Jenny Gold covers the healthcare industry, overhaul and disparities for radio and print. Her stories for KHN have aired on NPR and been printed in USA Today, the Washington Post, McClatchy and MSNBC.
A reporter's experience with Theranos serves as a reminder of the skepticism both journalists and healthcare consumers need to have in an age when public relations, marketing and advertising try to guide the story and our treatment.
Saint Anthony’s complaint appears to be the first time a hospital has sued a rating agency over a contested grade.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
As large hospital systems like Sutter Health, Stanford Medicine and UCSF Medical Center gobble up doctor practices, they gain market muscle that pushes costs upward. But how are those higher costs being distributed?
An interview with conservative health care expert Lanhee Chen, co-author of the influential American Enterprise Institute proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act.
They called it BERT, short for Bedside Entertainment Theater. It looks high-tech, but the whole thing costs about $900 to build. Lucile Packard now has 10 BERT units across the hospital. They’re using it in surgery, of course, but they’re also using it to calm kids getting radiation therapy and MRIs.
Some experts, however, say competition among hospitals can be a deterrent to data sharing. Whether a hospital is willing to share information with competitors depends on how it gets paid, said Dylan Roby, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Meiram Bendat, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who has filed several lawsuits against insurers alleging violations of the parity law, voiced skepticism about how effective a task force might be.
It closely parallels what’s going on in the U.S. healthcare system today.
The Academy suggests that doctors individualize counseling for parents based on the particular baby’s chances of survival and the family’s goals for their child.
According to a 2015 report, some Kaiser staffers told mental health patients that they were not entitled to long-term individual therapy ever.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Enforcement of the parity law was not assigned to any one agency. Instead, it fell to the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury, as well as state insurance commissioners.
It’s been more than 15 years since the Institute of Medicine released its seminal 1997 report detailing the suffering many Americans experience at the end of life and offering sweeping recommendations on how to improve care. So has dying in America gotten any less painful since then? Despite efforts to build hospice and palliative […]
Some of the states that were most successful in enrolling consumers on the exchanges embraced brokers. In California, 39 percent of people who signed up for a private exchange plan enrolled with a broker; in Kentucky the number reached 44 percent.
SAN ANTONIO — It’s almost 4 p.m., and Officers Ernest Stevens and Ned Bandoske have been driving around town in their black unmarked SUV since early this morning. The officers are part of San Antonio’s mental health squad – a six-person unit that answers the frequent emergency calls where mental illness may be an issue. […]
Recently, I moved across the country, from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. I drove the Southern route and decided to conduct an informal survey, asking folks I met along the way a question relevant to the health care reporting I’ve been doing for the past five years. The question: What bugs you most about your […]