News Prescribing Love: Send Us Your Health Policy Valentines Greg Hartmann Jan 26, 2024 Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on…
News Ouch. That ‘Free’ Annual Checkup Might Cost You. Here’s Why. Greg Hartmann Jan 26, 2024 Elisabeth Rosenthal When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she…
News Senate Probes the Cost of Assisted Living and Its Burden on American… Greg Hartmann Jan 25, 2024 A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday launched an examination of assisted living, holding its first hearing in two decades…
News The FTC Escalates Biden’s Fight Against Drug Prices Greg Hartmann Jan 25, 2024 It’s daggers out at the Federal Trade Commission in its fight against anticompetitive practices in health care. This…
News The Colonoscopies Were Free. But the ‘Surgical Trays’ Came With $600 Price… Greg Hartmann Jan 25, 2024 Chantal Panozzo and her husband followed their primary care doctors’ orders last year after they both turned 45, now the…
News Una decisión difícil: cuando los adultos mayores tienen que dejar de… Greg Hartmann Jan 24, 2024 Lewis Morgenstern ha tomado una decisión. Cuando cumpla 65, dentro de cuatro años, va a firmar una directiva anticipada…
News In Los Angeles, Occupational Therapists Tapped to Help Homeless Stay Housed Greg Hartmann Jan 24, 2024 LOS ANGELES ― Carla Brown waits on an air mattress, eager for her occupational therapist to arrive at her apartment next…
News 988-Hotline Counselors Air Concerns: More Training Needed to Juggle a Mix… Greg Hartmann Jan 24, 2024 In the year and a half since its launch, 988 — the country’s easy-to-remember, three-digit suicide and crisis hotline —…
News Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age Greg Hartmann Jan 24, 2024 Judith Graham Lewis Morgenstern has made up his mind. When he turns 65 in four years, he’s going to sign an advance directive…
News Medicare Advantage Is Popular, but Some Beneficiaries Feel Buyer’s Remorse Greg Hartmann Jan 23, 2024 Medicare Advantage plans are booming — 30.8 million of the 60 million Americans with Medicare are now enrolled in the…