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State leaders are cutting public health spending and laying off workers hired during a pandemic-era grant boom. Public health officials say the bust will erode important advancements in the public health safety net, particularly in rural areas.
In this episode of āAn Arm and a Leg,ā host Dan Weissmann speaks with Caitlyn Mai, a woman in Oklahoma who received a six-figure bill for a surgery her insurance promised to cover. This episode is an extended version of the āBill of the Monthā series, produced in partnership with NPR.
A private 2014 decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services faces new scrutiny in a multibillion-dollar Justice Department fraud case against UnitedHealth Group.
Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as more aggressive than former President Donald Trump in taking on pharmaceutical companies, but Trump allies say he would also make lowering drug costs a top priority.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and The New York Times are looking into a dreaded āadultingā milestone: finding your own medical insurance at 26.
Regulators have been under the gun to curb unauthorized Obamacare enrollment and switching of plans. Separately, a pending lawsuit was amended with additional defendants and new allegations regarding tactics to garner greater ACA sales commissions.
A collection agency sought court authority to garnish a patientās wages to pay a disputed surgery bill. But after the patient showed up in court to argue the bill was bogus, the judge declined to let the bill collector seize her money.
As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice presidential nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz together are raising the prominence of health care as a 2024 election issue.
With medical devices, recalls are not always what they seem. In some recalls, including some of the most serious, the FDA and the manufacturers let doctors and hospitals continue to use the devices.
Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was established to exclusively admit Black patients during a time when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the same health care facilities as white patients. Its closure underscores how hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. fell casualty to social progress.
While fighting potential fraud in government programs has long been a conservative rallying cry, recent criticisms of the Affordable Care Act represent a renewed line of attack on the program when repealing it is unlikely.
Millions of dollars from national opioid settlements are pouring into Mississippi. The state and localities havenāt spent much yet. In many cases, how the money will be used is up in the air.
Proposed legislation would require the state attorney generalās consent for a wide range of private equity acquisitions in health care. The hospital lobby negotiated an exemption for for-profit hospitals.
This installment of InvestigateTV and Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā āCostly Careā series digs into patients' getting charged hospital prices for doctorās office care. For five years, a patient got the same injection from the same office. Then it changed how it billed and she owed more than $1,100 for one treatment.
Exercise is considered fundamental treatment for Parkinsonās disease, a progressive condition that attacks the central nervous system. But thereās a huge equity gap, researchers say, with Black people missing from popular treatment programs.
Clashes between residents ā verbal, physical, and sexual ā can be spontaneous and too unpredictable to prevent. But the chance of an altercation increases when memory care homes admit and retain residents they canāt manage, according to a Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News examination of inspection and court records and interviews with researchers.
As Congress pushes for Medicare to cover payment for anti-obesity drugs, Denmark ā Ozempic maker Novo Nordiskās home ā has limited coverage of the drug after cost overruns āemptied all the money boxes in the entire public health system.ā
For rural patients, getting cancer treatment close to home has always been difficult. And now chemotherapy deserts are expanding across the United States as hospitals winnow services to save money, creating financial and logistical hurdles for people seeking lifesaving care.
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