Category: Medicine

Durante un tiempo, pasear al perro se volvió peligroso. Earl Vickers solía sacar a Molly, su perra mezcla de pastor read more

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous. Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls read more

The Host Oct. 1 is the start of the next fiscal year, and unless Congress reaches agreement on continued spending, read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

Felice J. Freyer BRISTOL, R.I. — At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, read more

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to read more

The Host Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that the federal government will cancel nearly $500 read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

Jordan Rau, KFF Health News Federal health officials do not inform consumers about severe safety violations in hospitals that specialize read more

Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe read more

Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

Dan Weissmann In response to the high price of prescription drugs, “An Arm and a Leg” asked listeners to share read more

The Host Early Thursday afternoon, the House approved a budget reconciliation bill that not only would make permanent many of read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

In a top-rated nursing home in Alexandria, Virginia, the Rev. Donald Goodness is cared for by nurses and aides from read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

LIBBY, Mont. — Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from read more

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

A blockbuster lawsuit from the federal Department of Justice alleges that insurers Aetna, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), and Humana paid read more

[*] When people call large insurance brokerages seeking free assistance in choosing Medicare Advantage plans, they’re often offered assurances such read more

NEW YORK — On a recent visit to Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, some floors in the mammoth office building read more

Dan Weissmann News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like read more

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead read more

The Host Members of Congress are back in Washington this week, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to read more

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill read more

Arielle Zionts Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo read more

Rachana Pradhan and Aneri Pattani Illustration by Oona Zenda The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would read more

The Host Two months into the new administration, federal workers and contractors remain off-balance as the Trump administration ramps up read more

Suz Redfearn “Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We read more

The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the read more

The Host Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already acting on his anti-vaccine views, ordering an read more

President Donald Trump’s health officials want you to take your vitamins. Mehmet Oz, the nominee to lead the Centers for read more

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired read more

The Host Can the Trump administration refuse to spend money appropriated through Congress by firing federal workers and canceling existing read more

More than three years ago, health insurance giant Centene Corp. settled allegations that it overcharged Medicaid programs in Ohio and read more

Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer. read more

Like many Americans who voted for Donald Trump, Jason Rouse hopes the president’s return will mean lower prices for gas, read more

Probablemente pocos votantes esperaban que el presidente Donald Trump, en sus primeras semanas de mandato, recortara miles de millones de read more

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from read more

Medicaid is under threat — again. Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

The Host Confusion continues to reign at the Department of Health and Human Services, where policies seem to be changing read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to read more

Medicare officials are pushing back against a federal watchdog’s call to crack down on home visits by Medicare Advantage health read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace read more

A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Fred Schulte, KFF Health News KFF Health News has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of read more

A new federal watchdog audit is ratcheting up pressure on government officials to crack down on billions of dollars in read more

RICHMOND, Vt. — On a warm autumn morning, Roger Brown walked through a grove of towering trees whose sap fuels read more

Stephanie Armour Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that read more

El triunfo electoral del ex presidente Donald Trump y su regreso a la Casa Blanca probablemente traerán cambios que reducirían read more

On the campaign trail, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are eager to portray themselves as read more

Joanne Kenen Maria Sanchez immigrated to the Chicago area from Mexico about 30 years ago. Now 87, she’s still living read more

Joanne Kenen María Sánchez emigró al área de Chicago desde México hace unos 30 años. Ahora, a sus 87, sigue read more

The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill read more

The Host As abortion and other reproductive issues gain more prominence in the looming election, some Republicans are trying to read more

Cuando Pam McClure se enteró que el próximo año ahorraría casi $4,000 en sus medicamentos recetados dijo: “parece demasiado bueno read more

When Pam McClure learned she’d save nearly $4,000 on her prescription drugs next year, she said, “it sounded too good read more

When Lyft driver Tramaine Carr transports seniors and sick patients to hospitals in Atlanta, she feels like both a friend read more

The Host As part of a media blitz aimed at women voters, Vice President Kamala Harris this week rolled out read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Jacob Gardenswartz “Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.” read more

Federal officials resolved more than a decade ago to crack down on whopping government overpayments to private Medicare Advantage health read more

The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News @emmarieDC Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as read more

The Host As expected, the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris offered few new read more

La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de read more

LOS ANGELES — For nearly a decade, John Baackes has led L.A. Care Health Plan, a publicly run insurer primarily read more

Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination read more

En medio de una amarga y divisiva contienda, el ex presidente Donald Trump y la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris solo parecen read more

Fred Schulte, KFF Health News A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from read more

Elisabeth Rosenthal A hard-won provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their family’s health insurance read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Federal regulators have blocked two private sector enrollment websites from accessing consumer information through the federal Obamacare marketplace, citing “anomalous read more

Stephanie Armour La elección de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris del gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, como su compañero de fórmula read more

Jacob Gardenswartz “Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She read more

ATLANTA — At the shuttered Atlanta Medical Center, a “Stronger Together” mural sends a hopeful message near a summer spray read more

The Affordable Care Act is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Facing an ultracompetitive market in one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities, UF Health is trying a new read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Many people have gotten used to rolling up their sleeves for flu and covid-19 vaccines. New immunizations are also available read more

