Big health insurers that have contracts with state Medicaid programs find themselves making more money even as enrollment in Medicaid programs has dropped. Here’s why.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-unwinding-insurer-revenue/
For the second time in as many months, the Supreme Court heard arguments in an abortion case. This time, the justices are being asked to decide whether a federal law that requires emergency care ...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/what-the-health-344-abortion-supreme-court-april-25-2024/
California state lawmakers this year are continuing their progressive tilt on health policy, debating bills banning an ingredient in Froot Loops and offering free condoms for high schoolers.
Some of the nearly 130,000 Montanans who have lost Medicaid coverage as the state reevaluates eligibility are homeless. That’s in part because Montana kicked more than 80,000 people off the pro...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/unsheltered-people-losing-medicaid-redetermination-paperwork/
Congress this week had the chance to formally air grievances over the cascading consequences of the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and lawmakers from both major parties agreed on one culprit: con...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/what-the-health-343-health-care-consolidation-april-18-2024/
Las protecciones que tuvo el programa durante la pandemia, que impedían que se expulsaran beneficiarios, expiraron la primavera pasada.
A first-of-its-kind survey of Medicaid enrollees found that nearly a quarter who were dropped from the program in the last year’s unwinding say they’re uninsured.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/quarter-medicaid-disenrolled-uninsured-kff-survey/
In this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann tells a horror story. Instead of monsters and aliens, it’s about private health insurance companies and algorithms that call the sh...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/attack-of-the-medicare-machines/
En Denver, la inestabilidad de la vivienda, las barreras del idioma, la falta de transporte y el "costo astronómico" de la odontología sin seguro hacen que la atención dental sea inaccesible p...
More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in America’s dental deserts.