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Deny and Delay? California Seeks Penalties for Insurers That Repeatedly Get It Wrong

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18 February 2025
A state lawmaker wants health insurers to disclose denial rates and explain those denials as anger grows over rising costs and uncovered medical care. If the bill is signed into law, health experts say, it could be one of the boldest attempts in the nation to rein in denials.

Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities

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18 February 2025
States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are particularly aggressive in their pursuit.

Pain Clinics Made Millions From ‘Unnecessary’ Injections Into ‘Human Pin Cushions’

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18 February 2025
Pain MD, which once ran as many as 20 clinics across three states, gave chronic-pain patients about 700,000 total injections near their spines, according to court documents. Last year, federal prosecutors proved at trial that the shots were medically unnecessary and part of an extensive fraud scheme.

Journalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates

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15 February 2025
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

Sights, Sounds Trigger Trauma for Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivors

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14 February 2025
Survivors and witnesses of gun violence often freeze emotionally at first, as a coping mechanism. As the one-year mark since the parade shooting nears, the last installment in our series “The Injured” looks at how some survivors talk about resilience, while others are desperately trying to hang on.

Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate

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14 February 2025
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two With Experience Scale Back

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14 February 2025
As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such programs — want to scale back the key parts supporters have argued encourage employment and personal responsibility.

A Dose of Love: The Winning Health Policy Valentines

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14 February 2025
KFF Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon.

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  1. As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two Scale Theirs Back
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  3. Montana Looks To Regulate Prior Authorization as Patients, Providers Decry Obstacles to Care
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