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In a voice vote Thursday, the House passed yet another short-term patch to the Medicare physician payment formula. Mary Agnes Carey and CQ Roll Call's Emily Ethridge discuss what that means for the effort to make long-term changes to how providers are paid.
If a patient falls behind on premiums, insurers can hold off paying their doctor bills, and deny them altogether if the patient fails to make good.
A new study shows that younger people in eight cities who make more than about $32,000 a year won't get tax credits to help pay for insurance premiums.
Here is an in-depth look at what went wrong at MNsure, the Minnesota exchange that has been plagued by miscommunication, technology failures and management mistakes.
Proponents say new gadgetry could transform medical diagnosis and treatment, but critics worry about commercial uses and possible breaches of privacy.
Nursing home oversight may be moving toward more effective ways to detect poor care.
With less than four weeks to go before the deadline, ads and direct appeals take aim at young people, Latinos and others without insurance coverage.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously ordered an audit Tuesday of how the public health department oversees nursing homes.
The overhaul mandated maternity coverage, but some private insurance plans don't include services.
Selling Affordable Care Act insurance is going well in Connecticut, so the state is offering "Exchange In A Box" services to other states that are still stumbling.
Several groups dedicated to helping seniors stay in their homes provide the service for members who may need a record of the doctor's office visits.
Employees in some Texas practices spend hours on hold trying to verify that patients have new insurance.
KHN's consumer columnist responds to questions about whether doctors can request to keep a patient's credit card on file, if a woman can sign up for insurance after becoming pregnant and whether an insurer can keep a young man off his parent's policy.
Shifting Medicaid enrollees into private plans could mean less money for clinics treating the poor.
A new Stanford University study shows that patients with critical injuries are less likely to be transferred to trauma centers if they have insurance.
Making health care prices available to the public is difficult and expensive, and Colorado and several other states are in jeopardy of losing funding for their efforts unless Congress intervenes.
Plan seeks to close gaps for more than 30,000 kids in the state's child welfare system.
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.
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