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No state signed more people up for health law coverage in the first health law enrollment period, but a sometimes faulty website and spotty customer service often frustrated the process.
Testosterone prescriptions in the U.S. more than tripled in the last decade, but recent studies raise serious safety and financial concerns.
There's a lot riding on these cost calculations for insurance companies, consumers and even the health law's future.
Between 2008 and 2012, multispecialty practices saw their bad debt go up 14 percent, according to a recent survey, and some have begun to change their business practices in response.
Despite a surge in enrollment in the two weeks before the April 15 deadline to enroll for insurance under the health law, many more Californians have not signed up.
Medical debt is worrisome and embarrassing, but more importantly, it can have long-term financial consequences. Here are some tips that may be helpful to avoid or alleviate medical debt.
KHN's consumer columnist says people who qualified for premium and cost-sharing subsidies but later have earnings that put them over that limit can switch to less expensive plans.
Hospitals in remote places are making tradeoffs to adopt electronic medical records. Some are joining larger systems, sacrificing their independence. Others are going it alone, carefully.
Tight deadlines and technical challenges dampen enthusiasm among states to set up their own online insurance marketplaces.
State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler says rules will help consumers see which providers are in-network and ensure they get the coverage they have paid for.
Many of those in Florida who bought insurance plans on the health law's federal marketplace were previously uninsured -- one of the reasons premiums will likely rise in 2015, a senior executive for insurer Florida Blue says.
In Seattle, an unlikely collaboration provides weekend and after-hours care for patients who in the past had turned to hospital emergency rooms for non-emergency treatments.
A federal court's ruling dissolving the merger of the state's biggest hospital system and biggest doctors' practice may discourage future ventures.
KHN's consumer columnist looks into issues raised by the health law.
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