Kaiser Health News
Within a year, HCCI expects to let members of UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Assurant and Humana track spending on a companion site and check how switching caregivers could lower their out-of-pocket costs.
Some Kaiser patients still have to wait weeks or even months to see a therapist or psychiatrist, which violates state laws intended to ensure timely access to mental health treatment.
Patients' assessments of the quality of the clinical care they received did not improve any more than they did for patients treated in older facilities.
Department of Health and Human Services says plans lacking substantial coverage of hospital and physician services don't qualify as "minimum value" coverage.
Slow response to "balance billing" problem stinging for consumers blindsided by out-of-network charges.
Move follows recent complaints that some highly rated nursing homes have numerous problems and face fines and other enforcement actions.
The reason costs add up for these procedures could have more to do with doctors than patients, JAMA report finds.
The Affordable Care Act is too complicated, according to a panel at the National Health Policy Conference.
Lack of awareness of new coverage options and financial assistance appear to be a major barrier.
State spent just 3 cents per person on diabetes prevention in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, compared to New York's 42 cents per person in state and federal money that year.