2023-07-31 His Anesthesia Provider Billed Medicare Late. He Got Sent to Collections for the $3,000 Tab. Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Thomas Greene had been experiencing pain in his right leg, a complication from diabetes, when doctors recommended a procedure to increase blood flow to the limb. Retired from a career as an […]

    2023-07-30 In Wisconsin, Women’s Health Care Is Constricted by an 1849 Law. These Doctors Are Aghast. Sarah Varney, KFF Health News GREEN BAY, Wis. — The three women sitting around a table at a busy lunch spot share a grim camaraderie. It’s been more than a year since an 1849 law came back […]

    2023-07-29 Covered California to Cut Patient Costs After Democratic Lawmakers Win Funding From Gov. Newsom Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Weeks after Democratic lawmakers forced Gov. Gavin Newsom to make good on a four-year-old pledge to use tax penalty proceeds from fining the uninsured to increase health insurance subsidies for low- and middle-income […]

    2023-07-28 Home Sweet Parking Lot: Some Hospitals Welcome RV Living for Patients, Families, and Workers Christina Saint Louis Jim Weaver has had two major surgeries in the past decade: one to remove cancerous tumors from his bladder and another to clear a blocked artery. Weaver, 70, knew that after he emerged from surgery, […]

    2023-07-27 A Year With 988: What Worked? What Challenges Lie Ahead? Colleen DeGuzman The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month. Mental health experts say the three-digit number made help more accessible than before. The hotline was designed with the idea that people experiencing emotional distress are more […]

    2023-07-26 New Weight Loss Drugs Carry High Price Tags and Lots of Questions for Seniors Judith Graham Corlee Morris has dieted throughout her adult life. After her weight began climbing in high school, she spent years losing 50 or 100 pounds then gaining it back. Morris, 78, was at her heaviest in her […]

    2023-07-25 Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Forget “repeal and replace,” an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and […]

    2023-07-24 Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril. Noam N. Levey 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 threatening collection letters from a lab […]

    2023-07-23 Industry Groups in California Vie for New Medicaid Money Angela Hart and Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s powerful health care industry just notched a historic win: The state is going to give it an $11.1 billion infusion to improve care for millions of low-income Medicaid patients. But the intense jockeying over […]

    2023-07-22 Congress Considers Easing Regulations on Air Transport of Donated Organs Colleen DeGuzman What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations? Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration is a provision to change the life-or-death process by which human organs are […]