Kaiser Health News
California is asking the federal government for permission to use Medicaid money to help put the most medically fragile homeless people in housing.
The company last year lost thousands of customers to the health law's online exchanges where consumers shop directly for plans and find out if they qualify for subsidies.
Family caregivers can receive grief and loss counseling for up to a year following the beneficiary's death.
Trend has driven up stock prices of the largest publicly traded travel-nurses companies.
Nearly one American in three with private health insurance got a surprise medical bill in the past two years.
While it's clear that second opinions can help individual patients make better medical decisions, there's little hard data showing that second opinions lead to better health results overall.
The Urban Institute says expansion of Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes over the poverty line was key to reducing the uninsured rate among 50- to 64-year-olds from nearly 12 to 8 percent in 2014.
The report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that even after controlling for age, race, marital status and children in the home, males in nursing out-earned females by nearly $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals.
Average enrollment in company plans was essentially unchanged between 2014 and 2015 at 74 percent of all workers.
At issue is whether the company is doing anything different from its for-profit competitors to warrant its tax break.