Ballad Health, the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the U.S., receives A grades from the Tennessee government. But the scoring rubric ignores most of Ballad hospitals’ reported performance.

Brett Kelman reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/t…

Going to bed late, regardless of whether you’re a night owl or an early bird by nature, is linked to worse mental health, according to a new study by Stanford researchers.

Read more in our #MorningBriefing : kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefi…

NEW: Health centers are offering more care without pay. Some are cutting services, which impacts people who already face disproportionate barriers to care.

Katheryn Houghton reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/s…

In the coming fiscal year, California is expected to allocate $61 million to an experiment paying meth users to get sober. Participants can earn up to $599 a year. Via KFF Health News

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NEW: Rural hospitals say federal lifeline launched last year needs fixes; lawmakers grapple with adding controversial program.

Sarah Jane Tribble explains ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…

NEW: People drawn to #Obamacare plans offering $0 premiums & low out-of-pocket costs should know some federal subsidies introduced by President Biden are set to expire next year.

Andy Miller (@gahealthnews) explains how that could affect you.⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/o…

Políticos y celebridades diseminan mentiras sobre las vacunas

📝: Amy Maxmen, PhD & Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 kffhealthnews.org/news/article/l…

We’ve launched a new guide to health policy in the U.S.

As Drew Altman, our CEO and editor of #HealthPolicy101 explains, this mini “textbook” provides faculty, students, and others interested in health policy with the basics on key topics. bit.ly/4e2O9eI

“We have patients who don’t want to deliver in a hospital, and that breaks our heart.” Florida is the first state to allow C-sections outside of hospitals.

Phil Galewitz reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…

Another year, another pandemic scare, yet once again chicken-egg vaccines are what’s mainly on the table.

Arthur Allen reports for KFF Health News & CBS News

Children who consume peanut products from infancy are significantly less likely to develop peanut allergies by early adolescence, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal NEJM Evidence.

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Websites vanished for two Tennessee companies that were behind the AGGA dental device, Orthomatrix & The Facial Beauty Institute. The AGGA was yanked off the market last year due to reporting by AnnaWernerCBS and I, and is now being criminally investigated.
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1/ Weight loss drugs like Ozempic & Wegovy are more popular, but most physicians haven't been trained to use them
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NEW: Psychoactive drugs show promise for treating PTSD and severe depression. That doesn’t mean they’ll be widely available soon.

Dawn Megli reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/p…

Ballad Health, the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, is graded on a scoring rubric that ignores most hospital performance. Ballad always gets an A, even though most quality-of-care goals aren’t met and its ERs are glacially slow. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/t…

NEW: A Tennessee agency that grades the U.S.’ largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly gives Ballad Health full credit on dozens of quality-of-care measurements, but the scoring rubric mostly ignores hospital performance.

Brett Kelman reports. ⤵️
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NEW: Federal officials are offering $75 to dairy workers who agree to be tested for bird flu, but who would care for them if they became ill?

Tony Leys & Amy Maxmen, PhD report. ⬇️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…

We are thrilled to announce that Healthbeat will launch this summer in NYC and Atlanta. Healthbeat, which we’re launching in partnership with KFF Health News, will join Chalkbeat and Votebeat in the Civic News Company family. More at healthbeat.org.

Welcome to Healthbeat! We’re a new nonprofit journalism initiative that aims to help people understand our public health system so they can participate in strengthening it.

.Civic News Company is collaborating with KFF Health News to create this new model for reporting nationally, with local bureaus coming this summer to NYC and Atlanta.