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The Health Care Cost Institute’s analysis of billing claims from three of the biggest commercial insurers finds that health services can be expensive in some areas while bargains in others. The findings complicate an assumption about health care markets.
Existing laws designed to control what doctors and hospitals do with your information need to be expanded to employers’ wellness programs, say advocates.
Workplace wellness programs have joined doctors, hospitals and your mother in the campaign to get you healthy. Will they treat your data carefully?
A large variety of information may be collected by wellness programs and shared with others, including businesses eager to make a buck off of it.
The National Academies of Science panel, however, did not address the question of whether these X-ray machines, which are currently not in use because of privacy concerns, are safe.
Although the government is responsible for providing health services to people in jail, prisoners are still often expected to pay for the treatment.
A family struggles with what to do when an autistic adolescent becomes aggressive.
Sometimes, no matter how hard emergency workers try, nothing can save a patient. One nurse says after the frenzy stops, taking time to reflect on that death helps him cope. And the idea is spreading.
The Democratic president candidate’s proposals to save consumers money are questioned by experts and health industry officials.
The new law is only the second in the country that allows women to get a year’s prescription at one time.
Many students avoid geriatrics because of the low pay and high complications, but six people over 90 offer a different perspective to help attract young doctors.
Essure has generated more than 5,000 complaints of serious side effects.
An Oregon pediatrician is among a growing number of doctors nationally trying to help families whose kids are at risk of experiencing trauma with lifelong health consequences.
10.5 million uninsured Americans targeted in enrollment campaign starting Nov.1
A report by an Institute of Medicine blue ribbon panel notes that taking steps to address this patient safety issue will involve efforts from across the health system.
Even as premiums for employer-based insurance increased only moderately this year, deductibles rose faster than total spending.
Alternative therapies aren’t proven to work any better than drugs — and they may even cost more. But Oregon hopes paying for them will reduce costs of hospitalizing for, and treatment of, opioid abuse.
Dr. Eric Topol says smartphones and other technology allow patients to monitor and control their chronic health issues.
Seeking to create smarter consumers, the California insurance department unveils a website showing wide variation in costs and quality of medical services across the state.
Preventive medicine trend highlights shortage of studies on drugs’ effects on very elderly.
