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Health insurance giant Aetna will stop selling insurance through most state exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. It’s the third major insurer to pull back from Obamacare. Who’s affected and what this means for the future of the ACA.
These findings in JAMA Internal Medicine also note the importance of coordinating care and, some experts say, could provide a model for other diseases.
MedStar Health is among the hospital systems nationwide that are setting up support systems to help doctors talk openly to patients and their families when treatments go awry.
But more training is needed for such translators to do their jobs well, without miscommunications and misunderstandings.
Putting sexual development on hold gives children a breather as they consider transitioning to the opposite gender. But when to begin?
Researchers estimate thousands of children suffer two debilitating eye conditions because they don’t get proper exams while young.
But the remaining uninsured are tough to reach.
Fewer choices in 2017 health care plans await consumers in dozens of markets where Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Humana are pulling out, but withdrawals may hit Arizona, the Carolinas, Georgia and parts of Florida hardest.
The legislation would have required drug companies to notify the state and insurers about expensive new treatments or price hikes.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine detailed how the diagnoses of risk for a common hereditary heart disease may have been skewed because studies have traditionally had low numbers of black participants.
A study explores how coverage gains resulting from the federal health law may have changed people’s health care habits and spending.
A big backlog of applications at the state’s licensing board is holding up hiring by hospitals and making it difficult for recent nurse graduates — and experienced nurses from out of state — to work.
Some hospitals and other medical providers are experimenting with ride-hailing services to help patients without access to cars get to their appointments.
The research finds that many plans don’t make details about what services are not covered readily apparent.
Spending too much time in their hospital beds can leave older patients sicker than when they were first admitted.
State health departments are beginning to require physicians to complete continuing medical education courses to learn how and when this therapy might work for patients.
An analysis in the International Journal of Health Services finds disparities between white young people and their black and Hispanic counterparts in how often they receive mental health treatment.
Many expected that the federal health law would push these employers in this direction. An analysis by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds evidence that these predictions are coming to fruition.
Report portrays Affordable Care Act’s individual market as improving with rising enrollments of healthier, lower-risk consumers, a performance that clashes with recent complaints from some large insurers.
University of Southern California scientists determined the virus uses certain types of protein to interrupt the brain development of fetuses. The finding is a step toward the possible development of an intervention that could prevent the infection from leading to microcephaly.
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