Patient portals make it easier to message your doctor with health questions. But did you know those emails might cost you?
Our analysis looks at charges for emails with doctors and other providers
⁦KFF⁩ ⁦Peterson Center on Healthcare⁩ ⁦Krutika Amin⁩ healthsystemtracker.org/brief/charges-…

🧵1/@STATNews reports on the desolate state of the US response to 1 million drug overdose deaths in “How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic”

It’s all the more discouraging because I've been blunt about the imbalanced US policy

NEW: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created after the Great Recession of 2007-09, has increasingly started policing the health care system.

Noam Levey reports: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

Congratulations to KFF Health News and CBS News, winners of the 2023 George Polk Award for Medical Journalism for their investigation into medical device malfunctions and the impact on patients!

Check out the award-winning reporting: bit.ly/3SZ2dgW

“I feel like I’m living in a state that doesn’t care for me.”
Lawmakers in Southern states are reconsidering their opposition to Medicaid expansion in light of strong public support for the policy & pleas from hospitals.
kffhealthnews.org/MTgxNDM2Nw via @kffhealthnews Georgia Health News

What can even be said? I'm sorry Los Angeles Times colleagues, & I'm sorry for California & national & international readers. If you want there to be *any* strong journalistic institutions west of the Mississippi, if you want journalism to survive, Pay. For. Your. News. *People* make it.

The Princeton Pulse takes on medical debt, a pervasive and uniquely American problem. Princeton School of Public & International Affairs's Heather Howard discusses the latest research, drivers, and consequences with Noam Levey from KFF Health News, and Eva Stahl from RIP Medical Debt. tinyurl.com/2s353ysn

A byproduct of our dysfunctional health care financing system is that it's possible to buy out medical debt for pennies on the dollar because patients are so unlikely to be able to pay off the debt.

We sat down with NPR to share one family's story and discuss what's being done to understand and prevent medical errors at hospitals across the country. Listen to our conversation with Ayesha Rascoe at The Sunday Story from Up First: ow.ly/rL0S50QsVVm

The fact that the Biden Administration has achieved record enrollment in the ACA with improved affordability becomes more and more politically salient every time Trump vows once again to try to repeal and replace Obamacare.

This mechanical pump is considered primarily for patients with end-stage heart failure, even then only as a last resort. But do patients know what they’re getting into? KFF Health News CBS News Holly Hacker
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A chronic health diagnosis and medical debt reordered Sharon Woodward’s life.

Reported by Noam Levey, video produced by Hannah Norman. Watch Woodard's full story here: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/w…

A chronic health diagnosis and medical debt reordered Sharon Woodward’s life.

Reported by Noam Levey, video produced by Hannah Norman. Watch Woodard's story here: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/w…

UnitedHealth Group now employs or is affiliated with 10% of all physicians in the U.S. statnews.com/2023/11/29/uni… via STAT

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and you can either talk politics (hard pass) or about something that affects so many families: the cost of long-term care. Here's a thread of our NYT Health - KFF Health News stories 1/

LAist correspondent Josie Huang has reached a $700,000 settlement with L.A. County after she was thrown to the ground, pinned, handcuffed and arrested by sheriff’s deputies while documenting a 2020 arrest during a protest in Lynwood. laist.com/news/criminal-…

Tennessee told the family of a disabled man, who was on TennCare for 31 years, that he no longer qualified. As his parents tried to protect his insurance, he died of pneumonia. Then the state said it was an error. Medicaid horror from KFF Health News: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

Medical Debt Is Disappearing From Americans’ Credit Reports, Lifting Scores kffhealthnews.org/MTc2NzY0OQ via @kffhealthnews

While most people think of gun violence as largely an urban phenomenon, in fact, it is rife in rural areas, particularly in the Deep South.

Renuka Rayasam reports on how poverty and discrimination are driving rural gun deaths: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/g…