The leading nurses union says the study highlights the need for a Medicare for All system to limit high markups By IGOR DERYSH, NOVEMBER 22, 2020, For Salon. Hospitals in the United States charge patients as much… Read More
Congress was close to a solution before getting hit with millions of dollars of ads from private-equity firms. Then the pandemic struck. By Sarah Kliff, Oct. 13, 2020, The New York Times. An intubated coronavirus… Read More
By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, Jun 16, 2020. In a one-story brick building in suburban Dallas, between a dentist office and a family medicine clinic, is a medical laboratory that has run some… Read More
By Diane Bartz & Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, Jun 10, 2020. Twenty-six drug manufacturers were sued on Wednesday by the attorneys general of most U.S. states and several territories, which accused them of conspiring to reduce… Read More
By Ana B. Ibarra, KHN, Nov 14, 2019. Russell Desmond received a letter a few weeks ago from the American Kidney Fund that he said felt like “a smack on the face.” The organization informed… Read More
By Kelly Gooch, Beckers Hospital Report. The cost of hospital inpatient services for privately insured individuals is on the rise, according to a new data brief by UnitedHealth Group. An analysis conducted in 2019 of… Read More
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times. The question might seem indelicate. But transplant centers find it is necessary these days to know the answer even before they place a patient on the list for… Read More
By Michelle Andrews, KHN News. Three years ago, Corey Walsh, who was in a relationship with a man who was HIV-positive, got a prescription for Truvada, a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration… Read More
By Lisa Rapaport, Reuters Health. Many patients with neurologic disorders like multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease have seen steep increases in their out-of-pocket costs for drugs in recent years, a U.S. study suggests…. Read More
By CARMEN HEREDIA RODRIGUEZ, KAISER HEALTH NEWS. It was dusk as Oakley Yoder and the other summer camp kids hiked back to their tents at Illinois’ Jackson Falls last July. As the group approached a mound… Read More