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The New York City borough is close to losing two hospitals, prompting fears that their shuttering could overwhelm nearby facilities and hurt care for residents -- and that other closures may not be far behind.
KHN is gathering the data from states that have approved and published premiums for the online marketplaces that will open Oct. 1 under the federal health law.
Penalties will total $227 million, but many hospitals will see their fines go down in October in the second year of the program.
This chart lists state averages of readmission rates and the number of hospitals in each state that will be penalized.
Kaiser Health News' data on hospital readmissions penalties comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Four companies to offer 31 health plans on new state exchange at a variety of prices.
The partnerships with the Spanish-language media giant are among the most concrete ways to date that insurers have invested in the marketing of Obamacare, but they also could skirt a key principle of the Affordable Care Act: that it should foster insurer competition and consumer choice.
Mary Agnes Carey speaks with Politico Pro's Jennifer Haberkorn about two House committee meetings on Capitol Hill Thursday where IRS and CMS officials were grilled about implementing a system to verify consumer income under the health law.
These pointers will help you make sense of contradictory headlines about how much insurance could cost you when the Affordable Care Act marketplaces open for enrollment in October.
State insurance officials unveiled proposed prices for health plans to be sold on the exchanges beginning Oct. 1. But those plans, and the prices, have yet to be approved by the federal government and could change.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader about whether the health law requires employer-sponsored insurance to cover maternity benefits for an employee's dependents.
The number of claims filed for medical and family planning services in the new state-run Texas Women's Health Program has dropped since the state ousted Planned Parenthood and set up its own program without federal financing.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston offer emotional and practical support for families dealing with the disease.
The difference between inpatient and observational care status can have a big effect on Medicare beneficiaries -- both in terms of the bills they face and the post-hospital options available to them.
In response to readers' questions, columnist explains that all policies offered on the online exchanges must cover 10 "essential health benefits," but the plans will be classified according to the proportion of costs that consumers will be responsible for paying.
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