For Autistic Adults, Coverage Options Are Scarce
Although efforts by the federal and state governments are forcing insurers to cover costly treatments, patients who turn 21 "fall off a cliff."
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Although efforts by the federal and state governments are forcing insurers to cover costly treatments, patients who turn 21 "fall off a cliff."
Price transparency efforts in the Granite State help consumers and employers ask smarter questions.
After Vidant Pungo Hospital was shuttered this summer, physicians and patients in this rural North Carolina town fear for their future.
Comprehensive report on end-of-life care says both medicine and society need to change "to make those final days better."
Insurers try to avoid conflict with church positions on contraception by using third parties to provide coverage.
Hollywood center taps medical authorities to answer producers' questions on everything from autism to tuberculosis.
The federal-state program, called CHIP, is funded only for another year under the law, and advocates worry that without it, some kids may suffer.
The price a consumer pays for a medical procedure can vary significantly -- often with little difference in quality.
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act seek to curb individual states from setting new mandates requiring insurers to cover specific care but many local legislators are trying to work around that.
Like many employers across the country, Miami-Dade County isn't allowed to know the prices its own insurance administrators negotiate with healthcare providers, even though the county is self-insured and workers' claims are paid with taxpayer dollars.
Unlike Medicare, private insurers do not publish their payments, and experts say the prices they pay hospitals for the same procedure vary widely.
A South Los Angeles family illustrates the opportunities and challenges as the state takes its first steps toward expanding behavioral treatment for poor children.
Federal judges will decide whether 11 clinics must close to comply with state law. If they do close, some women in the state will be more than 200 miles from a clinic that performs abortions.
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