Sarah Kliff
Investigative and Health Care Reporter at The New York Times
Investigations and health policy for the @nytimes. I like reading your medical bills.
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Margot Sanger-Katz |Alicia Parlapiano
Now, Trump's big budget bill might require particularly painful cuts in the South. For months, Republicans have been trying to figure out how to reduce Medicaid spending to help enact President Trump's domestic agenda. But their list of possible cuts is shrinking. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that major cuts to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion were off the table.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Margot Sanger-Katz |Sarah Kliff
States have long used taxes on hospitals and nursing homes to increase federal matching funds. If Republicans end the tactic, red states could feel the most pain. In 1989, New Hampshire's Republican governor, Judd Gregg, had a gaping budget hole he didn't know how to fill. His health secretary came up with a solution: a tax maneuver he'd learned through the grapevine that would force Washington to send the state millions in extra Medicaid funds.
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1 month ago |
myheraldreview.com | Sarah Kliff
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages. Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch. kAm$@>6 C6D62C49 92D 7@F?5 E92E DF49 “D<:? DF3DE:EFE6D” 96=A 46CE2:? H@F?5D 962=] qFE :? E96 A2DE 76H J62CD[ 5@K6?D @7 F?DEF5:65 2?5 4@DE=J AC@5F4ED 92G6 7=@@565 E96 >2C<6E]k^AmkAmq2?5286 4@>A2?:6D D6E 6G6C\C:D:?8 AC:46D 7@C ?6H 3C2?5D @7 E96 AC@5F4ED[ E2<:?8 25G2?E286 @7 2 =@@A9@=6 :?
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Share Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch.Some research has found that such “skin substitutes” help certain wounds heal.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Many accountable care organizations, which track Medicare spending for large groups of patients, have alerted the government about overuse of skin substitutes. In March 2023, Dr. Danielle Whitacre, the chief medical officer of Bloom Healthcare in Colorado, and her colleagues complained to a Medicare claims processor about a baffling explosion in patients getting skin substitutes from mobile wound care clinics. Skin substitutes are typically not harmful.
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RT @sangerkatz: If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great p…
Medicare spending on bandages made out of dried placenta skyrocketed to $10 billion last year, our new @nytimes story finds — possibly representing one of the largest cases of Medicare waste in the program's history. https://t.co/C33umYJavu
Some federal health clinics still cannot access their grant money — despite judges ordering an end to the funding freeze. One clinic in Virginia ran out of money, and had to close three health care facilities. https://t.co/Ci0SK24BwU