Dentists: Improve patient safety by optimizing antibiotic prescribing | Blogs
Dentists prescribe approximately 10% of all outpatient antibiotics in the United States.1 Many of these antibiotic prescriptions may not be needed...
Misinformation About Immigrants in the 2024 Presidential Election
As part of KFF’s ongoing effort to identify and track misinformation in the U.S., the latest KFF Health Misinformation Tracking...
Accelerating solutions to cancer through impact investing
Certain cancer rates are on the rise, and outcome inequities remain a major public health concern. Getting into clinical trials...
Contract management software for healthcare: get paid faster and in full
What happens when payers don’t comply with contract terms? What if a provider overlooks the fine print? Contracts between healthcare...
Opioid Deaths Fell in Mid-2023, But Progress Is Uneven and Future Trends are Uncertain
Since the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency in 2017, it has claimed 454,464 lives, with opioid-related deaths...
What Are Probiotics and How They Affect Us?
Now let us see how probiotics help our gut and what steps we should take to find the best probiotic...
Cardinal Health acquiring Integrated Oncology Network for $1.1B
Healthcare supply and services company Cardinal Health has a deal in place to acquire Integrated Oncology Network, a collection of...
As Medicaid Unwinding Concludes in Most States, KFF Finds 25 Million Lost Medicaid Coverage but Enrollment is 10 Million Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels
Over 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid and over 56 million had their coverage renewed, according to KFF’s analysis...
Medicaid enrollment is higher than pre-pandemic levels
The Medicaid unwinding is coming to a close, and a new analysis from KFF finds that while many people have...
North Carolina’s Effort to Relieve Medical Debt
On July 26, 2024, CMS approved North Carolina’s plan to incentivize hospitals with enhanced Medicaid payments to relieve up to...
