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After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that re...

Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on Covered California, the state’s Af...

The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal officials said are...

If your neighbor is a backyard chicken hobbyist, should you be worried about bird flu? KFF Health News national public health correspondent...

BOLIGEE, Ala. — Green lights flickered on the wireless router in Barbara Williams’ kitchen. Just one bar lit up — a weak signal connecting h...

The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And so state and local public...

In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground.Many Republican lawmaker...

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A dozen people seated around folding tables clap heartily for a beaming woman: She’s donated two 13-gallon garbage bags full of clothes, inc...

More than three years ago, health insurance giant Centene Corp. settled allegations that it overcharged Medicaid programs in Ohio and Missis...

The Justice Department’s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage ove...

As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This m...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressuring Oakland to expand its police department’s ability to chase suspects, referen...

Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time.In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer. He was fatigued, is...

KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed a mysterious illness in Congo that has claimed dozens of lives on...

It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who w...

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Los Angeles County homelessness leaders last year reported nearly 30,000 permanent housing placements — an annual high for the sprawling reg...

On a bright October day, high schoolers from Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus piled into a boat on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C...

El vestíbulo de la clínica comunitaria St. John’s Community Health en el sur de Los Ángeles está repleto de pacientes, pero a la trabajadora...

ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to an unoccupied building about 30 mi...

At a recent Nevada legislative committee hearing, lawmakers faced off with members of the governor’s administration over how to fill gaping...

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s pr...

KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the possibility of a bird flu pandemic on WAMU’s “1A” on Feb. 20....

Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda. Republ...