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

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

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

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration ...

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

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

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

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

As the fires burned in Los Angeles, scientists and local air regulators deployed monitors to measure the levels of heavy ...

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

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