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Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission

By Amy Maxmen March 19, 2024

Four years since the covid pandemic emerged, health care workers want rules that protect them during outbreaks. They worry the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of guidelines for hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities that provide health care.

Daily Edition for Monday, March 18, 2024

March 18, 2024

Mental health staffing, Proposition 1, Match Day, measles, covid misinfo, women’s health, psychedelic drugs, and more are in the news.

Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another

By Indira Khera March 18, 2024

Peer leaders can help ease the shortage of mental health providers and build trust through shared experiences, state health officials say. In 2022, California started allowing counties to use Medicaid dollars to pay them for their work.

As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back

By Renuka Rayasam March 18, 2024

After California passed the first law in the nation to limit the disavowed term “excited delirium,” bills in other states are being introduced to help end use of the diagnosis. But momentum is being met with resistance from law enforcement and first responder groups, who cite free speech.

Covid and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom

By Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker March 18, 2024

Demand for help monitoring patients’ vital signs remotely has taken off since a Medicare change in 2019. Dozens of companies now push the service to help overburdened primary care doctors — and as a revenue stream. But some policy experts say its growth has outpaced oversight and evidence of effectiveness.

Daily Edition for Friday, March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

Measles, fentanyl, long covid, homelessness, teen pregnancy, insurance networks, PBM reforms, and more are in the news.

A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highway

By Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom March 15, 2024

New federal funds aim to address an array of problems created by highway construction in minority neighborhoods. These are economic, social, and, perhaps above all, public health problems. In New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, competing plans for how to deal with harm done by the Claiborne Expressway reveal the challenge of how to mitigate them meaningfully.

How Your In-Network Health Coverage Can Vanish Before You Know It

By Elisabeth Rosenthal March 15, 2024

One of the most unfair aspects of medical insurance is this: Patients can change insurance only during end-of-year enrollment periods or at the time of “qualifying life events.” But insurers’ contracts with doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies can change abruptly at any time.

When Copay Assistance Backfires on Patients

By Julie Appleby March 15, 2024

Drugmakers offer copay assistance programs to patients, but insurers are tapping into those funds, not counting the amounts toward patient deductibles. That leads to unexpected charges. But the practice is under growing scrutiny.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Maybe It’s a Health Care Election After All

March 14, 2024

Health care wasn’t expected to be a major theme for this year’s elections. But as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured their respective party nominations this week, the future of both Medicare and the Affordable Care Act appears to be up for debate. Meanwhile, the cyberattack of the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Change Healthcare continues to do damage to the companies’ finances with no quick end in sight. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Kelly Henning of Bloomberg Philanthropies about a new, four-part documentary series on the history of public health, “The Invisible Shield.” Plus, for “extra credit” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too.

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