Kaiser Health News

Association finds 48 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, the majority in Southern states, and 283 others are in trouble.

Officials say the percentage of people without coverage has dropped by about a third since 2012: from 20.3 percent to 13.2 percent in the first quarter of 2015.

Unless Congress takes action by the end of this month, doctors who treat Medicare patients will see a 21 percent payment cut.

The agencies say they will establish a 180-day waiting period before medical debt is added to someone's credit report.

House Republicans refused to advance the bill and invoked a rule requiring a three-fifths majority of House members to vote for the bill to continue to the floor.

Mental health clinics, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals were left out of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Program, and it's cost them.

Inaccuracies in the Medicare Advantage directories may trigger penalties of up to $25,000 a day per beneficiary or bans on new enrollment and marketing.

Improving economy helps more low-income patients pay their balances in states that did not expand under Obamacare.

If the court rules against the Obama administration, those subsidies could be cut off for everyone in the three dozen states using healthcare.gov.

Department of Health and Human Services shifted millions of dollars last year from those agencies to help pay the $1.4 billion cost of running the insurance marketplaces in 37 states, according to an HHS spending document.