Health Insurance

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re…

1 week ago

Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

When Medicine Transcends the Sterile Clinical Encounter

3 weeks ago

Business of Health: When Patients Become Secondary to the System

Can the Health System Align Around a Common Goal — Better Health

2 months ago

A Shock to the U.S. Health Industry

In the health industry, we often claim that the patient is at the center of care; that naïve Band-Aid should…

5 months ago

We Know the Health Ecosystem is Fragmented, Resulting in Rising Costs and Poorer Patient Outcomes, But What Are We Doing About It?

As We Enter the “Post-Fragmentation” Period, Health System Kinetics Points Us Toward Solutions

1 year ago

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

Amid Changing Abortion Laws, 1-in-10 Large Firms Say Their Largest Plan Doesn’t Cover Legally Provided Abortions Under Any Circumstances

1 year ago

Doctors and Patients Try to Shame Insurers Online to Reverse Prior Authorization Denials

This story is authored by LAUREN SAUSSER and is reprinted with permission by KFF Health News. Sally Nix was furious…

2 years ago

New Alzheimer’s Drugs Will Worsen Inequality

Disclosure: I own a fraction of a share of Eli Lilly stock. We live in a very exciting time! Alzheimer’s…

2 years ago

Your Company Health Plan Sucks and Costs Too Much

Companies can change how they pay for healthcare coverage so they and you get a much better deal — happier,…

2 years ago

Reckoning or Opportunity?

How America’s pharmaceutical industry can help prevent an erosion of the U.S. healthcare system.

2 years ago

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