Executives at state-based insurance exchanges have written a letter to healthcare leaders in the Senate expressing concern over the contents of the Republican-led “Big Beautiful Bill,” saying proposals in the legislation would likely drive up costs for…
The House’s gigantic tax-and-spending budget reconciliation bill has landed with a thud in the Senate, where lawmakers are divided in their criticism over whether it increases the deficit too much or cuts Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act too deeply. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that the bill, if enacted, could increase the ranks of the uninsured by nearly 11 million people over a decade won’t make it an easy sell. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Arielle Zionts, who reported and wrote the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about a Medicaid patient who had an out-of-state emergency.
Incorporating health-related social needs data into electronic health records is an increasingly integral part of accountable care performance in healthcare, but there’s no real consensus on how to best capture and manage this data.
In this JAMA Health Forum column, Larry Levitt highlights how the Make America Healthy Again agenda aimed at chronic disease does little to address the affordability of health care and that efforts to lower federal spending on health care may worsen th…
Fired Health and Human Services staffers have brought a lawsuit claiming the April 1 termination of thousands of federal workers was unlawful due to the use of faulty personnel records.
Sacramento-based Sutter Health, a 24-hospital health system serving patients in northern California, is putting up $23 million to invest in primary and behavioral healthcare in Del Norte and Lake counties.
The Trump administration has rescinded July 2022 guidance that allowed physicians to perform emergency abortions.
A Centene subsidiary is now facing a lawsuit filed by the mother of a deceased member in Arizona for allegedly failing to provide adequate access to mental health coverage.
Social health company Pxy Health, which sometimes works with health plans to reach vulnerable populations, has acquired FarmboxRx, a healthcare food company that features fresh fruits and vegetables as a covered health intervention.
The acquisition cam…
The domestic policy legislation the House advanced in May includes the most substantial rollback of the Affordable Care Act since President Donald Trump and his Republican allies tried to pass legislation in 2017 that would have largely repealed President Barack Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment.
