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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration's Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Map shows there are 31,600 children eligible for the new specialty plan designed for those in the child welfare system across 11 regions.
Overwhelmed mental health professionals are using telephone consultations and other approaches to reach patients in underserved communities.
A new telemedicine technology, Maryland eMedicare, allows critical care physicians to monitor ICU patients hundreds of miles away.
Once limited to filling and dispensing drugs, pharmacists in California are increasingly providing direct care to patients.
They work with doctors to assess patients, spot medication errors and even write prescriptions.
As modern technology has ushered in more convenience and flexibility for users, it has also burdened victims with one worry: Identity theft.
But finding a way to finance the SGR replacement may be even more difficult.
The immigrant community became self-sufficient by necessity, building its own hospital more than a century ago. Now, that hospital offers a health plan on Covered California that is exceeding its enrollment goals.
Even as tens of thousands of West Virginians enroll in Medicaid, experts caution that the culture also will have to change.
If Congress finally overhauls the way Medicare pays doctors, experts say patients would see new emphasis on coordinated care and preventive services.
The health law seeks to change how the poor get routine care, moving them into doctors' offices where more consistent supervision may improve their health.
Outreach efforts in remote places like Ethiopia could offer models for medically underserved areas in the U.S.
Former software engineer Kurt DelBene restores and races cars when he's not looking under the hood of big computer systems.
Just a decade ago, 90 percent of babies born with clubfoot had extensive surgeries to correct it. Those surgeries often led to a lifetime of chronic pain. That has been replaced by a cheaper, noninvasive casting technique, championed by parents.
Many states are taking advantage of a $3 billion health law program meant to help older Americans avoid nursing homes and instead get long-term care in their own homes -- something many of them prefer.
Capitol Hill committees appear close to replacing the controversial physician payment system that rewards doctors for volume with one that offers incentives for quality and coordination of care.
The chance to finish medical school early is attracting increased attention from students burdened with six-figure education loans. Medical school administrators and policymakers see it as a way to produce doctors faster and as a response to the looming shortage of primary care physicians.
While it may be a logical place to enroll the uninsured, consumer confusion -- and illness -- are hurdles for outreach workers.
Maryland hospitals have agreed to new spending limits and big changes in the way they are paid, creating what could be a national model.
A growing number are starting managed care plans to boost revenue and gain more control over patient care.
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