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Nursing Home Surprise: Advantage Plans May Shorten Stays to Less Time Than…
Susan Jaffe
After 11 days in a St. Paul, Minnesota, skilled nursing facility recuperating from a fall, Paula Christopherson,…
Mental Health Crisis Teams Aren’t Just for Cities Anymore
Tony Leys and Arielle Zionts
NEWTON, Iowa — Jeff White knows what can happen when 911 dispatchers receive a call about someone…
Severe Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds a Simple,…
Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News
I woke up in a strange bedroom with 24 electrodes glued all over my body and a plastic mask…
Journalists Dig In on the Fiscal Health of the Nation and Hospital Closures…
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on…
Listen: Grieving Families Face the Cruelest Bills
NPR’s “Consider This” podcast tells the stories of the Markow, Shickel, and Raspe familes. All had very sick infants who died…
Sports Programs in States in Northern Climes Face a New Opponent: Scorching…
BIGFORK, Mont. — On a recent afternoon, it was a crisp 70 degrees on the football field at the high school in this…
Watch: Their Baby Died. The Medical Bills Haunted Them.
Born with a congenital heart defect and other medical issues, Sterling Raspe lived just eight months. In that time, she needed…
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’…
Dr. Steven-Huy Han, a UCLA liver specialist, has prescribed Ocaliva to a handful of patients, although he’s not sure it…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: On Government Spending, Congress Decides Not to…
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,…
Centene Agrees to Pay Massachusetts $14 Million Over Medicaid Prescription…
Massachusetts has become the latest state to settle with health insurance giant Centene Corp. over allegations that it…