Maternity care costs significantly higher for racial and ethnic groups
A new study out today in JAMA Health Forum is the first to show that Black, Hispanic and Asian people ...
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Medicaid in the crosshairs, maybe
The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News' ...
In settling fraud case, New York Medicare Advantage insurer, CEO will pay up to $100M
A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to ...
Primary care clinicians key to achieving optimal cardiovascular health
Primary care clinicians and practices are uniquely positioned to help people achieve optimal cardiovascular health through screening, diagnosing and treating ...
The Medicare Advantage influence machine
Federal officials resolved more than a decade ago to crack down on whopping government overpayments to private Medicare Advantage health ...
Amid Medicaid ‘unwinding,’ many states wind up expansions
Trisha Byers left behind one crucial item when she moved to North Carolina last year to be closer to her ...
Misleading ads play key role in schemes to gin up unauthorized ACA sign-ups, lawsuit alleges
The government is giving away money! So say ads on a variety of social media platforms. Consumers, the ads claim, ...
California leaders tussle with health industry over billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal
Gov. Gavin Newsom, state lawmakers, and health industry leaders have a small window to reach an agreement on billions of ...
He fell ill on a cruise. Before he boarded the rescue boat, they handed him the bill.
Vincent Wasney and his fiancée, Sarah Eberlein, had never visited the ocean. They'd never even been on a plane. But ...
Millions were booted from Medicaid. The insurers that run it gained Medicaid revenue anyway.
Private Medicaid health plans lost millions of members in the past year as pandemic protections that prohibited states from dropping ...