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In recent decades, the Justice Department has sued several states for unnecessarily confining people with disabilities in places such as st...

The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccin...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Jerry Qualls had a heart attack in 2022 and was rushed by ambulance to Holston Valley Medical Center, where he was hospi...

In 2017, the Republicans who controlled Congress tried mightily to slash federal spending on Medicaid, the government-funded health program...

ATLANTA — Deegant Adhvaryu completed his parents’ applications for Medicaid and food benefits in June. Then the waiting and frustration beg...

With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid e...

It seems no one is taking covid-19 seriously anymore, said Mollee Loveland, a nursing home aide who lives outside Pittsburgh....

California’s new initiative to compel treatment for some of the state’s most severely mentally ill residents — many of whom are living on t...

Worried that President-elect Donald Trump will curtail federal efforts to take on the nation’s medical debt problem, patient and consumer a...

After losing and regaining the same 20-plus pounds more times than she could count, Anita Blanchard concluded that diets don’t work....

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern....

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed a proposed weight loss drug rule by the Centers for Medicare & Me...

When Hurricane Helene struck in late September, it flooded the largest IV fluid factory in the United States. The Baxter International faci...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump tried mightily to reassure abortion rights supporters, vowing he would not sign into law a nationwide a...

Ryan Wettstein Nauman was inconsolable one evening last December. After being put down for bed, the 3-year-old from Peoria, Illinois, just...

The current Affordable Care Act open enrollment season is the first big test of new federal guardrails against fraud.The rule...

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strik...

Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, health care entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice....

Los cambios no autorizados en los planes médicos de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) parecen haberse reducido en las últimas...

Unauthorized switching of Affordable Care Act plans appears to have tapered off in recent weeks based on an almost one-third drop in casewo...

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will nominate...

Medicare officials are pushing back against a federal watchdog’s call to crack down on home visits by Medicare Advantage health p...

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ATLANTA — Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a m...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care A...