Category: NPR

Medicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients

One in 5 Medicare patients who leaves the hospital for a nursing home ends up back in the hospital. The federal government will soon use bonuses and penalties to try to lower readmissions.

Trump’s Redirection Of Family Planning Funds Could Undercut STD Fight

Some public health officials fear Trump’s move to change how the Title X family planning funding is handled may hurt the effort to cut the record number of sexually transmitted infections in the U.S.