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Lifestyle & Health

Oz Says California’s Not Fighting Health Care Fraud, but Data Shows It’s Part of a Larger Battle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For weeks, Mehmet Oz has been waging a public feud with California leaders over health care fraud, accusing the blue state of fai...

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Watch: Affordability Plagues Health Care in Its Shift From Nonprofit to Profit Machine

On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Drew Altman, preside...

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In Switching to Original Medicare, Beware of Medigap Plan Refusals

It’s open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage, when people currently enrolled in private managed-care plans can either sign up for a new one or s...

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‘Dark Money’ Group Angles for Higher Medicare Advantage Payments

If you judged by the more than 16,400 comments posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demandin...

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Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: RFK Jr.’s Very Bad Week

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social...

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: 40 Years of Health Policy

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social...

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Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us

Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” s...

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‘Kind of Morbid’: Health Premiums Threaten Their Nest Egg. A Terminal Diagnosis May Spare It.

COLUSA, Calif. — Early on, Jean Franklin got some career advice she followed religiously: “Pay yourself first.” So she did, socking away hundreds of t...

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When It Comes to Health Insurance, Federal Dollars Support More Than ACA Plans

Subsidies. Love ’em or hate them, they dominated the news during the Affordable Care Act’s sign-up season, and their reduction is now hitting many enr...

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Trump Required Hospitals To Post Their Prices for Patients. Mostly It’s the Industry Using the Data.

Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long pushed to give patients money and let consumers do the...

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New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard

Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work. The 59-year-old, who lives in Harrisburg, North Carolina...