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Hospitals Have a Little-Known Tool To Prevent Medical Debt. Here’s How It Works.
Getting financial assistance from hospitals often involves filling out cumbersome forms. Some states now require hospitals to identify and automatically enroll patients eligible for charity care.
Why the Future of Bladder Cancer Diagnosis Isn’t One Test Replacing Another
Cancer testing is shifting in a quiet but meaningful way. New urine-based tests are showing that a simple sample no procedure, no camera, no discomfort can give doctors useful information…
FDA Clears DreaMed MODI: First CGM-Driven Insulin Dose Optimization App for Type 2 Injection Therapy
What You Should Know The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to MODI, a prescription software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) application developed by DreaMed Diabetes Ltd. that calculates and…
How Virtual Care and AI Unlock Outcomes-Based Autism Therapy
For years, autism therapy has forced healthcare purchasers into a false choice: expand access or control costs. But as diagnoses in the U.S. have climbed to one in every 31…
Rural MAHA Followers Say Trump Health Policies Haven’t Reached Their Communities
President Donald Trump has championed sprawling health policy changes under the Make America Healthy Again movement, but a KFF-Associated Press survey of rural voters found people aren’t seeing the initiatives…
Drugs Are Widely Used To Sedate Dementia Patients. Her Sons Wanted To Keep Her Off Them.
Potent sedating medications are often used on agitated people with dementia in long-term care facilities despite federal efforts to discourage their use. A clash over whether to drug a Michigan…
These 100 Nursing Homes Face Perilous Flood Risk. Minnesota Shows What Can Happen.
Staff raced against rising floodwater to evacuate 36 residents from a nursing home in New Richland, Minnesota. It’s one of 100 facilities KFF Health News identified as facing some of…
US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect Oct.…
EliseAI Secures $350M to Scale Agentic Workflows Across Healthcare Operations
What You Should Know Workflow automation company EliseAI announced that it has raised $350M in new financing at a $4B valuation to deepen its operational automation platform across the housing…