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Many inner-city hospitals in Medicaid-expansion states report big drops in the number of uninsured people for whom they provide care.
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Many inner-city hospitals in Medicaid-expansion states report big drops in the number of uninsured people for whom they provide care.
Implementation of the health law has renewed discussions of who wins, loses and gains access to health insurance. But questions persist. Here's a corrective to common misconceptions about who pays for health care.
About 800,000 people in California are presumed to be eligible for the newly expanded program but lack final approval. For a Los Angeles hairdresser and others like her, that means medical appointments are on hold.
One of the most successful initiatives in the Affordable Care Act has been the effort to sign up patients to be covered by Medicaid under an expanded program. Now comes the hard part: facing up to challenges brought on by having so many more people in the program.
A 39-year-old Philadelphia day care teacher, made three monthly premium payments at more than three times the subsidized rate just to make sure she was covered. And her insurance has still been canceled three times
Some say early concerns were exaggerated, though late enrollment and Medicaid problems also have cut demand.
The federal government hasn't been counting the number of people who buy non-exchange plans directly from insurance carriers -- and that number could be substantial.
At hospitals and clinics around the country, physicians are tapping artificial intelligence systems for warnings and recommendations.
Some of Missouri's working poor have had no dental coverage since benefits were cut in 2005.
The House this week held a hearing on payment shifts in Medicare Advantage plans and has scheduled a vote Friday on a proposal to revamp the system for paying doctors. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Politico Pro's Jennifer Haberkorn discuss the issues.
KHN's consumer columnist says insurance generally doesn't apply to charges for hospital or doctors services from before you signed up, with one exception.
Mary Chiu complained in 2011 that her elderly mother suffered terribly from poor care in a nursing home. Hers is among hundreds of cases that remain unresolved due to a backlog of investigations in Los Angeles County.
The cabinet member who shepherded the implementation of the health law told the president last month that she wanted to leave after open enrollment was finished, a White House official says.
Obamacare business is picking up at a storefront in New Haven, where some customers are getting insurance for the first time and others are hoping to lower their premiums.
Teledentistry experiment in California aims to bring care to needy patients in schools and nursing homes. Consulting with dentists over the Internet, hygienists and dental assistants offer preventive treatment and education.
Each of the states currently weighing expansion of Medicaid has a different idea of what it would look like.
Last week Congress delayed the upgrade of codes that govern the U.S. medical system. Some say this will waste billions of dollars and make cost-saving and life-saving research more difficult.
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