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Hospitals have depended on travel nurses to fill shifts, especially during covid surges. Now some larger systems, reeling from high contract labor costs, have created staffing units, aiming to lure nurses who want more work flexibility and better pay than staff RNs get.
Coal mining ended in Germany鈥檚 Saarland a decade ago, but the transition away from coal has been smoother than in West Virginia, which has more medical debt than any state in America.
A months-long KHN examination of the system meant to bar fraudsters from Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal health programs found gaping holes and expansive gray areas through which banned individuals slip to repeatedly bilk taxpayer-funded programs.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
Yes, the U.S. is experiencing an unusual spate of childhood RSV infections. But the critical shortage of hospital beds to treat ailing children stems from structural problems in pediatric care that have been brewing for years.
The death of a sharp but frail patriarch just days before Thanksgiving casts a shadow on a family鈥檚 holiday season.
KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses how California鈥檚 big Medicaid experiment to bring social services to the sickest and costliest patients doesn鈥檛 help most patients.
An important new study offers much-needed data to inform older Americans of the risks and benefits they must weigh when facing major surgery.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Attorney General Rob Bonta handily won election on a progressive, social justice platform. He鈥檚 already begun with an inquiry into hospital software programs that might bake in racial discrimination.
Hospitals strike deals with financing companies, generating profits for lenders, and more debt for patients.
Voters in Inglewood were poised to approve a union-backed $25 minimum wage for workers at private hospitals and facilities, while Duarte voters rejected it.
A new documentary, 鈥淚nHospitable,鈥 explores how disputes between big hospitals can leave patients with few options for care and imperil their health.
The nation鈥檚 largest private health system, HCA Healthcare, has faced years of scrutiny over its share of emergency room patients who are admitted to the hospital. And now U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, is calling for a federal investigation, prompting an escalating defense by the hospital system, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Some primary care physicians will drop seldom-seen patients. That鈥檚 a particular problem for those who postponed doctor visits during the pandemic.
State employees could receive checks ranging from $50 to thousands of dollars if they choose the right provider.
Federal officials have ordered the probe after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get medical care recommended by her doctors to end the pregnancy because hospital officials were concerned about Missouri鈥檚 strict abortion law.
Federal officials said they are penalizing 2,273 hospitals, the fewest since the fiscal year that ended in September 2014. Driving the decline was a change in the formula to compensate for the chaos caused by the covid-19 pandemic.
Public health investigators found that 53% of maternal deaths happened well after a mother left the hospital 鈥 from seven days to a year after the birth.
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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