Kaiser Health News

Under the rules, if patients don't know in advance that a doctor is out of network or if they have no choice, they won't be responsible for the bill. Instead, it's up to the insurer and provider to reach a payment deal through an independent resolution process.

For the fourth year in a row, spending on diabetes drugs in 2014 was higher on a per member per year basis than it was for any other class of traditional drug.

Many doctors who initiate the discussions often do so on their own dime.

The Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy research group, called the offices of 96 dentists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists and gastroenterologists across the state last month, asking for the price of five basic services.

Employers say the administration is unfairly changing the rules that determine how those limits are applied, and they're worried it will cost them more.

It's actually a much easier promise to make than to fulfill, but that's not slowing down the Republican candidates for president.

Clinics partner with a local hospital, a federally qualified health center and other community-based health organizations to reach a down-on-their-luck population sometimes struggling for basic survival.

Iowa's governor, Republican Terry Branstad, is moving full speed ahead with a plan to put private companies in charge of managing Medicaid's services.

Unless hospitals and other health care facilities begin cooperatively fighting the country's most aggressive bacterial-resistant germs, infection rates could increase as much as 10 percent over the next five years, hitting about 340,000 people annually, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released this week.

System adapts car maker's production system for healthcare, changing longstanding practices such as how to store equipment, schedule surgeries and discharge patients.