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The storefront doctor's offices serve a vast number of uninsured Latino residents, in a kind of parallel, cash-only health system. But officials have little information on the quality of health care the clinicas provide, and whether they might be able to help fill persistent and profound gaps in Los Angeles' strained safety net.
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is testing how using technology to monitor seniors' health can save money on medical costs and help seniors feel secure enough to "age in place."
Hospitals complain they are bearing the brunt of sustaining payment levels for doctors but the changes in Medicare were a long time coming.
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Data companies are poised to profit from the expansion of Medicaid.
Under a program set up by the health law, payments to 1,557 hospitals will be increased, while 1,427 will drop.
Payments to hospitals are adjusted to reflect how they follow standards of care and patients' ratings of their experiences.
This chart shows the average effect by state of the value-based purchasing program on hospitals' Medicare reimbursements per hospital stay for the federal spending year that runs from last October through September 2013.
Gerontologist Peggye Dilworth-Anderson discusses why we need to rethink what we perceive of as "normal" aging.
Consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a reader question about handling an out-of-network bill from a provider the patient didn't choose.
Many states are trying to loosen decades-old licensing restrictions, known as "scope of practice laws," that prevent nurse practitioners from playing the lead role in providing basic health services.
An effort in California to move Medicaid patients into managed care has national significance as federal officials roll out a similar but larger program for as many as 2 million people who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare.
Two years and $8.4 billion into the government's effort to get doctors to take their practices digital, some unintended consequences are starting to emerge. One is a lot of unhappy doctors.
Child life specialist Liz Anderson of Children's National Medical Center explains how she uses play to help 2-year-old Jade Tukan, a cancer patient, understand her medical care.
Child life specialists use play to help seriously ill children understand what happens in the hospital.
Free scales, diet tips and home visits from nurses all aim to curtail readmissions.
The latest medical breakthrough is the hospital room itself.
Displaced patients and doctors are a challenge for some nearby hospitals and an opportunity for others, as the city's safety net tries to deal with the disruption.
The law requires everyone, no matter where they were born, to prove citizenship or legal residency to renew a license. But with too few staff to process the extra paperwork, hundreds of licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are expiring.
Urgent care clinics are part of a growth strategy for some hospital chains. But some analysts wonder if hospitals will be able to provide good customer service at the clinics.
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