Health Care Costs

A 48 horas de su nacimiento en un hospital del área de Seattle en 2021, Layla Babayev fue sometida a una cirugía por una obstrucción intestinal. Dos semanas después, tuvo otra cirugía de emergencia. Luego desarrolló meningitis. Layla pasó más de un mes en terapia intensiva neonatal en tres hospitales mientras los médicos buscaban la causa […]

A Senate committee finally held a hearing Wednesday on President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health. But the panel’s chair, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was focused on drug prices — an issue over which the NIH has very little control. After introducing the nominee, Monica Bertagnolli, at a hearing of the […]

The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — and where — health care is delivered. As of Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began allowing public and private […]

KFF Health News chief rural health correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed Dollar General mobile clinics on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Oct. 11. Click here to hear Tribble on “All Things Considered” Read Tribble’s “What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America” KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri […]

KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed her ongoing series exploring how opioid legal settlement funds are being spent, who makes those decisions, and who will benefit from the funds already in circulation in Wisconsin on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show” on Sept. 27. Click here to hear Pattani on “The Morning Show” […]

From the start of the second Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 campaign, the seven candidates on stage were boisterous and unruly. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and North Dakota […]

The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt on Thursday, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid medical bills from affecting patients’ credit scores. The regulations, if enacted, would potentially help tens of millions of people who have medical debt on their credit reports, eliminating information that can depress […]

Rick Jaenisch se sometió a tratamiento seis veces hasta que curó su hepatitis C en 2017. Cada vez que sus médicos le recomendaban una combinación diferente de fármacos, su aseguradora rechazaba la solicitud inicialmente para, luego,  aprobarla. Este proceso llegó a retrasar su atención durante meses, incluso después de que desarrollara una enfermedad hepática terminal […]

Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied the initial request before eventually approving it. This sometimes delayed his care for months, even after he developed end-stage liver disease and was awaiting a liver transplant. […]

Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, hit the market for as little as $995 a month, the opportunity for savings […]