Jordan Rau

@jordanrau

Senior Correspondent at KFF Health News.

Washington, D.C.

Joined February 2009

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Matthew Rae@matthew_t_rae · Oct 9

🚨Just released the 2024 @KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey. For the 2nd consecutive year family premiums grew 7%. A big increase this year, but over five years, premiums are just keeping pace with inflation - 🧵1/n kff.org/report-section…

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MedPAC@medicarepayment · Jul 17

Looking for some more summer reading? Today, MedPAC released its July 2025 data book on Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program! Find it on our website here: bit.ly/MedPACJuly2025…

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Jul 15

How to Find the Right Medical Rehab Services Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/hea…

jordanrau's tweet card. Specialized hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and home health agencies provide rehab therapy. Insurers may limit the services you can get.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Jul 15

For-profit medical rehab hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/hea…

jordanrau's tweet card. For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Mar 28

"Hard caps on rehab -- as few as 20 sessions a year -- endure in part because of an omission in the Affordable Care Act." kffhealthnews.org/MjAwNjg4NQ via @kffhealthnews

jordanrau's tweet card. Health plans limit physical or occupational therapy sessions to as few as 20 a year, no matter the patient’s infirmities. The limits persist despite federal rules banning insurers from setting annual...

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Mar 27

Health insurers limit physical therapy sessions to as few a year. Some patients run out without being able to walk, @KFFHealthNews found. cbsnews.com/news/physical-…

jordanrau's tweet card. Health plans limit physical or occupational therapy sessions to as few as 20 a year, no matter the patient's infirmities.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 19

Excellent @ReedAbelson @RebeccaDRobbins piece on how pharmacy benefit managers are driving local pharmacies out of business. @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/10/19/bus…

jordanrau's tweet card. The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 15

The latest installment of @judith_graham's insightful series on aging alone focuses on dementia. kffhealthnews.org/MTkyMDA0Mg via @kffhealthnews

jordanrau's tweet card. In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia by themselves often fall through the cracks.

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Robert Komaniecki@Komaniecki_R · Oct 11

Academics via email: Sorry but your question about late 17th C. Portuguese mercantilism is outside my area of expertise, which is early 17th C. Portuguese mercantilism Academics via Twitter: I teach linguistics at Oberlin and I am troubled by the Democrat’s strategy in Nevada

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 10

Free DC journalism conference on the intersection of nukes, climate change, AI and more. @KFF 12/5 & 12/6 outrider.org/conference/202…

jordanrau's tweet card. Public awareness of nuclear threats has never been more vital, so we convened journalists at the nexus of health, climate, and national security to deepen their knowledge about how these issues are...

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 10

“Later, one of our editors said of us: ‘Don’t ask them any questions. It will generate another 50 inches of copy.’” nytimes.com/2024/10/09/bus…

jordanrau's tweet card. Over four decades, he and his colleague James B. Steele gained renown for resourceful, often explosive investigative journalism at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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John Hillkirk@johnhillkirk · Oct 8

Congrats to our Barlett and Steele Gold award winners @KFFHealthNews and Cox Media Group and especially @DavidHilzenrath and @jodieTVnews and thanks to the Reynolds Center for the recognition! businessjournalism.org/2024/10/2024wi…

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 8

Good @CitizenCohn explainer on long-term care financial challenges Harris to address. huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…

jordanrau's tweet card. The Democratic nominee has a plan to help the "sandwich generation," aging Americans and people with disabilities.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 8

“They’ve turned it around and used it against us.” Here’s what really happens when the US slaps tariffs on China. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @business

jordanrau's tweet card. Pittsview, Alabama, and Emporia, Virginia, both make trailers essential for commerce. They show the surprising consequences of trying to protect American jobs.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 3

Good @annmarietimmins story on Medicare pilot program to help caregivers for people w/dementia newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/10/03/tak… via @nhbulletinnews

jordanrau's tweet card. Of New Hampshire’s 48,000 people caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, one type of dementia, in 2020, 66.2 percent reported a chronic health condition and 28.4 percent said they experienced...

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 3

“You’re as defiant a defendant as I’ve ever seen.” nytimes.com/2024/10/03/us/…

jordanrau's tweet card. Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 3

"Kennerly estimated it costs up to $14,000 to remodel an existing rest-stop bathroom to include a height-adjustable adult changing table." @tonyleys ✏️ kffhealthnews.org/MTkyMjU1OA via @kffhealthnews

jordanrau's tweet card. Adults with disabilities and their caregivers are pressing governments and private businesses across the U.S. to help them avoid undignified public bathroom experiences.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Oct 3

“I’m not about to pay $360 for therapy,” said Terrence Stewart, a Houston therapist. nytimes.com/2024/09/15/bus…

jordanrau's tweet card. Many Americans who need therapy are discouraged by the cost. But there are options to make it more affordable.

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Jordan Rau@jordanrau · Sep 30

Welcome to @KFF!

CChristine Mai-Duc@cmaiduc · Sep 30

I’m so thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @KFFHealthNews as a CA correspondent covering health policy and politics next month. What a dream to work with @youngsamantha @ByJudyLin @ahartreports and a whole team of mission-driven professionals doing thoughtful, impactful work.

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