Despite Losing Federal Money, California Is Still Testing Uninsured Residents for Covid — For Now
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is still offering free covid testing to uninsured residents even though the federal government ran out of money to
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Battle Lines Are Drawn Over California Deal With Kaiser Permanente
[Editor’s note: KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.] California counties, health insurance plans, community clinics, and a major
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: News You Might Have Missed
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: News You Might Have Missed
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Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes Triggers Capitol Hill Questions — And a GAO Probe
In his State of the Union address last month, President Joe Biden focused attention on how private equity ownership of nursing homes can affect
California Handed Its Medicaid Drug Program to One Company. Then Came a Corporate Takeover.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Prescription drug costs for California’s massive Medicaid program were draining the state budget, so in 2019 Gov. Gavin
Tennessee Offers to Expand Dental Schools as Medicaid Coverage Stretches Need
More than 600,000 additional Medicaid patients in Tennessee may soon be covered with comprehensive dental benefits under a proposal by Republican
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The ACA Turns 12
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Listen: An Unsettling Investigation Into the Closure of a Chain of Pain Clinics
Last spring, Lags Medical Centers, a sprawling chain of pain clinics serving more than 20,000 patients in California, abruptly shuttered amid a
Readers and Tweeters Have Mental Health Care on Their Minds
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‘Injections, Injections, Injections’: Troubling Questions Follow Closure of Sprawling Pain Clinic Chain
HANFORD, Calif. — On May 13 of last year, the cellphones of thousands of California residents undergoing treatment for chronic pain lit up with a
Inside the Tactical Tug of War Over the Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug
The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked federal officials’ decision to decline routine Medicare
Inside the Tactical Tug of War Over the Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug
[UPDATED at 12:30 p.m. ET] The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked federal officials’ decision to
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: FDA Takes Center Stage
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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars
The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country —