A Catch-22 for Clinics: State Bans Limit Abortion Counseling. Federal Title X Rules Require It.
By Rachana Pradhan
Family planning clinics are getting caught between state abortion bans and a federal requirement to refer patients for abortion care on request.
Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising — And Getting Weirder
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
The Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with monitoring denials both by Obamacare health plans and those offered through employers and insurers. As insurers’ denials become more common, they sometimes defy not just medical standards of care but sheer logic. Why hasn’t the agency fulfilled its assignment?
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': When an Anti-Vaccine Activist Runs for President
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s official entry into the presidential race poses a thorny challenge for journalists: how to cover a candidate who’s opposed to vaccines without amplifying misinformation. And South Carolina becomes the latest state in the South to ban abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani about her project to track the billions of dollars coming from opioid makers to settle lawsuits.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 25, 2023
Hospital bailouts, CalFresh, firefighter PTSD care, opioids, social media, birth declines, covid, and more are in the news.
California Hospitals Seek a Broad Bailout, but They Don’t All Need It
By Samantha Young and Angela Hart
As hospitals squeeze Democratic leaders in Sacramento for more money, health care finance experts and former state officials warn against falling for the industry’s fear tactics. They point to healthy profits and a recession-era financing scheme that allows rich hospitals to take tax money from poorer ones.
This Panel Will Decide Whose Medicine to Make Affordable. Its Choice Will Be Tricky.
By Markian Hawryluk
Colorado’s new Prescription Drug Affordability Board could cap what health plans and consumers pay for certain medications starting next year. The process will pit patient groups against one another.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The drug epidemic, covid, homelessness, rising medical costs, HIV declines, youth mental health, and more are in the news.
Refugios para víctimas de violencia doméstica dejan de esconderse
By Katheryn Houghton
Por mucho tiempo, el estándar para este tipo de refugios, también llamados casas de acogida, ha sido alojar a las víctimas de violencia doméstica en casas ocultas con direcciones secretas
A medida que bajan los niveles de agua, suben los de arsénico
By Melissa Bailey
A medida que el oeste lucha contra una mega sequía que ha durado más de dos décadas y los estados corren el riesgo de recortes en el agua del menguante río Colorado, el Valle de San Luis ofrece pistas sobre lo que el futuro puede deparar.
Domestic Violence Shelters Move Out of Hiding
By Katheryn Houghton
A new domestic violence shelter in Bozeman, Montana, reflects efforts nationwide to rethink the model that keeps survivors of abuse in hiding. But there are no guidelines for bringing shelters out into the open, leaving each to make it up as they go.
