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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups.
This week, we explain an old policy gathering...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 17:51
A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans.
This week, reporter Alice Miranda...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 19:26
Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 11:27
Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 13:51
After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse.
Could ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:23
Debates in state capitols over how to fill gaps in the country's COVID-weary health workforce are reigniting long-standing turf wars among professi...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 18:42
A federal rule requires providers to start giving patients easier access to much more of their health care data, but it’s fraught with implementati...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 16:55
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 16:16
