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The Medicare GLP-1 Discount Has One Big Catch: Some Sick Patients Don’t Qualify

In January, Jeff La Marca got a prescription for the popular weight loss drug Zepbound. But he couldn’t afford the $750 monthly price tag. Then Medicare launched an 18-month pilot program that offers GLP-1 medications to some enrollees for only

August 26, 2026

Headless FDA Gets a New Nominee

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie

August 26, 2026

Medicare’s Paying Less for Cataract Surgery. Eye Doctors Are Turning to Lucrative Lasers.

Tammy Chalala, a retired dietitian in New York, was thrilled with the results of her cataract surgeries, which left her with close to 20/20 vision. She said she paid nearly $4,000 out-of-pocket for her two surgeries last year because she

August 26, 2026

What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently

It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.”

August 26, 2026

My Husband Was Kicked Out of Hospice for Dying Too Slowly

“No more operations,” he said. It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of three operations related to aortic aneurysms, sepsis, and a terrifying descent into delirium tied to

August 26, 2026

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Public Health Further Politicized Under the Threat of More Firings

The Host In a highly unusual White House news conference this week, President Donald Trump — without evidence — boldly blamed the painkiller Tylenol and a string of childhood vaccines for causing a recent rise in autism. That came just

September 29, 2025

AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments

Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients. The

September 29, 2025

Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages

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. Owlett is one of four residents in

September 29, 2025

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?

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

September 29, 2025

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The Medicare GLP-1 Discount Has One Big Catch: Some Sick Patients Don’t Qualify

Headless FDA Gets a New Nominee

Medicare’s Paying Less for Cataract Surgery. Eye Doctors Are Turning to Lucrative Lasers.

What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently

My Husband Was Kicked Out of Hospice for Dying Too Slowly

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Public Health Further Politicized Under the Threat of More Firings

AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments

Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?