KFF Health News
3 days ago · About KFF Health News. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. Check out our award-winning investigations and stories.
Welcome to KFF Health News
Welcome to KFF Health News. In these dire times for the news industry, the birth of a news organization is a rare bright spot. We hope KFF Health News will make a vital contribution by covering health care policy and politics, as well as trends in the industry and delivery of care. With an historic debate on the health system underway, we’re ...
Medicare Drug Plans Are Getting Better Next Year. Some Will Also …
Oct 21, 2024 · CMS said Sept. 27 that nationwide the average Medicare drug plan premium fell about $1.63 a month — about 4% — from last year. “People enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan will continue to see stable premiums and will have ample choices of affordable Part D plans,” CMS said in a statement. However, an analysis by KFF, a health information ...
About Us - KFF Health News
KFF Health News Leadership. Alex Wayne, Executive Editor, previously worked for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidencies and reported on health care policy, including the development of the Affordable Care Act.In 2020, he helped manage and edit articles about the coronavirus’ infiltration of Trump’s White House that won the Gerald R. Ford ...
Hospitals and Doctors Are Fed up With Medicare Advantage
Nov 29, 2023 · Medicare Advantage plans are pretty popular with both lawmakers and ordinary Americans — they now enroll about 31 million people, representing just over half of everyone in Medicare, by KFF’s count. But among doctors and hospitals, it’s a different story. Across the country, provider grumbling about claim denials and onerous preapproval requirements by Advantage plans […]
Mountain Town Confronts an Unexpected Public Health Catastrophe
By Kim Dinan October 18, 2024. Shelves at the Publix grocery store in Weaverville, North Carolina, were largely empty on Sept. 30. Since then, supplies have begun to flow back into the region. (Kim Dinan for KFF Health News) Before Hurricane Helene, had you stopped by one of the many breweries, art galleries, or award-winning restaurants in ...
LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election
Oct 17, 2024 · The Affordable Care Act has not been a major issue in the 2024 campaign, but abortion and reproductive rights have been front and center. Those are just two of the dozens of health issues that could be profoundly affected by who is elected president and which party controls Congress in 2025. In this special live episode, Tamara Keith of NPR, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Cynthia Cox ...
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?' Archives - KFF Health News
5 days ago · In this special live episode, Tamara Keith of NPR, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Cynthia Cox and Ashley Kirzinger of KFF join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how health policy has affected the campaign and how the election results might affect health policy. Plus, the panel answers questions from ...
Should Older Seniors Risk Major Surgery? New Research Offers …
Nov 28, 2022 · Advanced age also amplifies risk: Patients who were 90 or older were six times as likely to die than those ages 65 to 69. The study in JAMA Surgery, published by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, addresses a notable gap in research: Though patients 65 and older undergo nearly 40% of all surgeries in the U.S., detailed national data about ...
Podcasts Archive - KFF Health News
By Dan Weissmann October 29, 2024 Podcast. In this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann sits down with KFF Health News’ Cara Anthony to talk about the documentary and podcast series she produced about the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community.