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Hospitals were not paid a fixed sum for each COVID‑19 death; public analyses find , though enhanced Medicare and other reimbursements created complex incentives that critics say could influence coding...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta publicly denied that he endorsed Neurocept and warned that scammers are using his likeness in AI deepfake product ads; CNN reported Gupta “speaks out” about such fake videos on July 3...
As of 2025, ten states have not adopted the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, leaving roughly 1.4–1.6 million people in the “coverage gap” who are ineligible for both Medicaid and marketplace ...
The available literature does not provide a single, authoritative figure for the average cost of emergency care for undocumented immigrants in U.S. hospitals; recent studies and reports instead emphas...
Audits and large federal/state surveys show a pattern: emergency shelter usage in some high‑arrival communities has risen sharply and is often directly linked to new arrivals, school health and behavi...
Allegations that hospitals inflated COVID-19 deaths to chase federal money drew rapid scrutiny from journalists, health groups and fact‑checkers, and the record shows investigative reporting and syste...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking output and related agency materials indicate the agency proposed to reserve the higher “professional” loan limits principally for traditionally high...
High-dose or veterinary ivermectin exposures in humans produce a consistent pattern of acute effects dominated by neurologic symptoms (confusion, decreased consciousness, seizures, coma) and gastroint...
If you (or a tax family member) are eligible for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, TRICARE or an “affordable” employer plan that provides minimum value, you generally cannot get the Premium Tax Credit (PTC) f...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) does not, in the reporting available here, explicitly say it authorizes private-market “medical underwriting” or broad conditional coverage exclusions; instead i...
Profit-driven incentives shape rural and low-income health care by directing private capital and insurer attention toward more profitable markets while leaving many rural hospitals dependent on public...
Hospitals and healthcare providers responded to the proposed Medicare and Medicaid cuts with an aggressive, multi-pronged campaign of warnings, lobbying, advertising and targeted messaging aimed at la...
Per‑capita caps or block grants to Medicaid are projected to reduce federal Medicaid spending substantially over the next decade, but the magnitude and downstream effects vary across analyses and depe...
Senate Democratic FY2025 budget activity centers on three recurring priorities: , , and . Reporting across the available documents shows Democrats used amendments and procedural votes to protect healt...