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Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service and a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan healthcare policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

By Kaiser Health News | 09:40 am | February 13, 2017
A six-month Kaiser Health News investigation found that the orphan drug program intended to help desperate patients is being manipulated by drugmakers.
By Kaiser Health News | 12:51 pm | February 09, 2017
Rules strengthen patients' rights considerably and call for caregivers to be informed and engaged in plans for patients' care.
By Kaiser Health News | 12:41 pm | February 09, 2017
House and Senate committees have already missed a deadline of Jan. 27 to write and pass their proposed repeal and replace provisions.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:27 am | February 08, 2017
Price made dozens of health industry stock trades during a three-year investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission that focused on the Ways and Means Committee, according to financial disclosure records.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:05 am | February 08, 2017
Studies show that when consumers must spend a big chunk of their own money on their care, they can cut back by as much as 15 percent.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:57 am | February 06, 2017
Agency will clear up misconception that beneficiaries are eligible for coverage for physical and occupational therapy and other skilled care only if their health is improving.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:33 am | February 03, 2017
Any new health law needs revenue to replace Cadillac tax, ACA taxes on insurers, medical devices, high-income households that paid for expansion.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:18 am | February 03, 2017
Expanding the use of such accounts is part of almost every GOP replacement plan under consideration on Capitol Hill.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:36 am | February 02, 2017
Healthy Indiana Plan that Pence established in 2015 as the state's governor has brought Medicaid coverage to more than 350,000 people.
By Kaiser Health News | 12:35 pm | February 01, 2017
Fewer patients would be able to pay their hospital bills, sticking the facilities with bad debt as they were before Obamacare.