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KHN consumer columnist Michelle Andrews examines how subsidies for health insurance can be divvied up among family members choosing separate plans and how a miscalculation of the premium will be handled on your taxes.
States and the federal government aim to renew coverage for 15.3 million already signed up on exchanges and Medicaid — and enroll about 10 million more who are currently uninsured.
But a new pitch by Republican candidates to make the birth control pill available without a prescription could have unintended financial consequences for women.
Experts says a series of recent threats, including the first Ebola patient to develop symptoms in the U.S., raise questions about the state’s capacity to deal with contagious diseases.
Nearly 4 in 10 private sector workers lack paid sick leave, many of them women and low-wage earners.
Although fewer patients are now returning to the hospital within a month, the fines reached a record level this year.
Those who held onto plans that didn’t comply with the health law may have to choose new ones for 2015, and they could cost more.
Three hospitals react to KHN’s story on proton therapy with the statements.
A proton beam therapy center in Indiana is closing, and insurers are reluctant to cover the expensive treatment for common cancers. But plans for three new proton therapy centers for the D.C. area are still moving forward.
Consumers can look up their doctors and see if they were paid in any way by the health industry.
Jeffrey Brenner, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, is betting that coordinated care for “super utilizer” patients will reduce health costs.
Kaiser Health News consumer columnist gives readers some basic information to help them weigh their Medicare options.
A quarter of the nation’s hospitals are exempt from penalties, quality bonuses and other payment reforms.
They were among 21 states required by Obamacare to broaden eligibility for school-age children.
