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Groupons for Medical Treatment? Welcome to Today's US Health Care By offering an upfront cost on a coupon site like Groupon, argues one healthcare administrator, medical companies are helping to drive prices down while at the same marketing their medical businesses.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Firing Doctor, Hospital Sets Off National Challenge to Aid-in-Dying Laws Centura Health, a Colorado-based health system jointly run by Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches, fired a longtime doctor over her efforts to help a patient with terminal cancer end his life.
Kaiser Health News, September 2019
Mysterious Vaping Lung Injuries May Have Flown Under Regulatory Radar Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn't know where to report such cases.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Pharma Cash Rolls Into Congress to Defend an Embattled Industry Lobbying heats up well ahead of the 2020 elections, led by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Lowering drug prices is one cause that unites Republicans and Democrats.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Multiple Hospitals Close in Wake of Fraud Allegations Jorge A. Perez and his management company, EmpowerHMS, helped run an empire of rural hospitals. Now, 12 of them have entered bankruptcy and eight have closed their doors. So, what happened?
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
What the Trump Home Dialysis Plan Would Really Look Like It takes more than an executive order to shift kidney disease patients from dialysis centers to home care. These patients show it takes discipline, skill, will and support.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
DIY Tech Gives People More Freedom in Managing Diabetes People with diabetes say they've been waiting for better technology to manage their condition. Some tech-savvy, do-it-yourselfers are constructing their own devices using open-source programming instructions.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Stem Cell Agency to Ask for New Funds Despite Failed Promises California's stem cell agency is almost out of money. Its supporters plan to ask voters for more funding next year, even though no agency-funded treatments have been approved for widespread use.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Trump Administration Hits Brakes on Law to Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs Critics worry the delays come at a steep cost: Medicare paying for millions of unnecessary exams and patients subject to radiation for no medical benefit.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Hepatitis A Races Across the Country The virus continues its march across the nation, with Florida and Philadelphia the latest areas to declare public health emergencies.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Dealing With the Lingering Effects of a Mass Shooting The director of the San Bernardino (Calif.) County Department of Behavioral Health has broadened the agency's focus to caring for people struggling with psychological trauma from mass shootings.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Federal Experts' Advice on HPV Vaccine Could Add Confusion A federal advisory panel says people aged 27 to 45 may benefit from the human papillomavirus vaccine, but some worry that the advice doesn't provide clear guidance about who are candidates for the vaccine.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Drugmakers Master Rolling Out Their Own Generics to Stifle Competition Known as 'authorized generics,' in-house spinoffs of brand-name drugs quietly undermine the competition.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
Federal Suit Alleges 'Staggering' Urine Drug Testing Fraud Prosecutors say Comprehensive Pain Specialists saw urine tests as 'liquid gold,' and cheated Medicare and other taxpayer-funded health insurers by conducting needless urine drug tests.
Kaiser Health News, August 2019
They May Owe Nothing: $500K Dialysis Bill Canceled After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive a Montana man's huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
First Kidney Failure, Then a $540,842 Bill for Dialysis He needed the lifesaving treatment -- he never expected a half-million-dollar bill for 14 weeks of care.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
Juul Taps Addiction Expert as Medical Director Dr Mark Rubinstein, known for researching youth vaping, is now executive medical officer at e-cigarettes producer Juul Labs. Juul says the hire will help reduce teen vaping. Critics see Big Tobacco tactics.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
US Medical Students Less Likely to Choose to Become Primary Care Doctors The percentage of primary care positions filled by fourth-year medical students in 2019 was the lowest on record.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
Medicare Going in 'Right Direction' on Opioid Epidemic A new report by the inspector general for HHS shows prescriptions to treat opioid addiction are way up in recent years, while prescriptions for the painkillers have fallen.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019
More Americans Seek Alcohol-Free Social Spaces A national trend of boozeless bars is cropping up nationwide to create social spaces without the hangovers, DUIs, and alcoholism culture. It's part of a new push for sober options.
Kaiser Health News, July 2019

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