Julie Rovner, the Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow, joined KHN after 16 years as health policy correspondent for NPR, where she helped lead the network’s coverage of the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. A noted expert on health policy issues, Rovner is the author of a critically-praised reference book Health Care Politics and Policy A-Z, now in its third edition.
Algorithms make it possible for companies to fix prices without explicitly coordinating with one another, posing a new test for regulators policing the market, said Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, during a media event hosted by KFF.
The first piece of financing to disappear happened before most of the law even took effect and more disappeared over time.
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.
Not everyone thinks that making medical school tuition-free for all students, including those who can afford it, is the best way to approach the complicated issue of student debt.
“The Supreme Court will ultimately decide if nearly 800,000 West Virginians with pre-existing conditions will lose their healthcare,” said U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
Gawande said the health system is moving “from individual delivery of stuff … to team delivery of outcomes. And that’s a radically different place.” He wants to help make that transition more effective.
The Trump administration is refusing to defend key parts of the Affordable Care Act, essentially arguing that federal courts should find the health law’s protection for people with pre-existing conditions unconstitutional.
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
The proposal would require facilities receiving federal family planning funds to be physically separate from those that perform abortion; would eliminate the requirement that women with unintended pregnancies be counseled on their full range of reproductive options; and would ban abortion referrals.
Here is a timeline of the most consequential events that have shaped the health law through the Trump Administration's and GOP's "repeal and replace" efforts in Congress.
Insurers have until summer to decide if they want to continue to sell policies in the ACA marketplaces, but many start making preliminary decisions as early as April.
A day after President Donald Trump said the Affordable Care Act “has been repealed,” officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
A big part of why people don’t like the health law is that they don’t understand what it does or how it works. Some of that is because healthcare is complicated.
It turns out the tax bills in the House and Senate also aim to reshape healthcare. Here are five ways these bills are trying to achieve that.
The medical deduction, originally created during the World War II era, is available only to taxpayers whose expenses are above 10 percent of their adjusted gross income.
On the opening day of open enrollment, here's how President Donald Trump and his administration have sought to deter enrollment on the insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act.
The exemption is for “non-religious organizations with sincerely held moral convictions inconsistent with providing coverage for some or all contraceptive services.”