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Daily Edition for Tuesday, October 10, 2023

October 10, 2023

A batch of new health laws, pain management, maternal health, covid, food safety, health worker strikes, and more are in the news.

Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the Parts Began to Fail.

By Fred Schulte October 10, 2023

In a torrent of lawsuits, patients accuse Florida device maker Exactech of hiding knee and hip implant defects for years. The company denies the allegations.

Epidemic: Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them

October 10, 2023

Trust is hard to build and easy to break. In Episode 6 of the “Eradicating Smallpox” podcast, meet Chandrakant Pandav, a health worker who used laughter and song to try to rebuild trust with communities harmed by India’s sometimes violent and coercive family planning campaign.

‘I’m So Burned Out’: Fighting to See a Specialist Amplified Pain for Riverside County Woman

By Molly Castle Work October 10, 2023

Teresa Johnson has been in extreme pain for more than a year after what she believes was a severe allergic reaction to iodine. Her Medi-Cal plan approved her referral to a specialist, but it took her numerous phone calls, multiple complaints, and several months to book an appointment.

Narcan, Now Available Without a Prescription, Can Still Be Hard to Get

By Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Nicole Leonard, WHYY October 6, 2023

Narcan is available without a prescription. Addiction treatment experts hope this move will increase access to the medication, which can reverse opioid overdoses. But hurdles remain: cost and stigma.

Trump Misplaced Blame When He Said Drug Shortages Were Biden’s Fault

By Michelle Andrews October 6, 2023

Former President Donald Trump, who’s running for another term in the White House, recently blamed drug shortages on his successor, President Joe Biden. Our findings don’t align with Trump’s claims; by some measures, drug shortages increased more on Trump’s watch than on Biden’s.

Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients

By Susan Jaffe October 5, 2023

Software sifts through millions of medical records to match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics and then predicts what kind of care an individual will need and for how long. New federal rules will ensure human experts are part of the process.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': An Encore: 3 HHS Secretaries Reveal What the Job Is Really Like

October 5, 2023

In this special encore episode, KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” asks three people who have served as the nation’s top health official: What does a day in the life of the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services look like? And how much of their agenda is set by the White House? Taped in June before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former HHS secretaries. Secretary Xavier Becerra and former secretaries Kathleen Sebelius and Alex Azar talk candidly about what it takes to run a department with more than 80,000 employees and a budget larger than those of many countries.

Social Security Chief Orders Broad Review of Benefit Overpayments

By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group October 4, 2023

In the wake of an investigation by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group, the SSA acting commissioner said a special team will review “overpayment policies and procedures” and report directly back to her.

Mothers of Color Can’t See if Providers Have a History of Mistreatment. Why Not?

By Sarah Kwon October 4, 2023

Many women, especially Black women, have reported discrimination in maternity care, but expectant mothers lack tools to see where this happens. Funding and regulations to measure disparities have been slow in arriving, but some innovators are trying to fill the void.

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