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		<title>Hospital Prices Have Risen Much Faster for Private Insurance Than Medicare Since 2019</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/health-costs/hospital-prices-have-risen-much-faster-for-private-insurance-than-medicare-since-2019/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjamieg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prices]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief compares the prices paid by private insurers for hospital care to increases in Medicare payment using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Producer Price Index (PPI), finding that hospital prices have risen much faster for private insurance than Medicare since 2019.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Look at the High Unemployment Hardship Exception to Medicaid Work Requirements Based on Unemployment Data from February 2025 to January 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-the-high-unemployment-hardship-exception-to-medicaid-work-requirements-based-on-unemployment-data-from-february-2025-to-january-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County-Level Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the 39 states that are adopting or may adopt the high unemployment hardship exception, about 1.4 million or 7.5% of Medicaid expansion enrollees live in one of the 133 counties that currently meet the high-unemployment criteria.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">708805</post-id>
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		<title>Current and Expired PEPFAR Reporting Requirements</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/current-and-expired-pepfar-reporting-requirements/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffkelliem]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PEPFAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Programs]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.kff.org/?p=708636</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[An overview of PEPFAR reporting requirements under current and past law.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">708636</post-id>
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		<title>CMS’ New Approach to Federal Medicaid Spending in Cases of Potential Fraud</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/cms-new-approach-to-federal-medicaid-spending-in-cases-of-potential-fraud/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjessicam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud, Waste and Abuse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMS is taking a new approach to fraud that will rely more heavily on options to pause or withhold significant amounts of federal funding in cases of potential fraud, which could have broad implications for states and enrollees. This issue brief explains the new approach.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mollyann Brodie Receives AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/mollyann-brodie-receives-aapor-award-for-exceptionally-distinguished-achievement/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/mollyann-brodie-receives-aapor-award-for-exceptionally-distinguished-achievement/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffrobins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) recognized KFF’s Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., with the AAPOR Award for Distinguished Achievement for her outstanding leadership and contributions to the field of public opinion research over three decades. Also, KFF’s Surveys of Immigrants received the 2026 AAPOR Inclusive Voices Award, which recognizes work examining complex challenges related to underrepresented populations.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">708975</post-id>
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		<title>Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Programs: Overview and Current Issues</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/federal-vaccine-injury-compensation-programs-overview-and-current-issues/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjoshuam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Information and Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief summarizes the history, rationale, and policy issues related to the federal government's key vaccine injury compensation programs, known as the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">708667</post-id>
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		<title>Medicaid Changes in House and Senate Reconciliation Bills Would Increase Costs for 1.3 Million Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-changes-in-house-reconciliation-bill-would-increase-costs-for-1-3-million-low-income-medicare-beneficiaries/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmaissm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Eligible Individuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 22, the House passed a reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would partially pay to extend expiring tax cuts by cutting Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 billion over ten years and 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2034, including 1.3 million people with Medicare, otherwise known as “dual-eligible individuals”.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">666212</post-id>
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		<title>Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/overview-of-president-trumps-executive-actions-impacting-lgbtq-health/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffbritw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Orientation]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.kff.org/?post_type=fact-sheet&#038;p=654315</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[This tracker examines Executive Actions taken by the Trump administration that have the potential to impact LGBTQ+ people’s health. It lists the action taken by date, provisions relevant to LGBTQ+ health, and describes potential impact, including litigation challenging these actions.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: 1115-waivers</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State-by-state information on Medicaid 1115 work requirement waivers.]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">698392</post-id>
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			<media:title type="html">8fece04e-5186-4dee-a3ac-0a76d038dd85</media:title>
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: Related Resources</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF resources on the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconcilation law. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Implementation Questions</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A list of the implementation questions relating to the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconciliation law.  ]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">698387</post-id>
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		<title>A Look at New or Expanded Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships from 2025: Findings from A Survey of State Medicaid Programs</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-new-or-expanded-medicaid-and-public-health-partnerships-from-2025-findings-from-a-survey-of-state-medicaid-programs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffalishar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Workforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maternal and Child Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opioids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State Medicaid and public health agencies both work to advance the health of their communities, often pursuing similar priorities and serving similar populations. This brief examines findings from KFF's 25th annual Medicaid budget survey, which asked state Medicaid directors about new or enhanced initiatives involving public health in FY 2025 or planned for FY 2026. 
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Data and Policies</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Detailed state and national data related to the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-overview/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enrollment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. The tracker includes state-level data on Medicaid enrollment and renewal outcomes as well as current state enrollment and renewal policies. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>KFF Poll Finds That Most Adults Lack Confidence in Key Health Agencies to Act Independently — The Monitor</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/kff-poll-finds-that-most-adults-lack-confidence-in-key-health-agencies-to-act-independently/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffhagerey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Information and Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maternal and Child Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproductive Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF’s latest Health Tracking Poll finds that confidence in the independence of key government health agencies overseeing food and drug safety and public health is low among the public and across partisans. Most of the public also share a distrust of agriculture, food, and pharmaceutical companies to act in the public’s best interest, compared with doctors and health care providers who are much more trusted among the public. The latest edition of the Monitor also examines how the information environment in which people consume news may shape their attitudes about vaccines.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Global COVID-19 Tracker</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/covid-19/global-covid-19-tracker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffannar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This tracker provides data on global COVID-19 cases and deaths by country, region, and income-level. Additionally, the tracker reports current closure, economic, and health system policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic globally. This tracker will be updated as new data are available.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Use: Expansion Trends and the Fiscal Pressure Ahead</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-mental-health-and-substance-use-expansion-trends-and-the-fiscal-pressure-ahead/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffheathers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long-Term Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Net]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief examines recent state trends in Medicaid behavioral health coverage and payment and state coverage of select treatment models for people with serious mental illness—a population that has historically faced significant barriers to care. This includes details about coverage of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) (as a provider type), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), and Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis (CSC-FEP). ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Minutes Matter, What Is AI’s Role? </title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/when-minutes-matter-what-is-ais-role/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Administrative Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care Coordination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health I.T.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health System Performance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When minutes matter for a patient’s care, what is AI’s role in clinical practice? Elad Walach, co-founder and CEO of Aidoc — a company with a comprehensive AI health care platform that analyzes real-time images and flags time-sensitive findings — shares his perspective on AI’s transformative power in dodging diagnostic error, improving access to care, and ensuring care quality in busy clinical settings. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Key Facts on Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/mental-health/5-key-facts-on-adolescent-mental-health-and-substance-use-disorders/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffnirmitap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opioids]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nineteen percent of adolescents experience moderate to severe anxiety and 2 million have a substance use disorder. This analysis covers the latest data on adolescent mental illness, suicide and drug overdose trends, and access to care.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What to Know About the BALANCE Model for GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid and the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/what-to-know-about-the-balance-model-for-glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicare/what-to-know-about-the-balance-model-for-glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief describes current coverage of GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to expand access and lower costs for GLP-1s through temporary demonstration programs including the BALANCE Model, and potential impacts on beneficiaries and program budgets.]]></description>
		
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