Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The reliance on ...

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The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson prompted both grief and public outrage about the ways insurers deny ...

A purge of FDA staff spared some people tasked with responding to a judge’s orders to disclose government records on covid ...

Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination clinics across the country, including ...

Consumers who were enrolled fraudulently in Affordable Care Act coverage could receive unexpected tax bills — the first and ...

The GOP-controlled Congress is weighing cuts to Medicaid, the government health program that covers millions of Americans — ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is ...

Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a ...