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A Covid Test Medicare Scam May Be a Trial Run for Further Fraud
Medicare coverage for at-home covid-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit…
Thousands Face Medicaid Whiplash in South Dakota and North Carolina
Arielle Zionts
Until recently, Jonathon Murray relied on Medicaid to pay for treatments for multiple health conditions,…
State Lawmakers Eye Forced Treatment to Address Overlap in Homelessness and…
April Dembosky, KQED and Amelia Templeton, Oregon Public Broadcasting and Carrie Feibel, NPR
Many of the unhoused people in…
Lawyer Fees Draw Scrutiny as Camp Lejeune Claims Stack Up
Michelle Andrews
David and Adair Keller started their married life together in 1977 at Camp Lejeune, a military training base…
An AI Chatbot May Be Your Next Therapist. Will It Actually Help Your Mental…
Elisabeth Rosenthal
In the past few years, 10,000 to 20,000 apps have stampeded into the mental health space, offering to…
Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths…
Liz Szabo, KFF Health News
Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.…
Michael Milken Wants to Speed Up Cures
Years ago, a top chemical biologist pondered ditching his cancer research to take a more lucrative commission growing…
La inteligencia artificial puede estar llegando a los consultorios, pero no…
¿Qué uso podría tener para la atención médica alguien que inventa cosas, no puede guardar un secreto, realmente no sabe…
Journalists Give Status Reports on the ‘Personhood’ Debate and the HIV…
KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Bram Sable-Smith discussed personhood laws in Missouri and beyond on “Texas Standard” and…
ER Doctors Vow to Pursue Case Against Envision Even in Bankruptcy
Bernard J. Wolfson
If Envision Healthcare files for bankruptcy, a group of emergency room doctors would seek permission to…