Hospitals Battle For Control Over Fast-Growing Heart-Valve Procedure
Medicare limits payments for valve replacement via a catheter to hospitals with large numbers of heart procedures. But smaller facilities are crying foul.
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Purdue Pharma's Sales Pitch Downplayed Risks Of Opioid Addiction
Through a widely circulated brochure and a videotape of testimonials, the maker of OxyContin stressed patients’ right to opioid treatment for pain.
Energy-Hog Hospitals: When They Start Thinking Green, They See Green
Some hospitals have taken steps to be more energy-efficient. Though at times these changes barely represent rounding errors in their budgets, comprehensive efforts are beginning to make a difference.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ See You In Court!
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner talk about a spate of lawsuits involving the Affordable Care Act, as well as the latest in state and federal efforts regarding the Medicaid program for the poor.
States Leverage Federal Funds To Help Insurers Lower Premiums
Even as it chips away at Obamacare, the Trump administration is solidly behind state-based initiatives to cover high-cost patients, known as “reinsurance” programs. It approved two more last month.
Financial Ties That Bind: Studies Often Fall Short On Conflict-Of-Interest Disclosures
Listen: Why Young Doctors Appear To Be Embracing Single-Payer
‘No One Is Ever Really Ready': Aid-In-Dying Patient Chooses His Last Day
Feds Urge States To Encourage Cheaper Plans Off The Exchanges
Listen: The Latest On Workplace Wellness Programs
Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues
Advances In Treating Hep C Lead To New Option For Transplant Patients
Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark
As An Investor In Biotech Stock, Republican Chris Collins May Have Overshared
‘No One Is Ever Really Ready’
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Aid-In-Dying Patient Chooses His Last Day
With its expansion to Hawaii this year, medical aid-in-dying is now approved in eight U.S. jurisdictions. Even when legal, the controversial practice of choosing to die after a terminal diagnosis is difficult, said one Seattle man who shared his final deliberations.
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