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KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and health policy analyst Susan Dentzer joined Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour Tuesday to answer questions from consumers about enrollment and the health care law.
Even when using hospitals in their insurance network, people often find that the doctors are not covered and they are responsible for those charges.
DaVita HealthCare Partners, a kidney dialysis company, is picking up on a new way insurers and the government are paying for health care -- by keeping people healthy through primary care.
The health insurer signs a consent agreement saying it would cap the amount consumers must pay for four popular HIV drugs.
Two staffers accuse the county of altering the dates when complaints were received amid rising concern over the pace of investigations.
At issue is whether the federal government can pay subsidies to people living in states that use healthcare.gov, the federal exchange.
A state law now requires insurers to reveal prices of their medical tests, and the variation is amazing, bargain hunters say. An MRI of the back is $614 at one place; $1,800 at another.
An interview with Consumer Reports’ Nancy Metcalf, author of a new guide to end-of-life planning.
Moving to close what many see as a major loophole in Affordable Care Act rules, the Obama administration will ban large-employer medical plans from qualifying under the law if they don’t offer hospitalization coverage.
Home health care aides often toil for low pay and in jobs without benefits, including health insurance. A million more home health care workers will be needed to meet demand over the next decade.
ACA insurance plans may not be cheaper — or even affordable — for those with HIV and AIDS because of high medication costs, according to patient advocates.
On Wednesday, Medicare officials agreed to pay for Glenda Jimmo’s home health care, reversing an earlier denial that said she didn’t qualify for coverage because she was not improving.
Thirteen years ago, Oregon passed a bill requiring trained translators be available in health care settings for patients who speak little English. But there are still fewer than 100 qualified interpreters in the state.
Patient advocates say that, because of an official coverage reminder “the door is closing” for ALS patients who depend on Medicare to get speech-generation devices.
Many insurers are restricting access to new drugs that promise higher cure rates because the price tags can run $95,000 or more.
An asthma prevention program in California hopes to offer returns based on savings from reduced hospital visits.
KHN reporter Jordan Rau spoke on NPR about data that say about 75,000 patients per year die from infections they got in the hospital. Nearly 700 hospitals around the U.S. have higher than expected infection rates.
Each year about 75,000 patients die from infections they caught in the hospital. A KHN analysis of federal data shows that nearly 700 hospitals have higher than expected rates of infection for at least one condition.
The powerful California Nurses Association has put Ebola on the bargaining table in its negotiations for a new contract with Kaiser Permanente.
he Obama administration may reverse course on an online spreadsheet that lets large employers comply with the health law by offering what consumer advocates call substandard insurance.
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