Kaiser Health News
Backers of Montana's seven-month-old Medicaid expansion say they're pleased with the first set of financial data released this week.
Government spending on "compounded" drugs that are handmade by retail pharmacists has skyrocketed, drawing the attention of federal investigators who are raising fraud and overbilling concerns.
A recent study examined this pattern and found the prescriptions are used and renewed more often than you might imagine.
New failures are piling up among the member-run health insurance co-ops carrying out one of the Affordable Care Act's most idealistic goals, leaving just seven remaining when the health law's fourth enrollment season starts in the fall.
Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.
California voters will be asked to weigh in this November on a hospital financing measure called Proposition 52 that is so politically and financially complicated that they might be tempted to avoid it altogether.
The deficit of properly trained physicians is expected to get worse. By 2030, one in five Americans will be eligible for Medicare, the government health insurance for those 65 and older.
The number of travel-related cases is growing, and public health officials predict it is only a matter of time until the first locally transmitted case is confirmed. They are scrambling to prepare strategies to combat Zika's spread. But on Capitol Hill, efforts to approve emergency funding to support all of these initiatives are being held up by partisan disputes.
Many babies born to mothers who are covered by Medicaid are automatically eligible for that coverage during the first year of their lives. In a handful of states, the same is true for babies born to women covered by the Children's Health Insurance Program. Yet, this smart approach is routinely undermined by another federal policy that requires babies' eligibility be reevaluated on their first birthday. Although they're likely still eligible for coverage, many of these toddlers fall through the cracks.
Provider directories for some health plans sold through Covered California and in the private market are so inaccurate that they create an "awful" situation for consumers trying to find doctors, according to the lead author of a new study published in the journal Health Affairs.