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Despite political opposition to the Affordable Care Act, more than 186,000 people in Louisiana signed up for health insurance through healthcare.gov. The vast majority of those received subsidies, which could be lost in the King v. Burwell case before the Supreme Court.
Researchers at a Rhode Island hospital studied how Google Glass technology could be used to beam the images of emergency-room patients to specialists in different locations.
The ratings, posted on Medicare’s website Thursday, rank hospitals based on patient reviews.
Dense breasts make mammograms harder to read. As more states pass laws requiring that women be told of the risks, debate is growing about whether such warnings are helpful -- or even harmful.
A rare bipartisan effort will scrap the troubled physician payment formula and transition to a system focused on new quality measures.
Hospitals are relocating to more affluent communities to attract better-paying patients, but critics say they abandon the poor.
Through LiveHealth Online, Missouri’s largest insurer allows members to connect to doctors around the country from their computer, tablet or phone.
A new coalition of insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and provider and consumer advocacy groups launched an initiative to make more information available to consumers about the actual costs of health services.
The American Medical Association is funding experiments at universities around the country to try to change how we train physicians.
Almost 1 million New York City residents are still uninsured. Rather than go to emergency rooms or city hospitals, some of them get free care from medical school students.
The city is harnessing telemedicine to cut down on the overwhelming number of residents seeking primary care help by calling 911.
Lindberg retired this month after 30 years at the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine where he worked to put research online so that doctors could have the latest medical advancements at their fingertips, and patients could become increasingly engaged in their own care.
Primary care providers are teaming up with insurers, hospitals and others to improve patients’ health by coordinating their care and, the theory goes, curbing out-of-control health care costs.
While most Americans believe it is important to have a physical every year, the evidence suggests otherwise.
More than 300 large medical groups are being penalized because they did not score well on quality measures or didn’t report their efforts to the government. The incentives will soon expand to all doctors who treat Medicare patients.
The breach at the Washington state-based health insurer continues to reverberate as officials answer questions about what happened.
HHS says the improvement reflects what is happening to hospitals in states that increased the number of low-income people eligible for the health care program.
Redesigning and replacing hospital gowns is one example of efforts by hospitals and health systems to enhance the patient experience.
In a California lawsuit seeking to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications at patients’ request, two plaintiffs are physicians with serious illnesses. Both want the option of choosing to end their lives.
UnitedHealthcare is no longer routinely paying for out-of-network emergency room physicians and other specialists even when they work for hospitals in the insurer’s network.
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