• Click here to watch Pattani on “The Daily Report.”
• Read Pattani’s “From Narcan to Gun Silencers, Opioid Settlement Cash Pays Law Enforcement Tabs” and “Sock Hops and Concerts: How Some Places Spent Opioid Settlement Cash.”

KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed government claims that new technologies will help Medicaid recipients comply with new work requirement rules on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Oct. 31.

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• Read “Officials Show Little Proof That New Tech Will Help Medicaid Enrollees Meet Work Rules,” by Whitehead and KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell

KFF Health News Southern California correspondent Claudia Boyd-Barrett discussed the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in and around health care facilities such as hospitals and community health centers on Radio Bilingüe’s “Línea Abierta” on Oct. 30.

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• Read Boyd-Barrett’s “California Faces Limits as It Directs Health Facilities To Push Back on Immigration Raids.”

KFF Health News executive editor Alex Wayne discussed the federal government shutdown and rising Affordable Care Act premiums on Sirius XM’s “The Smerconish Podcast” on Oct. 30.

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• Click here to watch Seitz on “Hello Houston.”
• Read Seitz and Julie Appleby’s “A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal.”

KFF Health News senior correspondent Phil Galewitz discussed the federal government shutdown on FOX 5’s “On The Hill” on Oct. 26.

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KFF Health News contributor Patricia Kime discussed potential cancer clusters on nuclear missile bases on NBC Montana on Oct. 22.

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• Read Kime’s “Nuclear Missile Workers Are Contracting Cancer. They Blame the Bases.”

KFF Health News senior contributing editor Elisabeth Rosenthal discussed why the U.S. health care system is so complicated and what you need to know about ACA open enrollment on CNN’s “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” on Oct. 17 and Oct. 21, respectively.

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• Listen to Rosenthal discuss ACA open enrollment on “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.”

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Rovner also discussed the shutdown and health care costs on WYPR’s “Midday” on Oct. 20.

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KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed the shutdown on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Oct. 17.

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KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Georgia’s work requirement extension on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Oct. 10.

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KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed wage garnishment in Garfield County, Colorado, on Aspen Public Radio on Oct. 7.

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• Read Bichell’s “Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections.”

KFF Health News correspondent Darius Tahir discussed the use of artificial intelligence for prior authorizations in Medicare on KUOW’s “Soundside” on Oct. 20.

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• Read Tahir’s “AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments.”

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• Click here to watch Rovner on “Quest Means Business.”
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KFF Health News South Carolina correspondent Lauren Sausser discussed a Trump administration pilot program to have AI approve and deny care for Medicare patients on Apple News’ “Apple News Today” on Oct. 7.

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• Read Sausser and Darius Tahir’s “AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments.”

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Bram Sable-Smith appeared on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” on Oct. 5 to discuss states’ cutting of Medicaid provider payments to close budget gaps.

• Click here to hear Sable-Smith on “Weekend Edition Sunday.”
• Read Sable-Smith and Sarah Jane Tribble’s “States Are Cutting Medicaid Provider Payments Long Before Trump Cuts Hit.”

KFF Health News senior correspondent Bernard J. Wolfson appeared on The Daily Yonder’s “The Yonder Report” newscast on Oct. 8 to discuss local solutions to rural doctor shortages in California.

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• Read Wolfson’s “Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages.”

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• Click here to hear Anthony on “Apple News Today.”
• Read Anthony’s “A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man’s Organs — Until His Doctor Intervened.”

KFF Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed the changing availability of Affordable Care Act plans on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Today” on Sept. 19.

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KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed federal changes to Medicaid funding on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Sept. 19.

• Click here to hear Rayasam on “The Georgia Health Report.”
• Read Sam Whitehead and Rayasam’s “Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems.”

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Rovner also delved into the “Make America Healthy Again” report on children’s health on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Sept. 16 and on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Sept. 12. During that C-SPAN appearance, she also covered the debate over extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

• Click here to hear Rovner on “Here & Now.”
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KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony discussed Larry Black Jr., a young man whose organs were nearly harvested before a surgeon intervened, on KMOX’s “Total Information AM” on Sept. 17.

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• Read Anthony’s “A Surgical Team Was About To Harvest This Man’s Organs — Until His Doctor Intervened.”

KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan discussed the upheaval at the National Cancer Institute under the Trump administration on WAMU’s “1A” on Sept. 17.

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• Read Pradhan’s “World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos,” with reporting from Arthur Allen.

KFF Health News senior correspondent Arthur Allen discussed the FDA’s move away from expert reviews of new drugs on CBS News’ “CBS News 24/7” on Sept 15.

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• Read Allen’s “Under Trump, FDA Seeks To Abandon Expert Reviews of New Drugs.”

KFF Health News senior health policy correspondent Stephanie Armour discussed the impact of federal health care funding cuts on states on PBS NewsHour on Sept. 13.

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• Read Armour’s “In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions,” with reporting from Christine Mai-Duc, Sam Whitehead, and Arielle Zionts.

KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed the September meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Sept. 12.

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• Read Jackie Fortiér’s “RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children.”

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• Click here to watch Pradhan on “CBS Morning News.”

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Kennedy’s pseudoscientific approach to running HHS on WAMU’s “1A” on Sept. 8.

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KFF Health News South Dakota correspondent Arielle Zionts discussed collaborative rural hospital networks on Apple News’ “Apple News Today” podcast on Sept. 9.

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• Read Zionts’ “Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive.”

KFF Health News chief rural correspondent Sarah Jane Tribble discussed Medicaid cuts on WUNC’s “Due South” on Sept. 3.

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Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed recommendations for covid-19 vaccinations for children on NPR’s “Morning Edition” on Aug. 20. Gounder then discussed the infant mortality crisis in Mississippi on CBS News’ “CBS Evening News Plus” on Aug. 22. She also discussed the resignation of top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials after the ousting of agency director Susan Monarez on CBS News’ “CBS Mornings” on Aug. 28.

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• Read Gounder’s “Senior CDC Officials Resign After Monarez’s Ouster, Citing Concerns Over Scientific Independence.”

KFF Health News national public health correspondent Amy Maxmen discussed how Trump administration officials interfered in the CDC’s ability to respond to the West Texas measles outbreak on CBS News’ “CBS News Chicago” on Aug. 25 and on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Sept. 2.

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• Read Maxmen’s “As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered.”

KFF Health News Nevada correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed how Medicaid changes may affect Native American communities on KPFA’s “UpFront” on Aug. 27.

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• Read Orozco Rodriguez’s “Native Americans Want To Avoid Past Medicaid Enrollment Snafus as Work Requirements Loom.”

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest appearance in front of a Senate committee on WBUR’s “Here & Now” on Sept. 4.

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• Click here to watch Gounder on “The Daily Report.”

KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed how President Donald Trump’s recent megabill is unlikely to insulate Medicaid expansion holdout states from health cuts on WUGA’s “The Georgia Health Report” on Aug. 8.

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• Read Whitehead’s “Even in States That Fought Obamacare, Trump’s New Law Poses Health Consequences.”

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• Click here to watch Houghton on The Majority Report with Sam Seder.
• Read Houghton’s “Republicans Call Medicaid Rife With Fraudsters. This Man Sees No Choice but To Break the Rules.” and “New Medicaid Federal Work Requirements Mean Less Leeway for States,” co-reported with Bram Sable-Smith.

Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed what’s fueling the rise of colon cancer in adults under 54 on CBS News 24/7’s “The Daily Report” on Aug. 4.

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