Cost and Coverage?
Last week, the FDA approved Opill, the first daily oral contraceptive that will be available for sale over the counter in stores as well as ...Read More
A Plan to Cut Montana’s Medicaid Waiting List Was Met With Bipartisan Cheers. Then a Veto.
Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pa...Read More
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