KFF Global Health Budget Summaries
These global health budget summaries highlight key information about global health funding levels throughout the federal budget and appropriations process.
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Congress passes Full-Year Continuing Resolution Bill, maintaining global health funding at prior year levels
On March 15, 2025, the President signed a full-year “continuing resolution” (CR) that continues funding the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year. It maintains U.S. global health funding at the prior year (FY 2024) level ($10.8 billion).[i] The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which was passed by the House on…More
Modernizing Fax Systems in Healthcare: A Reliable Foundation for Interoperability
The key to realizing the full potential of legacy systems in modern healthcare lies in overcoming interoperability challenges — ensuring seamless data exchange between various systems while preserving the trusted reliability and security healthcare providers depend on. The post Modernizing Fax Systems in Healthcare: A Reliable Foundation for Interoperability appeared first on MedCity News.
5 Key Facts about Medicaid Program Integrity – Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments
Program integrity efforts work to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, to increase program transparency and accountability, and to recover improperly used funds. This brief explains what is known about improper payments and fraud and abuse in Medicaid and describes ongoing state and federal actions to address program integrity.
Reimagining Mental Healthcare: We Need A New Road, Not A Bigger Truck
We need to embrace a more holistic, integrated approach to mental healthcare: one that combines the best of human expertise with rapid innovations of technology, all while being mindful of the real-world challenges faced by marginalized and underserved communities. The post Reimagining Mental Healthcare: We Need A New Road, Not A Bigger Truck appeared first…
Her Case Changed Trans Care in Prison. Now Trump Aims To Reverse Course.
In 2019, Cristina Iglesias filed a lawsuit that changed the course of treatment for herself and other transgender inmates in federal custody. Iglesias, a trans woman who had been incarcerated for more than 25 years, was transferred from a men’s prison to a women’s one in 2021. And in 2022, she reached a landmark settlement…
At Little-Known Health Agency, DOGE Ends Dream ‘To Make A Difference’
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Four days after emergency surgery and barely able to walk, Heather Sherman flew from Chicago to Washington for first-day-of-work onboarding at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fourteen months later, Sherman suddenly became one of the thousands of federal employees summarily dismissed by a weekend email telling them they were “not…
Number of US caregivers increases form 18 to 24 million
That is according to a paper by Wolff et al. (2025). They use 2011-2022 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) linked to data from the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC). Using these data, they find. …the numbers of family caregivers providing help to older adults increased by nearly six million between…
Immigrant Advocate: Revoking Dreamers’ Health Insurance Access Will Impact Providers and Patients
An estimated 750,000 to 2 million people would lose health insurance with proposed rule, with the potential to further burden EDs
Lantern Unveils Savings Methodology to Increase Transparency for Specialty Care Pricing
Lantern has publicly released its methodology for calculating surgical savings, and is inviting others to do the same. The post Lantern Unveils Savings Methodology to Increase Transparency for Specialty Care Pricing appeared first on MedCity News.