Daniel Chang

Miami

Correspondent at KFF Health News

Correspondent for @KFFHealthNews covering Florida and the South.

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Articles

Improvements in School Professionals' Knowledge and Self‐Efficacy After Completing CDC HEADS UP to Schools Online Training

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Daniel Chang |Kelly Sarmiento |Dana Waltzman

Background School professionals, including classroom teachers, school administrators, psychologists, teachers' aides, and nurses, often interact with students with concussions. To ensure they have the knowledge to identify and manage concussions, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention developed the HEADS UP to Schools online training.
Discovering Broader Host Ranges and an IS-bound Prophage Class Through Long-Read Metagenomics

4 weeks ago | biorxiv.org | Jakob Wirbel |Angela Hickey |Daniel Chang |Nora J. Enright

AbstractGut bacteriophages profoundly impact microbial ecology and human health, yet they are greatly understudied. Using deep, long-read bulk metagenomic sequencing, a technique that overcomes fundamental limitations of short-read approaches, we tracked prophage integration dynamics in 12 longitudinal stool samples from six healthy individuals, spanning a two-year timescale.
Immigration Crackdowns Disrupt the Caregiving Industry. Families Pay the Price.

1 month ago | poz.com | Daniel Chang

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something hurts. Josephine, 16, has been diagnosed withtetrasomy 8p mosaicism, severe autism, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, among other conditions, which will require constant assistance and supervision for the rest of her life.
Senior living: Immigration crackdowns disrupt the caregiving industry. Families pay the price

1 month ago | presstelegram.com | Vanessa Sanchez |Daniel Chang

By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang, KFF Health NewsAlanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something hurts.
How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

1 month ago | sun-sentinel.com | Daniel Chang

By Daniel Chang, KFF Health NewsIt’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed during his first five weeks back in office was a promise to “Make America Healthy Again” by giving patients accurate health care prices.
Immigration crackdowns disrupt the caregiving industry. Families pay the price.

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Vanessa Sanchez |Daniel Chang

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something hurts. Josephine, 16, has been diagnosed with tetrasomy 8p mosaicism, severe autism, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, among other conditions, which will require constant assistance and supervision for the rest of her life.
How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

1 month ago | gazettextra.com | Daniel Chang

It's a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals - information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed during his first five weeks back in office was a promise to "Make America Healthy Again" by giving patients accurate health care prices.
How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

1 month ago | thederrick.com | Daniel Chang

It’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed during his first five weeks back in office was a promise to “Make America Healthy Again” by giving patients accurate health care prices.
How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

1 month ago | charlotteobserver.com | Daniel Chang

Theresa Schmotzer of Goodyear, Arizona, says she used price data she found online to negotiate her out-of-pocket costs for outpatient surgery last year. Schmotzer says she wishes hospitals themselves offered a menu with prices for procedures. "We need that level of transparency," she says. (Theresa Schmotzer/TNS) TNS It's a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals - information that had long been treated as a trade secret.
How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

1 month ago | star-telegram.com | Daniel Chang

Theresa Schmotzer of Goodyear, Arizona, says she used price data she found online to negotiate her out-of-pocket costs for outpatient surgery last year. Schmotzer says she wishes hospitals themselves offered a menu with prices for procedures. “We need that level of transparency,” she says.