Kaiser Health News

States that expand get billions of additional federal dollars, but many Republican lawmakers are loathe to say yes to the Obama administration.

The L.A. County program allows for a Web-based conversation between primary care doctors and specialists that can include the exchange of medical records and photographs.

When hospitals send invoices with charges that seem to bear no relationship to their costs, the Pennsylvania firm tells its clients (generally medium-sized employers) just say no.

About 186,000 people in Louisiana signed up for health insurance under the law and almost all of them got help from the federal government to pay their premiums.

All around the country, the health care industry is building up to take care of an expected influx of cancer patients.

As technology leads to better care, it could also lead to lower costs.

Thirty-six percent of ophthalmologists ordered pre-operative tests for more than 75 percent of their patients, according to the study, which was published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sylvia Burwell tells Rick Scott that Florida's request for federal funding "falls short of the key principles HHS will use in considering proposals regarding uncompensated care pool programs."

Lakewood Hospital, like others, has fewer patients and they aren't staying as long -- which can cut into revenues.

Changes in death rates of people on Medicare were no different than those for people in similar places where no hospital had closed.