Planned Parenthood to Blitz GOP Seats, Betting Abortion Fears Can Sway Voters ( kffhealthnews.org )
Trump official who OK'd drugs from Canada chairs company behind Florida's import plan ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Food and Drug Administration’s unprecedented approval of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after Alex Azar, as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, certified that bringing medicines over the border could be done safely....
'I’m not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion ( kffhealthnews.org )
Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom....
Republicans Are Downplaying Abortion, but It Keeps Coming Up ( kffhealthnews.org )
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Colorado dropped Medicaid enrollees as red states have, alarming advocates for the poor ( kffhealthnews.org )
Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program....
GOP’s Tim Sheehy Revives Discredited Abortion Claims in Pivotal Senate Race ( kffhealthnews.org )
Fake Therapist Fooled Hundreds Online Until She Died, State Records Say ( kffhealthnews.org )
California Leaders Tussle With Health Industry Over Billions of New Dollars for Medi-Cal ( kffhealthnews.org )
Medicaid for Millions in America Hinges on Deloitte-Run Systems Plagued by Errors ( kffhealthnews.org )
Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments ( kffhealthnews.org )
Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals ( 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....
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....
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl ( kffhealthnews.org )
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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....
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....
Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor ( kffhealthnews.org )
Mississippi Lacks Black Doctors, Even as Lawmakers Increasingly Target Diversity Programs ( kffhealthnews.org )
Heat Rules for California Workers Would Also Help Keep Schoolchildren Cool ( kffhealthnews.org )
He Fell Ill on a Cruise. Before He Boarded the Rescue Boat, They Handed Him the Bill. ( 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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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....