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President Donald Trump signed legislation that requires many Medicaid recipients to prove they鈥檙e working to qualify for health care coverage, allocating $200 million for states that expanded Medicaid to prepare systems to verify people鈥檚 eligibility. Georgia鈥檚 program, which has been expensive and difficult to administer, has had limited enrollment.
This installment of InvestigateTV and 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 鈥淐ostly Care鈥 series explores how the type of medical facility where a patient seeks care can affect the cost of that care 鈥 particularly when that facility is a hospital.
Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead. For doctors, these denials are frustrating and time-consuming. For patients, they can be devastating.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 C茅line Gounder joined CBS Evening News to discuss the unprecedented move by the Health and Human Services secretary.
Chief rural health correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble explains how millions of rural Americans live in counties with doctor shortages and where high-speed internet connections aren鈥檛 adequate to access advanced telehealth services.
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
Fresh studies expose a gap in the FDA鈥檚 assessments of foods: Widely used additives could damage the mix of bacteria in your gut, causing health problems.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner, Stephanie Armour, and Darius Tahir and KFF鈥檚 Jennifer Kates break down the biggest takeaways from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 first hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as HHS secretary 鈥 and answer your questions.
Taxpayers 鈥 through federal infrastructure programs 鈥 have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth.
To a great extent, the FDA leaves it to food companies to determine whether their ingredients and additives are safe. Some chemicals and additives are tied to health risks while others are absent from product labels. Watch this video explainer to learn more.
Although knee replacements are usually covered by health insurance, amputees face roadblocks to coverage and often must prove their prosthetics are medically necessary.
Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on outdated technology and piecemeal systems challenge staffs and erode patient care.
The Senate Finance Committee questioned Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump鈥檚 nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News reporters discussed the biggest takeaways from the hearing.
Last year, the government stopped cutting off people鈥檚 monthly Social Security benefits to claw back overpayments. Last week, under President Donald Trump, it reversed that change.
Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst and poor internet connections mean little or no access to telehealth services.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid's history and role in the U.S. health system.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News reporters break down the biggest takeaways from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 confirmation hearings for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Judith Graham, 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News' "Navigating Aging" columnist, talks with older adults who live alone by choice or circumstance. They share what it means to thrive in later years.
With his term soon to expire, Social Security chief Martin O鈥橫alley鈥檚 efforts to address the agency鈥檚 overpayments to beneficiaries remain incomplete.
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