Para quienes tienen en su agenda de otoño vacunarse contra enfermedades respiratorias —covid, gripe y, para algunas personas, virus respiratorio sincitial (VRS) — este año puede resultar sorprendentemente normal. Después de un verano confuso, cuando las autoridades federales anunciaron cambios en las recomendaciones sobre la vacuna contra covid, que luego anularon, los Centros para el…
About one in eight adults (12%) say that they are currently taking a GLP-1 drug such as Ozempic or Wegovy either to lose weight or treat a chronic condition, an increase from 18 months ago, though the high costs of the medications remain a concern, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.
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Consumers can see their out-of-pocket costs skyrocket, both in premiums and in out-of-pocket costs, if Congress continues to do nothing, healthcare advocate says
KFF Health News and KCUR followed the stories of people injured during the Feb. 14, 2024, mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration. As the one-year mark since the parade shooting nears, the last installment in our series “The Injured” looks at how some survivors talk about resilience, while others are desperately…
Anmol Madan is CEO of RadiantGraph. He’s building an end to end solution that goes from data ingestion to applications to consumer connection via text/email and voice in order to let payers quickly roll out patient engagement plans. His idea is that plans/payers don’t need to fix their data, RadiantGraph’s AI can take the messy…
The answer is ‘yes’ according to a paper by Borrelli et al. (2025). The authors use annual Medicare Star Rating health plan performance for Medicare Advantage-Part D (MAPD) plans over the past decade (2015 to 2024). They find that: For plans achieving at least 4 stars on the medication adherence measures, 70%-74% of them also…
This updated fact sheet examines the U.S. role in the Global Fund, an independent, multilateral financing entity that raises significant new resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria in low- and middle- income countries.
El vestíbulo de la clínica comunitaria St. John’s Community Health en el sur de Los Ángeles está repleto de pacientes, pero a la trabajadora de salud comunitaria Ana Ruth Varela le preocupa que todo se vuelva mucho más tranquilo. Dijo que muchos pacientes tienen miedo de salir de sus casas. “El otro día hablé con…
Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies lower premium payments for ACA Marketplace coverage by boosting existing ACA subsidies and making some people newly eligible. Enrollees across incomes benefit from these subsidies. For example, low-income enrollees (making up to 150% of the poverty level) became eligible for free or nearly free coverage. Those earning over four…More