Page Updated: Sunday, December 28, 2025 4:24 PM ET

Kaiser Health News - Health

Bill Of The Month

1 day ago

Payback: Tracking Opioid Cash

1 year ago

The Body Shops

3 months ago

The Only Hospital in Town

1 year ago

After Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery, They Wound Up in the Hospital or Alone at a Recovery House

5 days ago

It's the 'Gold Standard' in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?

5 days ago

Medical Bills Can Be Vexing and Perplexing. Here's This Year's Best Advice for Patients.

5 days ago

Listen to the Latest 'KFF Health News Minute'

3 months ago

An Arm and a Leg

5 days ago

An Arm and a Leg: A Few More Good Things From 2025

5 days ago

Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

6 days ago

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.

6 days ago

Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes

6 days ago

Inside the FDA's Vaccine Uproar

9 days ago

Journalists Zero In on 'Certificate of Need' Laws and Turbulent Obamacare Enrollment Season

8 days ago

Judge in Nursing Home Bankruptcy Case Gives Families Fresh Hope of Compensation for Injuries, Deaths

9 days ago

Scorpion Peppers Caused Him 'Crippling' Pain. Two Years Later, the ER Bill Stung Him Again.

9 days ago

Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities

9 days ago

States Advance Medical Debt Protections as Federal Support Turns to Opposition

9 days ago

View All Top Stories

6 years ago

After Series of Denials, His Insurer Approved Doctor-Recommended Cancer Care. It Was Too Late.

1 month ago

Fighting a Health Insurance Denial? Here Are 7 Tips To Help

27 days ago

Ticked Off Over Preauthorization: Walk-In Patient Avoided Lyme Disease but Not a Surprise Bill

1 month ago

We'll Be Back Soon

1 day ago

Morning Briefing: Today's News Summaries

5 days ago

Novo Nordisk's Wegovy Becomes First GLP-1 Oral Pill After FDA Approval

5 days ago

CMS Generates 400 Medicare-Funded Residency Slots

5 days ago

Aetna Adds IVF Coverage For Same-Sex Couples After Settlement

5 days ago

New ALS Drug Targets Cell Mutation, May Slow Progression: Study

5 days ago

Nurses At 12 NYC Hospitals Prepared To Strike In New Year

5 days ago

ByHeart Formula Botulism Lawsuit Adds Target, Walmart, Whole Foods

5 days ago

Use Our Stories For Free

6 years ago

We want to hear from you!

9 months ago

Broken Rehab -- How delays and bankruptcy let a nursing home chain avoid paying settlements for injuries and deaths.

9 days ago

Nutrition -- Even as SNAP resumes, new work rules threaten access for years to come.

12 days ago

LGBTQ+ Health -- An HIV expert refused to censor data, then quit the CDC.

11 days ago

Sticker Shock -- Obamacare customers confront premium spikes as Congress dithers.

6 days ago

Bill of the Month -- A toddler's ambulance ride cost over $9,000.

25 days ago

Republicans Left Tribes Out of Their $50B Rural Fund. -- Now it's up to states to share.

17 days ago

Public Health -- While scientists race to study spread of measles in the U.S., Kennedy unravels hard-won gains.

11 days ago

BROKEN REHAB -- Broken Rehab -- They need a ventilator to stay alive. Getting one can be a nightmare.

19 days ago

What the Health? From KFF Health News: Time's Up for Expanded ACA Tax Credits

9 days ago

More From The Midwest Bureau

4 years ago

Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments

12 days ago

More from the California Bureau

2 months ago

Readers Make Their Wish Lists, Checking Up on Health Care

12 days ago

One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts

12 days ago

More From The Mountain States

4 years ago

More From The Southern Bureau

4 years ago

Lawfully Present Immigrants Help Stabilize ACA Plans. Why Does the GOP Want Them Out?

4 months ago

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP's Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

5 months ago

Wheelchair? Hearing Aids? Yes. 'Disabled'? No Way.

17 days ago

Noticias en Español

4 years ago

Las armas promovidas para la seguridad personal provocan una crisis de salud pública en comunidades negras

9 days ago

Las personas sin hogar de DC se esconden a la intemperie, se enferman más y le cuestan más al sistema

10 days ago

¿Llamar al 911 o arriesgarse a perder al bebé? Redadas obligan a algunos inmigrantes a evitar la atención médica

10 days ago

FDA cuestiona uso de antidepresivos en el embarazo, pero médicos dicen que son esenciales

13 days ago

Send Us Your Haiku

6 years ago