IRS Could Help Find Many Uninsured People, But Doesn’t
Many low-income households that claim earned income tax credit lack health insurance, Urban Institute finds.
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Many low-income households that claim earned income tax credit lack health insurance, Urban Institute finds.
As medicine moves to a patient-centered model, doctors and other health providers are slowly adding patients’ self-reports to the other tests and exams they use to determine care.
A study published in Health Affairs examines how physician-patient interactions often present missed opportunities to control patients’ health care spending.
New law applies state's low-income health care program to children in the U.S. illegally.
Harken Health, a new UnitedHealthcare subsidiary, offers members free unlimited doctor visits and health coaches at 10 clinics in Chicago and Atlanta.
A recent survey finds that the number of workers who say they would give up some health benefits to get a pay raise has grown from 10 to 20 percent since 2012.
New Hampshire has one of the highest opioid overdose rates and one of the lowest rates of access to treatment.
Some advocates for mentally ill people say the administration’s action is long overdue.
Getting good information is critical to figure out where resources need to go to treat babies dependent on drugs. Pennsylvania relies on old statistics and incomplete data, but that may be changing.
A survey of more than 3,500 people caring for family members with dementia finds that many are spending down personal savings and cutting into their own basic needs to meet their loved one's expenses.
Seeing more problem gamblers than ever before, the state is investing in education, training and prevention.
Guilt still haunts a new mother who was addicted to opioids when she got pregnant. Once she was ready to ask for help, treatment programs that could handle her complicated pregnancy were hard to find.
The request also hints at a potential compromise from the justices.
A new report says care varies widely between Louisiana’s jails and prisons.
One hospital in Connecticut gives babies and moms fighting addiction a quiet room where they can be together as the drugs leave their systems.
An MIT economist and Harvard oncologist propose offering loans to patients to cover the cost of expensive, curative drugs, financed by private sector investment in loan securities.
In the past eight months, Medicare officials have quietly granted the special enrollment periods to more than 15,000 Medicare Advantage members in seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes Seconal, the drug most commonly used in prescribed for terminally ill patients who want to end their lives, physician-assisted suicide, has doubled the price to more than $3,000.
More babies are being born dependent on opioids. The good news is they can safely be weaned from the drug. But there's little research on which medical treatment is best, or its long-term effects.
With Obamacare battles largely behind us, presidential candidates in 2016 seem focused on other issues.
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