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More than 3,000 nursing homes reported less than a week鈥檚 worth of supplies, and 653 said they had run out entirely at some point. Stopgap FEMA equipment has not reached many facilities, and packages that have arrived have fallen short of promises.
KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories 鈥 so you don鈥檛 have to.
At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that received $20 billion in emergency HHS funding, have paid criminal penalties or settled charges related to improper billing and other practices.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
The Supreme Court this week, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that insurers are due the roughly $12 billion that Congress several years ago tried to cut off in payments under the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 鈥渞isk corridors鈥 provision. And while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in many places around the country, states are starting to reopen their economies at the urging of President Donald Trump and over objections of public health officials. Caitlin Owens of Axios and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 installment about COVID testing that should have been free but was not.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
HHS said this test would 鈥渟ave personal protective equipment.鈥 But Abbott鈥檚 very design 鈥 devised for mobile testing 鈥 means those working with specimens need even more protection, experts warn.
Language in the CARES Act says providers who take emergency funding cannot balance-bill coronavirus patients 鈥 and 鈥渆very patient鈥 is considered a possible COVID-19 patient.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
In the first round of emergency relief, some states will get more than $300,000 per COVID-19 patient, while hard-hit New York gets just $12,000 per patient.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
The spread of COVID-19 is prompting changes in pricing, coverage and other health care issues that have been subjects of political debate for years. But the politics remain polarized. Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week that they think you should read, too.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
States urgently need millions of tests, and the game changer they鈥檝e been waiting on falls well short of what is needed, according to government documents obtained by KHN.
As President Donald Trump called the nation 鈥渋n good shape鈥 to handle COVID-19, a cache of emails released by officials in Washington state show that top public health authorities feared gear shortages and doctor safety in the early epicenter of sickness and deaths.
On KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health? 鈥 podcast, the former secretary of Health and Human Services says she continued to believe during the debate 10 years ago on the health law that it would eventually gain some Republican support. But that never happened.
Nationwide, testing for coronavirus is ramping up. But the supply of specialty swabs needed to collect potential coronavirus specimens can鈥檛 keep up with demand, creating a bottleneck in testing capabilities. So two top manufacturers are working with U.S. and Italian governments to increase production.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Patients would have far more control over their health care with complete medical histories stored on their phones, proponents say.
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