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At the start of the spring planting season, farmers across the U.S. heartland were already trying to recover from last year鈥檚 flooding amid worsening economic conditions when the pandemic struck. Farm bankruptcies and suicides continue to climb. A lack of mental health resources in rural America makes finding help more complicated.
Despite intense lobbying for a piece of the $100 billion bailout pot, big New York hospitals and rural systems alike say they aren鈥檛 getting a fair share.
Twins Edna Mayes and Ethel Sylvester, 92, are relying on each other through the pandemic, in which one of the hidden dangers is to their mental health.
About 1 in 5 U.S. residents live in multigenerational households. Many of those have three or more generations all under one roof. While the living arrangement has financial and emotional benefits, those families face a unique set of challenges as COVID-19 continues to spread.
A coalition of anesthesiologists wants to repurpose the country's more than 5,000 surgery centers to serve as emergency overflow amid the coronavirus pandemic. The centers have trained medical staff largely sitting idle, anesthesia machines that could be turned into ventilators, and empty medical space. But obstacles such as federal payment rules, logistics and some skepticism are getting in the way.
Almost half of the nation's rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, rural hospital CEOs warn that soon some may be unable to pay their workers. And their doors may close when the community most needs them.
The COVID-19 outbreak has spawned confusion among health officials, doctors and the public, especially for people who fall into the gray area for testing and deciding whether they need to quarantine themselves. Where to turn for answers about isolation and quarantine varies by locale. All this means agencies are sometimes delaying needed advice and giving people incorrect information.
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber was interviewed by KBIA鈥檚 Sebasti谩n Mart铆nez Valdivia to discuss the challenges Missouri faces in managing patients鈥 pain amid the opioid epidemic.
While Missouri has yet to have a confirmed case of coronavirus, the threat of the disease is siphoning resources from an already stretched-thin public health system.
In the first nine months of an alternative pain management program in Missouri, only a small fraction of the state鈥檚 Medicaid recipients have accessed the chiropractic care, acupuncture, physical therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy meant to combat the overprescription of opioids.
St. Louis trauma surgeon Dr. Laurie Punch is on a mission to stop the bleeding of her patients and the violence-plagued communities around her. But the single mom worries she and her 7-year-old will have to move from their home, where bullets buzz in her backyard.
Legionnaires鈥 disease cases hit an all-time high in 2018, with eight times more cases than 20 years ago. Even though many facilities in Missouri and elsewhere have water management plans in place to deal with the potentially deadly disease, they are still finding the underlying bacteria that causes it in their water.
Federal officials unveil new ratings for the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 marketplace plans. Missouri is one of eight states that has no plans earning at least three stars on a five-star scale.
State borders can highlight Medicaid鈥檚 arbitrary coverage. On the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, low-income people struggle with untreated health issues. But on the Illinois side, people in similar straits can get health care because their state expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act.
Amid an overall crackdown on private insurers鈥 Medicare billing practices, a new government audit and a whistleblower suit allege St. Louis-based Essence Group Holdings Corp.'s Medicare Advantage plans overcharged taxpayers.
An enhanced government effort to catch insurers that overcharge Medicare faces resistance from the insurance industry.
A national trend of boozeless bars is cropping up nationwide to create social spaces without the hangovers, DUIs and alcoholism culture. It鈥檚 part of a new push for sober options.
Lawmakers and patients want to eliminate 鈥渟urprise鈥 out-of-network medical bills. Hospitals, doctors and insurers say they want to eliminate them, too, but their opposition to one another鈥檚 proposals could complicate legislative efforts. Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about reproductive health and health care sharing ministries.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the Trump administration鈥檚 efforts to curtail federally funded research using fetal tissue, the backlash from former Vice President Joe Biden鈥檚 support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment and how health policy intersects with both trade and immigration policy.
For our 100th episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jen Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Sandhya Ramen of CQ Roll Call join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to take a deep dive into the abortion debate, discussing everything from the latest news to the history of the Supreme Court鈥檚 jurisprudence as well as how states are trying to further expand or restrict abortion rights and access. Also, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Lauren Weber about the latest 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 installment.
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