Dec. 26
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: the incoming Trump administration has signaled it may roll back federal efforts to reduce the burden of medical debt on Americans, and the nursing home industry hopes President-elect Trump will help block a new staffing requirement.
Dec. 19
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Hospitals can charge you for services you receive even if you never make it past the waiting room, and donations of human tissues like corneas don’t receive the same level of regulation as donations of organs like hearts or kidneys.
Dec. 12
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Community groups are working to restore the cemeteries of closed psychiatric hospitals, and some hospitals are looking for new ways to help patients keep up with the utility bills.
Dec. 5
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Leaders often fail to address racial health disparities even when they have data showing they exist, and state programs to import cheaper drugs from Canada are struggling to get off the ground.
Nov. 28
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Some hospitals are rethinking IV hydration amid a nationwide IV fluid shortage, and rattlesnake antivenom is cheap to make but expensive to receive.
Nov. 21
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: In states without abortion bans, programs are trying to train more types of medical personnel to offer abortion care. Separately, some OB-GYNs are asking pregnant patients to pay for their deliveries in advance.
Nov. 14
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Some Medicaid recipients with opioid use disorder lost access to life-saving treatment during what has been called the “unwinding,” and some doctors are charging extra for mammograms that include a check for signs of heart disease.
Nov. 7
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: DACA recipients can sign up for health plans under the Affordable Care Act for the first time, and some insurers and health care facilities are paying for ride-hailing services to get patients to appointments.
Oct. 31
This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Mobile clinics bring rural areas access to long-acting forms of birth control, and doctors say people have developed opioid addiction from drinking tea …