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2023-01-04 A Medical Cost-Sharing Plan Left Pastor With Most Of The Cost Bram Sable-Smith Jeff King, 63, Lawrence, Kansas Approximate Medical Debt: $160,000 Medical Issue: Heart ablation What Happened: Kareen King calls it “the ultimate paradox”: The hospital that saved her husband’s heart also broke it. Jeff King needed his heart rhythm restored […]
2023-01-03 From Her View in Knoxville, the Health System Is ‘Not Designed for Poor People’ Noam N. Levey Monica Reed, 60, Knoxville, Tenn. Approximate Medical Debt: $10,000 Medical Issue: Cancer What Happened: Monica Reed considers herself luckier than most. Born in Knoxville and raised by a single mother, Reed became the first in […]
2022-12-30 The Case of the Two Grace Elliotts: A Medical Billing Mystery Mark Kreidler Earlier this year, Grace Elizabeth Elliott got a mysterious hospital bill for medical care she had never received. She soon discovered how far a clerical error can reach — even across a continent — and how frustrating it can […]
2022-12-28 Seasonal Cooks’ Secret Sauce: Heaping Nutrition and Cultural Zest Chaseedaw Giles Oldways Ambassadors Brenda Atchison and Glorya Fernandez walked a KHN reporter through two cooking demonstrations to showcase modern takes on cultural classics — like a cold black-eyed pea salad just in time for the new year, and a garlicky dill mojo sauce served […]
2022-12-28 Celine Dion’s diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome brought a rare neurological diagnosis into the public eye – two neurologists explain the science behind it Celine Dion, performing in London on July 5, 2019. Since her diagnosis, she has rescheduled her tour dates. Brian Rasic/WireImage via Getty Images Bhavana Patel, University of Florida and Torge Rempe, University […]
2022-12-27 Hundreds of Hospitals Sue Patients or Threaten Their Credit, a KHN Investigation Finds. Does Yours? Noam N. Levey Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills, using tactics such as lawsuits, selling patient accounts to debt buyers, […]
2022-12-22 Inside a Children’s Hospital: Struggling to Cope With a Surge of Respiratory Illness Kate Wells, Michigan Radio Waiting for their turn in the emergency room, dazed-looking parents in winter coats bounced crying children in their arms, trying to catch the eye of Dr. Erica Michiels. Us! Pick us next! they seemed to […]
2022-12-21 A Montana Addiction Clinic Wants to Motivate People With Rewards. Then Came a Medicaid Fraud Probe. Katheryn Houghton A Montana addiction clinic’s plan to give people with substance use disorders as much as $1,966.50 in gift cards and vouchers to follow its treatment program is raising questions about the use of financial […]
2022-12-19 Is Legislation to Safeguard Americans Against Superbugs a Boondoggle or Breakthrough? Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Arthur Allen With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling to pass a bill aimed at spurring the development of antibiotics to combat […]
2022-12-18 What Germany’s Coal Miners Can Teach America About Medical Debt Noam N. Levey PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany’s Saarland. The region’s last-operating coal shaft, just a […]