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The cheaper over-the-counter aids are for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss â a market of tens of millions of people, many of whom have until now been priced out because prescription devices can cost thousands of dollars.
The Biden administration has decided to try to fix the so-called âfamily glitchâ in the Affordable Care Act without an act of Congress. The provision has prevented workersâ families from getting subsidized coverage if an employer offer is unaffordable. Meanwhile, Medicareâs open enrollment period begins Oct. 15, and private Medicare Advantage plans are poised to cover more than half of Medicareâs 65 million enrollees. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read.
Medicare and Medicaid pay âlook-alikeâ health centers significantly more than hospitals for treating patients, and converting or creating clinics can help hospitals reduce their expenses.
Researchers say the billions in pandemic funding available for ventilation upgrades in U.S. schools provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to combat covid-19, as well as making air more breathable for students living with allergies, asthma, and chronic wildfire smoke.
Mourners are wrapping caskets in imagery, similar to the way companies wrap logos around cars, trucks, and buses. Across the country, casket-wrap companies create custom designs, too often for grieving parents who have lost their children to gun violence.
Jessica Altman took over in March as executive director of Californiaâs health insurance marketplace, which serves 1.8 million people. She warns that if Congress does not renew the tax credit enhancements that have made health plans more affordable, consumers will face significantly higher premiums, which could cause many to forgo coverage.
A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from covid. But a KHN review shows public health agencies across the country have been slow to spend it.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse many families up to $9,000 in funeral expenses for loved ones who died of covid-19. But fewer than half of eligible families have applied, while others have run into application problems.
Patients with symptoms that last three to 12 weeks after an acute covid infection should adopt a âwatchful waitingâ approach to recovery, an expert says. Keep in contact with a primary care doctor and take it easy.
President Joe Bidenâs Cabinet members are fanning out across the country to promote benefits coming to rural America from covid relief and infrastructure legislation.
The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid â an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvaniaâs Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.
At least 7 million immunocompromised people could benefit from the monoclonal antibody injections designed to prevent covid-19. The government says it has enough doses for a fraction of those in need â and it doesnât have the money to buy more.
Nicolas Montero is 16, and thatâs old enough to get a vaccine on his own in Philadelphia. Vaccine regulations vary around the country and, in more than a dozen states, teens can consent to their own medical care.
The omicron variant upended a system in which states shared rapid covid tests with those that needed them more. Cooperation has turned into competition as states run out of supplies, limit which organizations get them, or hold on to expired kits as a last resort.
In tough labor negotiations across the nation, here's what nurses donât want: âappreciation that is lip service,â âmarketing campaignsâ and âshiny new buildings.â And this year might well prove to be a turning point in efforts to organize health careâs essential workers.
Inside the Black Equity Coalitionâs novel effort to share community health intel and scrape government data to understand â and document â the life-threatening differences between white and Black Pittsburgh.
After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes covid-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."
Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.
College and grad students with chronic health conditions as common as asthma and diabetes may need to clear hurdles to make sure their health needs are covered by insurance if they go to school far from home.
Hesitancy about the vaccines among prison staffers has led to a striking disparity: Inmates are better protected than corrections officials.
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