Kaiser Health News

The government soon will stop paying for the COVID drug that has proved to be the most effective at keeping patients alive and out of the hospital.

Some insurers and employers are tapping into assistance programs meant for individual patients. The concern: Some costly drugs could be harder for patients to access.

Health insurers and health care systems across the U.S. are breaking disability rights laws by sending inaccessible medical bills and notices, a KHN investigation found.

Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers. It grows quietly and is usually not detected until it has spread to other parts of the body.

An important new study offers much-needed data to inform older Americans of the risks and benefits they must weigh when facing major surgery.

Rob Bonta asked 30 hospital CEOs for a list of the commercial software programs their facilities use to support clinical decisions, schedule operating rooms, and guide billing practices.

The question of why California has granted hookah smokers an exception while banning menthol cigarettes, the choice of 85% of African American smokers, has sparked a debate about which tobacco products — if any — merit protection.

Californians are facing the third statewide dialysis initiative in five years. The dialysis industry is spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat Proposition 29 and is running ads saying the measure would force clinics to close — a message that appears to be resonating with patients.

In September, American Medical Response, the largest U.S. provider of ambulance services, announced it had “made the difficult decision” to end nonemergency transports in Los Angeles County. It blamed the state for low Medicaid reimbursement rates.

Viability has long been a controversial concept, plaguing ethicists on both sides of the abortion debate since it was embedded in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.