The Host As Vice President Kamala Harris appears poised to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, health policy in general read more

Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, he leaned on the outspoken former prosecutor and senator he selected as his vice president, Kamala read more

A lo largo de su presidencia, Joe Biden se apoyó en Kamala Harris, la ex fiscal y senadora frontal que read more

The government is giving away money! So say ads on a variety of social media platforms. Consumers, the ads claim, read more

LOS ANGELES — They distribute GPS devices so they can track their homeless patients. They stock their street kits with read more

No talk of Obamacare. Or abortion. At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, where delegates officially nominated Donald read more

Ni una palabra sobre el Obamacare o el aborto. En la Convención Nacional Republicana en Milwaukee esta semana, donde los read more

Jacob Gardenswartz “Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked read more

SACRAMENTO — When then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for nearly all Californians to buy health insurance or face a penalty, Anthony read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, read more

A landmark Supreme Court decision that reins in federal agencies’ authority is expected to hold dramatic consequences for the nation’s read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Dancing at Birnamwood Polka Days, a festival in Birnamwood, Wisconsin.(Angela Hart/KFF Health News) Polka festivals are common across Wisconsin, especially read more

Deloitte, a global consultancy that reported revenue last year of $65 billion, pulls in billions of dollars from states and read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Medical research has shortchanged women for decades. This is particularly true of older women, leaving physicians without critically important information read more

The Host A unanimous Supreme Court turned back a challenge to the FDA’s approval and rules for the abortion pill read more

The steep prices — and popularity — of Ozempic and similar weight-loss and diabetes drugs could soon make them a read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

The Host A new analysis finds that graduating medical students were less likely to apply this year for residency training read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Nearly a decade ago, Medicare launched a program to help the two-thirds of beneficiaries with chronic conditions by paying their read more

Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still read more

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing read more

Dan Weissmann Covering the American health care system means we tell some scary stories. This episode of “An Arm and read more

Federal and state regulators aren’t doing enough to stop the growing problem of rogue health insurance brokers making unauthorized policy read more

Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries “was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Some consumers covered by Affordable Care Act insurance plans are being switched from one plan to another without their express read more

En enero, Susanne Gilliam, de 67 años, estaba yendo a recoger el correo afuera de su casa cuando se cayó read more

Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that read more

The Host In its first abortion case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court this read more

Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on read more

Online stores sprang up during the covid-19 pandemic’s telehealth boom touting testosterone as a cure-all for men’s age-related illnesses — read more

The Host The Affordable Care Act was signed into law 14 years ago this week, and Health and Human Services read more

Amy Sherman, PolitiFact We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those read more

Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff read more

Dan Weissmann Medicare may sound like an escape from the expensive world of U.S. health insurance, but it’s more complicated, read more

President Joe Biden touted his administration’s accomplishments in health care in a wide-ranging State of the Union address on Thursday read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

A Maryland firm that oversees the nation’s largest independent network of primary care medical practices is facing a whistleblower lawsuit read more

President Joe Biden is counting on outrage over abortion restrictions to help drive turnout for his reelection. Former President Donald read more

Judith Graham It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Every time my husband called his father, who was 94 read more

Debra Prichard was a retired factory worker who was careful with her money, including what she spent on medical care, read more

The Host The Alabama Supreme Court’s groundbreaking ruling last week that frozen embryos have legal rights as people has touched read more

Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines. The read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Los médicos en Valley-Wide Health Systems nunca saben quién se presentará en su clínica en San Luis, un pueblo de read more

Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about read more

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity read more

HANOVER, N.H. — Health care issues are important to Lana Leggett-Kealey, who works as a genetic genealogist. But on Tuesday, read more

Medicare Advantage plans are booming — 30.8 million of the 60 million Americans with Medicare are now enrolled in the read more

As enrollment in private Medicare Advantage plans grows, so do concerns about how well the coverage works, including from people read more

En la campaña presidencial, el ex presidente Donald Trump está prometiendo, una vez más, derogar y reemplazar la Ley de read more

On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care read more

The race to win the quickly approaching Iowa caucuses was the theme running through Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate hosted read more

En 2016, Richard Timmins fue a un seminario informativo gratuito para aprender más sobre la cobertura de Medicare. “Escuché al read more

In 2016, Richard Timmins went to a free informational seminar to learn more about Medicare coverage. “I listened to the read more

The Host Even without covid dominating the headlines, 2023 was a busy year for health policy. The ever-rising cost of read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Medical advances are expensive. Take Wegovy, the wildly successful obesity drug that we learned last week may also reduce the read more

Medicare Advantage plans are pretty popular with both lawmakers and ordinary Americans — they now enroll about 31 million people, read more

A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska read more

Susan Jaffe After an unprecedented crackdown on misleading advertising claims by insurers selling private Medicare Advantage and drug plans, the read more

Susan Jaffe Después de una ofensiva sin precedentes contra las publicidades engañosas de las aseguradoras que venden planes privados de read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that read more

Susan Jaffe Angela M. Du Bois, a retired software tester in Durham, North Carolina, wasn’t looking to replace her UnitedHealthcare read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more