Congressional Republicans are pushing plans that could make deep cuts to Medicaid to finance President Donald Trump’s tax ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low ...

Jay Bhattacharya, nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health, opposed most covid mandates. Without an honest public ...

Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccination rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations ...

States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are ...

Pain MD, which once ran as many as 20 clinics across three states, gave chronic-pain patients about 700,000 total injections ...

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink. This story also ran on ...

In several red states, officials say few or no abortions happened in 2023, raising alarm among researchers about the ...

As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such ...

Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks ...

In other state news, Florida Democrats have filed legislation to reverse the six-week abortion ban; the Colorado House passes a bill to protect patients from forced institutionalization; New York Gov.