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For years, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of California鈥檚 largest nonprofit hospitals, has been spending less on charity care than other nonprofit hospitals in the state. Now it is expanding eligibility for free and discounted medical care.
People with sickle cell disease aren’t fueling the opioid crisis, research shows. Yet some ER doctors still treat patients seeking relief for agonizing sickle cell crises as potential addicts.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.
Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, sat down for a rare interview with KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney. They discuss her views on President Donald Trump鈥檚 plan for sustaining public health insurance programs, how the administration would respond if Obamacare is struck down by the courts in the future and her thoughts on how the latest “Medicare for All” proposals would affect innovation and access to care.
Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney and PBS NewsHour producer Jason Kane report from Tennessee, where the rate of uninsured kids has soared.
American marijuana has a reputation for being the best in the world. But the federal prohibition on marijuana makes shipments across state lines or overseas a pipe dream. While U.S. firms expect the restrictions to drop in the coming years, they are stuck operating within state borders. That鈥檚 left Canadian cannabis growers to dominate the export market, with U.S. firms falling further behind each year.
A routine doctor’s visit for a sore throat brought more than $28,000 in charges for one New York City woman in our latest “Bill of the Month” installment.
Every country provides and pays for health care differently. Yet surveys show the U.S. health system covers fewer people and costs more than the systems of most other industrialized countries. Are there international systems that the U.S. could emulate or borrow from? On this special episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 host Julie Rovner interviews international health experts Gerard Anderson of Johns Hopkins and Christopher Pope of the Manhattan Institute.
New thinking about aging spins on how to stay free of chronic illnesses and cognitive decline later in life.
As happens when the tech industry gets involved, hype surrounds the claims that artificial intelligence will help patients and even replace some doctors.
The influential trade association has said little over the years as health systems, including those of its own trustees, seized patients鈥 incomes and assets. Now it is reevaluating.
Every year 鈥 for decades 鈥 the Buehler family and friends have organized a softball tournament in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area to raise money for someone with big medical expenses. In 2019, the group helped forgive $1 million in medical debt.
It鈥檚 been about a year since the hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., closed. The lessons for this community about meeting its residents鈥 health needs could provide insights for the rest of the country.
Because of a little-known federal exemption program, death data about heart devices sits in inaccessible FDA files that can take up to two years for the public to see under open-records laws.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
The federal government funneled billions in subsidies to software vendors and some overstated or deceived the government about what their products could do, according to whistleblowers.
The Texas Advance Directives Act gives hospitals the authority to stop life-sustaining support if another hospital won鈥檛 accept the patient. The family of Tinslee Lewis, a 10-month-old with serious medical problems, is fighting to keep her in hospital care.
In our ongoing, crowdsourced investigation with NPR and CBS, we鈥檝e armed future health system pilgrims with the tools they need to avoid exorbitant medical bills and fight back against unfair charges. Here鈥檚 a look back at 2019鈥檚 stories.
The aptly named Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly provides services funded by Medicaid and Medicare that range from medical and mental health care to hot lunches, recreation, transportation and haircuts. California鈥檚 newest PACE center opened recently in San Diego County.
A New York City woman, worried that her sore throat might be strep, got swabbed at her doctor鈥檚 office. The sample was sent to an out-of-network lab for sophisticated DNA tests 鈥 with a price tag similar to a new SUV.
