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The Partnership for Health in Aging released a set of 23 skills that all health care professionals - doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers and others - should have by the time they receive their degrees.
People who are dying currently can't get Medicare to pay for hospice care if they continue aggressive curative treatment. But the new health overhaul law could lead to a major change in olicy that allows both hospice and curative care.
Public health officials and a host of prevention and wellness groups have sharply different ideas about how to spend a big pot of new federal prevention money
For the third time this year, Congress has just days to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in pay to doctors who treat seniors and others on the Medicare program. And no one seems to be able to figure out how to solve the problem in anything except a stopgap way.
Too many nonprofit hospitals fail to adequately publicize their charity-care programs, two advocacy groups say in a survey report released today.
Medical homes - where primary care doctors are held responsible for coordinating care for individual patients
Specialists make a lot more than doctors who are generalists, so-called primary care doctors. But the size of the gap might surprise you: Try more than $100,000 a year.
At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, students get hands-on lessons about the impact of treatment costs on patients by volunteering Saturdays at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program, a student-run free clinic for uninsured residents of a low-income neighborhood nearby.
Doctors in training have traditionally been insulated from details about the cost of tests and treatments they prescribe. But concerns about rising health costs are slowly changing that.
Electronic medical records could help curb health costs by providing doctors with details on the price of tests and drugs, health policy experts say.
Gaps in insurance policies make oral drugs too pricey for some cancer patients.
There is a hidden cost how we fund health insurance in the U.S.: insurers have more information about health care than the taxpayers that help fund it. The system's opacity gives insurers the upper hand in debates over government payment rates.
Doctors who accept speaking fees, five-star meals and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names -- and the value of the gifts they accept -- revealed on the Web.
Former physical education teacher Andrew Jones, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, spent five years in nursing homes in Georgia and Connecticut. The 56-year-old was able to move out of the nursing home system in 2009 with the help of a federally-funded state program, known as "Money Follows the Person."
An analysis of lung cancer screening finds that 21 to 33 percent of the suspicious nodules found by CT scans are false alarms, resulting in extra scans and biopsies, which cost an average of an extra $1,100.
Medicaid patients in traditional fee-for-service care get some services at two to three times the frequency of those who are in managed care, a preliminary state report suggests. What it doesn't say: Is that good or bad?
The White House released a copy of the memo sent by President Barack Obama to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on hospital visitors' rights, including those for same-sex partners of patients.
Folks who say, "When I get that sick, unplug me, don't let me suffer" have never learned how the end of life can be done better.
Without big budgets, developing nations have to be creative and flexible when it comes to health care. As a result, some interesting new technologies and techniques have emerged that Westernized countries have adopted.
A study about the Veterans Administration takes a step towards putting a dollar value on the savings a health care system can get from electronic medical records.
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