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States’ Efforts To Alter Arcane Hospital Rules Mix Politics With Drama - KFF Health News

How North Carolina Made Its Hospitals Do Something About Medical Debt - KFF Health News

State officials threatened to withhold public money from hospitals, pioneering a strategy that could become a national model.

Fighting Staff Shortages With Scholarships, California Bill Aims To Boost Mental Health Courts -...

A new bill would create a scholarship program for students who agree to work with specialized courts in California to get patients into treatment, but some people argue the state shouldn’t restrict...

Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift - KFF Health News

Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Critics Call Feds’ Response Feeble and Fractured. - KFF...

Health care weathered more ransomware attacks last year than any other sector, and that was before a debilitating February hack of payments manager Change Healthcare. Executives, lawyers, and...

Unpacking the FDA’s Non-Recall Recalls - KFF Health News

Arkansas’ Governor Says Medicaid Extension for New Moms Isn’t Needed - KFF Health News

Federal law requires states to provide pregnancy-related Medicaid coverage through 60 days after delivery. Arkansas has not expanded what’s called postpartum Medicaid coverage, an option that gives...

California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers - KFF Health News

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices. The bill sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom would require pharmacy benefit...

Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems - KFF Health News

Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system with the nation's largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, serves patients in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

Décadas de programas nacionales contra el suicidio no han frenado estas muertes - KFF Health News

Durante los últimos 20 años, funcionarios federales han lanzado tres estrategias nacionales de prevención del suicidio, incluida una anunciada en abril.

La tasa de personas sin seguro médico se mantiene estable, a pesar de la purga de Medicaid - KFF...

Aproximadamente el 8% de los estadounidenses no tuvieron cobertura en 2023, un aumento estadísticamente insignificante de solo 0.1 puntos porcentuales con respecto al año anterior.

Decades of National Suicide Prevention Policies Haven’t Slowed the Deaths - KFF Health News

Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of researchers and experts say the interventions will work — but that they’re simply...