He Fell Ill on a Cruise. Before He Boarded the Rescue Boat, They Handed Him the Bill. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments ( kffhealthnews.org )
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Biden Administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so....
FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries ( kffhealthnews.org )
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced Monday....
As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Ten doctors on FDA panel reviewing Abbott heart device had financial ties with company ( kffhealthnews.org )
When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted research it had funded — information readily available in a federal database....
More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System ( kffhealthnews.org )
First, her favorite doctor in Providence, Rhode Island, retired. Then her other doctor at a health center a few miles away left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system....
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl ( kffhealthnews.org )
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As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back ( kffhealthnews.org )
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony....
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health ( kffhealthnews.org )
Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because of a law Tennessee passed last year that requires the direct consent of birth parents or legal guardians...
Whistleblower accuses Aledade, largest US independent primary care network, of Medicare fraud ( kffhealthnews.org )
A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it cheated Medicare out of millions of dollars using billing software “rigged” to make patients appear sicker than they were....
Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States ( kffhealthnews.org )
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth....
Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary ( kffhealthnews.org )
Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It's Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School ( kffhealthnews.org )
Lawsuits claim South Carolina kids underwent unnecessary genital exams during abuse investigations ( kffhealthnews.org )
Three ongoing federal lawsuits filed in South Carolina accuse the state of forcing boys and girls to undergo traumatic genital exams during child abuse investigations, even when no allegations of sexual abuse have been raised....
Pregnancy care was always lacking in jails. It could get worse. ( kffhealthnews.org )
It was about midnight in June 2022 when police officers showed up at Angela Collier’s door and told her that someone anonymously requested a welfare check because they thought she might have had a miscarriage....
Death and Redemption in an American Prison ( kffhealthnews.org )
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury found them guilty of second-degree murder. They were sentenced...
Patients See First Savings From Biden’s Drug Price Push, as Pharma Lines Up Its Lawyers ( kffhealthnews.org )
Do We Simply Not Care About Old People? ( kffhealthnews.org )
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults....
FDA's Plan to Ban Hair Relaxer Chemical Called Too Little, Too Late ( kffhealthnews.org )
In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products....
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ ( kffhealthnews.org )
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
Possibility of wildlife-to-human crossover heightens concern about chronic wasting disease ( kffhealthnews.org )
Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. Over the winter, people chow down on the venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from the animals....
