As States Apply, Vendors Form Coalition Around Rural Transformation Program
Collaborative for Healthy Rural America includes Lumeris, Teladoc Health, Nuna, Deloitte, and Unite Us
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HHS’s Independence: If Not Now, When?
By DAVID INTROCASO After having worked in DC for sixteen years, in 2013 I created The Healthcare Policy Podcast. The title was in part intended to be sarcastic because healthcare policymaking in DC is very narrowly drawn. Consequently, healthcare delivery is excessively commodified, reductionistic and financialized or in sum anachronistic and ironically lacking purchase. If the…
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to…
Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population
By TAMARA MANNS I walked into the emergency department already knowing the outcome. In these same rooms I had told women having the same symptoms as me, “I am so sorry, there is nothing we can do for a miscarriage”. I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into,…
How Might Federal Medicaid Cuts in the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill Affect Rural Areas?
Under the Senate-passed reconciliation bill, federal Medicaid spending in rural areas is estimated to decline by $155 billion, more than in the House-passed bill, and far more than the $50 billion appropriated for the rural health fund.
Why Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System
By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, saddens, and depletes patients and physicians alike. No one designed it this way. It evolved through a series of choices and contingencies that perhaps made sense at the time but now seem to have…
Digital Biomarkers in Agitation Detection: Enhancing Care for Communication-Impaired Neurological Disorders
Wearable technology seems to offer great potential for early detection and management of agitation experienced by people with communication-impaired neurological disorders, allowing caregivers to provide personalized interventions that could significantly improve patients’ lives. The post Digital Biomarkers in Agitation Detection: Enhancing Care for Communication-Impaired Neurological Disorders appeared first on MedCity News.
What’s the Future of Value-Based Care for Rural Hospitals?
Janice Walters, executive director of the Rural Health Care Redesign Center, recently discussed working with rural hospitals under a global budget in Pennsylvania
An Examination of Medicaid Renewal Outcomes and Enrollment Changes at the End of the Unwinding
Using data from the KFF Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker, this analysis reports data on unwinding renewal outcomes through June 2024 and examines Medicaid enrollment changes from February 2020 through May 2024, the most recent federal enrollment data available, nationally and across states.
Media Availability: What the Budget Reconciliation Law Could Mean for Health Coverage, Affordability, and the States
DATE: July 9, 2025 Now that President Trump has signed the megabill, KFF will hosted a virtual media availability for journalists on Wednesday, July 9 to answer questions about health care provisions in the law and their implications for health coverage, affordability, and state budgets, as well as potential political considerations for future elections. KFF’s…More