Paying Hospitals To Keep People Out Of Hospitals? It Works In Maryland.
The state鈥檚 ambitious payment overhaul has begun to demonstrate savings and a change in culture, say new reports.
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Bill Of The Month: For Toenail Fungus, A $1,500 Prescription
How a prescription wiped out one woman鈥檚 health reimbursement account, raising questions about prescription drug price tags and about how health care professionals deal (or don鈥檛) with medical costs.
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The Other Opioid Crisis: Hospital Shortages Lead To Patient Pain, Medical Errors
A nationwide shortage of injectable opioid painkillers has left hospitals scrambling to find alternatives 鈥 in some cases leading to dosage mistakes that may harm patients.
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For Aspiring Doctors With Disabilities, Many Medical Schools Come Up Short
A national survey finds that medical schools should do more to help doctors with disabilities thrive. Although some schools do make needed accommodations, others need to take basic steps to help.
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Opioid Maker Funds Efforts To Fight Addiction: Is It 鈥楤lood Money鈥 Or Charity?
Purdue Pharma, whose signature product helped fuel the opioid epidemic, now wants to help treat it 鈥 or at least salvage its own reputation.
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Patients Overpay For Prescriptions 23% Of The Time, Analysis Shows
Researchers at the University of Southern California analyzed millions of prescriptions and concluded that close to a quarter paid copays that exceeded the cost of the drugs.
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Rising Health Costs, Soaring Drug Prices, Confusing Bills! What鈥檚 A Consumer To Do?
KHN correspondent Shefali Luthra answered a wide variety of questions about health care in a Reddit 鈥淎sk Me Anything鈥 chat.
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Of 鈥楳iracles鈥 And Money: Why Hemophilia Drugs Are So Expensive
The market is flooded with 28 different medications for just 20,000 patients with the hereditary bleeding disorder. Yet intense competition hasn鈥檛 worked to bring costs down. Sales amount to $4.6 billion annually in the U.S.
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From The ER To Inpatient Care 鈥 At Home
Some health systems are encouraging selected ill emergency department patients who are stable and don鈥檛 need intensive, round-the-clock care to opt for hospital-level care at home.
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At New Health Office, 鈥楥ivil Rights鈥 Means Doctors鈥 Right To Say No To Patients
The HHS civil rights division refocuses on the rights of health care providers who have moral objections to treatments such as abortion or sterilization, alarming critics.
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User-Friendly Or Error-Ridden? Debate Swirls Around Website Comparing Nursing Homes
State says its new site is easier to navigate, though it remains a work in progress. Advocates for nursing home patients call it 鈥渁 huge step in the wrong direction鈥 that could endanger people鈥檚 lives.
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Simple surgeries. Tragic results.
As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives
An investigation by Kaiser Health News and the USA TODAY Network discovers that more than 260 patients have died since 2013 after in-and-out procedures at surgery centers across the country. More than a dozen 鈥 some as young as 2 鈥 have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.
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Never Too Late To Operate? Surgery Near End Of Life Is Common, Costly
Nearly 1 in 3 Medicare patients undergo an operation in their final year of life.
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At Some California Hospitals, Fewer Than Half Of Workers Get The Flu Shot
Vaccinations rates have climbed significantly among hospital workers in recent years, to 83 percent. But that rate masks wide variation among facilities and types of workers. Nationally, the rules are far from uniform or ironclad.
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Couple Makes Millions Off Medicaid Managed Care As Oversight Lags
How a California health plan鈥檚 CEO and her husband, an executive consultant, got rich off the taxpayer-funded program for the poor. Critics see a conflict of interest, the plan doesn鈥檛, and the state has no rules either way.
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Bad Bedside Manna: Bank Loans Signed In The Hospital Leave Patients Vulnerable
Hospitals increasingly team up with lending institutions to offer low- or no-interest loans to patients to make sure their bills get paid. But critics say the complexity of hospital pricing means consumers should be cautious.
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Listen: Got A Sky-High Bill? Don’t Write The Check.
Have you gotten a medical bill that sounds way too expensive or is just downright confusing? Send it to us. KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal talks with NPR Morning Edition Host Steve Inskeep about the launch of 鈥淏ill Of The Month,鈥 KHN and NPR's new crowdsourced investigation.
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Bill Of The Month: A College Student’s $17,850 Drug Test
Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with NPR, kicks off a series that will examine and decode your perplexing medical bills.
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Pain Hits After Surgery When A Doctor’s Daughter Is Stunned By $17,850 Urine Test
Elizabeth Moreno got hit with a $17,850 bill from a Texas lab after leaving a urine sample at her doctor鈥檚 office.
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FDA Head Vows To Tackle High Drug Prices And Drugmakers 鈥楪aming The System鈥
In an exclusive interview, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb describes what he鈥檚 doing to spur competition and bring down drug prices.
By Sarah Jane Tribble and Liz Szabo