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Collaborating with KFF Health News with focus on Medicaid, Medicare, Rural & Public Health
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As the Administration and States Push Health Data Sharing, Familiar Challenges Surface
Posted on September 23, 2025
The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically.
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Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages
Posted on September 22, 2025
CHICO, Calif. — Olivia Owlett chose to do her primary care residency in this Northern California college town largely because it faces many of the same health care challenges she grew up with.
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States Are Cutting Medicaid Provider Payments Long Before Trump Cuts Hit
Posted on September 22, 2025
Every day for nearly 18 years, Alessandra Fabrello has been a medical caregiver for her son, on top of being his mom.
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Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems
Posted on September 17, 2025
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — Jake Margo Jr. stood in the triage room at Starr County Memorial Hospital explaining why a person with persistent fever who could be treated with over-the-counter medication didn’t need to be admitted to the emergency room.
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Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?
Posted on September 15, 2025
For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous.
Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, California. A few years ago, though, he started to experience problems staying upright.
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Admin’s Medicaid Cuts Were Aimed at ‘Able-Bodied Adults.’ Hospitals Say Kids Will Be Hurt.
Posted on September 12, 2025
Republicans insist that President Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult beneficiaries into jobs. But the side effects may include less care for sick kids.
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Collaborative Networks Become Popular Lifeline for Rural Hospitals
Posted on September 12, 2025
BOWMAN, N.D. — Independent rural hospitals are increasingly forming collaborative groups to share resources and combine bargaining power with the goal of saving money and improving patient care.
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In the Fallout From Admin’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions
Posted on September 09, 2025
Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insurance, making the health fair a major source of free medical care in South Texas for more than 25 years.
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Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive
Posted on September 09, 2025
BOWMAN, N.D. — Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid into an MRI machine. Jacobi hoped the scan would help pinpoint the source of the pain in her shoulders.
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He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States.
Posted on September 05, 2025
It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance.
As the Michigan state health director, he had spent the past year, and some $30 million in state tax dollars, trying to avoid that very thing.