Jeff Lagasse
Proposed surprise medical bill legislation has coincided with a significant number of insurance contract terminations.
Patients rate their satisfaction just as highly if their doctor is white or African-American, man or woman.
Microscopic changes in the transmission rate trigger macroscopic jumps in the expected epidemic size, research found.
Text messaging may be helpful for reinforcing certain health behaviors, such as smoking cessation during pregnancy.
China is the world's largest supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and the outbreak could be throwing a wrench into global API distribution.
Such physicians also can be used to fill in when healthcare facilities experience turnover on their medical staffs.
In total, 245 individual insurance carriers took part in federal and state exchanges during the 2019-2020 plan year, offering consumers more choice.
Care staff is often required to shift time and resources away from other patients to treat those with a life-threatening need for dialysis treatment.
The proposed rule promotes changes such as incorporating outpatient hip and knee replacements into the episode of care definition.
In the U.S., recruiting internationally educated nurses is addressing the ongoing nursing shortages.