Open Your Mouth And Say Goo-Goo: Dentists Treating Ever-Younger Patients
A shift in dental guidelines encourages first dental visits for infants as young as 6 months, or when the first baby teeth emerge. That makes some dentists uncomfortable.
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The Orphan Drug Machine
Without Price Breaks, Rural Hospitals Struggle To Stock Costly, Lifesaving Drugs
A federal drug program blocks rural hospitals from getting discounts on rare-disease drugs, forcing staff to cut back on supplies of lifesaving medicines.
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Reporter鈥檚 Notebook: In Health Care, A Good Price (Or Any Price) Is Hard To Find
Not only are health prices hidden, industry players are contractually obligated to keep them secret. That鈥檚 why answering a simple question 鈥 how much does it cost to have a baby in Mountain View, Calif.? 鈥 became a journalistic quest.
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The Orphan Drug Machine
FDA Moves To Guard Against Abuse Of 鈥極rphan Drug鈥 Program
Following a KHN investigation, the Food and Drug Administration has moved to speed up approvals of 鈥渙rphan drugs鈥 while closing a loophole that allowed drugmakers to skip pediatric testing.
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Guess Who Pays The Price When Hospital Giants Hire Your Private Practitioner?
Gobbling up doctors鈥 independent practices is lucrative for hospital systems 鈥 but not necessarily a good deal for the physicians or consumers, critics say. Northern California is a case in point.
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Meningitis B Vaccine鈥檚 High Price Poses A Health Care Conundrum For College-Bound
This immunization may mark a shift among some vaccine makers to higher-priced, 鈥渘iche鈥 preventives that protect against very specific and sometimes rare illnesses.
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For Low-Income Drug Users, Medi-Cal Offers A Fresh Start
Under a five-year agreement with the federal government, California is using Medicaid dollars to expand drug treatment, including more inpatient care and a broader range of medications.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Lawmakers Debate How Much Wiggle Room To Give States In Health Care
The federal health law includes a provision that allows states to alter some of its rules if they can think of a better way to provide health care to their residents, but it鈥檚 not clear how far outside the box states can go.
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Shedding New Light On Hospice Care: No Need To Wait For The ‘Brink Of Death’
Hospice care often prompts fear and misunderstanding, but the services provided can lead to less pain and trauma at the end of life.
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How Below-The-Radar Mergers Fuel Health Care Monopolies
Most acquisitions by hospitals of physician practices are too small to trigger antitrust attention, study says. But a buying spree of 鈥渙nesies and twosies鈥 doctor practices has driven competition down and prices up.
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Why One California County Went Surgery Shopping
Fed up with high hospital costs and limited competition, Santa Barbara County sends willing employees out of town for better bargains. Local governments are slowly joining private employers in aggressively seeking out the best care for the lowest price.聽
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Trump Administration Whacks Millions From Budget Used To Push Obamacare
The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law鈥檚 open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.
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Some Thyroid Cancer Patients Can Safely Delay Surgery
Study suggests that many small tumors are sleepy, not deadly.
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Pioneering Cancer Gene Therapy Gets Green Light 鈥 And $475,000 Price Tag
The USA's first approved gene therapy 鈥 to be used to fight leukemia that resists standard therapies 鈥 will cost $475,000 for a one-time treatment.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
5 Outside-The-Box Ideas For Fixing The Individual Insurance Market
As lawmakers look for ways to stabilize the health law marketplaces, a number of ideas 鈥 such as expanding who can 鈥渂uy in鈥 to Medicare and Medicaid or pushing young adults off their parents鈥 plans into the marketplaces 鈥 might come into play.
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鈥楤reakthrough鈥 Leukemia Drug Also Portends 鈥楺uantum Leap鈥 In Cost
A genetically altered cancer drug, based on CAR T-cell therapies, could be a big success with leukemia patients but at a staggering cost.
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Medicare Unveils 鈥楽keletal鈥 Site For Hospice Comparison Shopping
This is the first federal website designed to help families choose a hospice, but experts aren鈥檛 impressed.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Often Missing In The Health Care Debate: Women鈥檚 Voices
When leaders in Washington discuss the future of American health care, women are not always in the room. Here, nine women share their personal stories, fears and hopes.
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Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care
Growing numbers of physicians say they support a single-payer health care system, a 180-degree turn in opinion over a decade.
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Climbing Cost Of Decades-Old Drugs Threatens To Break Medicaid Bank
Medicaid spent billions more in 2016 than the year before on decades-old prescription drugs, including many generics, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows.