In many places, victims of the opioid epidemic are silenced in decision-making about how to use opioid settlement money, a ...

A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the ...

GREELEY, Colo. — In early August, farmworkers gathered under a pavilion at a park here for a picnic to celebrate Farmworker ...

Federal regulators have blocked two private sector enrollment websites from accessing consumer information through the federal Obamacare marketplace, citing “anomalous activity.” It can be republished ...

Jamie Holmes says a surgery center tried to make her pay for two operations after she underwent only one. She refused to buckle, even after a collection agency sued her last winter. This story also ...

Sky Contreras grabs a blood tube — a tool used to test people for infectious diseases like HIV — in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. (Vanessa G. Sánchez/KFF Health News) SAN FRANCISCO — ...

The rapidly evolving field of street medicine — the practice of providing health care to homeless people living outside — is getting a jolt in California with a new player: a medical group devoted ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Blocks from where tourists stroll along the cobblestoned riverfront in this racially divided city, Detraya Gilliard made her way down the dark, ruptured sidewalks of Yamacraw Village, ...

2,325 People Died From Heat Last Year, Mostly In The Desert Southwest: Heat-related mortality is on the rise in the United States, especially in California, a new report shows. Here’s what the Golden ...

Santa Clara County To Buy Troubled Private Hospital: The Bay Area’s largest county announced plans Wednesday to buy Regional Medical Center, a 250-bed hospital in East San Jose that had been slated ...

For years, federal lawmakers have failed to deliver the money needed to fix derelict public housing, leaving tenants — mostly people of color and families with low incomes — living with mold and gun ...

Health care — and how much it costs — is scary. But you’re not alone with this stuff, and knowledge is power. “An Arm and a Leg” is a podcast about these issues, and is co-produced by KFF Health News.