Kaiser Health News
Healthcare.gov enrolled 1.9 million new customers for health insurance between Nov. 15 and Dec. 18. At the same time, another 4.5 million existing policyholders either re-enrolled or were automatically renewed.
In its toughest crackdown yet on medical errors, the federal government is cutting payments to 721 hospitals for having high rates of infections and other patient injuries.
Researchers and advocates worry the NIH may use that money for research not related to children's health.
More than 1 million people selected a health plan during the fourth week of the health law's open enrollment and nearly 2.5 million have done so since it began Nov. 15, federal officials said Tuesday.
Independent Bill Walker, who won election last month in a governor's race so tight the results weren't known a week after the voting was over, campaigned on the promise that he'd expand Medicaid as one of his first orders of business.
Dr. Oliver Korshin, a 71-year-old ophthalmologist in Anchorage, is not happy about the federal government's plan to have all physicians use electronic medical records or face a Medicare penalty.
A California health care workers' union is collecting signatures to get two measures onto the ballot that it says would lower health care costs, but hospitals disagree.
Hospital administrators in Washington, D.C., are furiously lobbying against a bill modeled on a California law that would require them to maintain a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio at all times.
New research finds that many seniors who switch from their HMO-style Medicare Advantage plan to traditional Medicare have higher levels of significant health problems, fueling concerns that the private plans cater to more profitable, healthy beneficiaries but don't provide the most attractive care for the very ill.
The Leapfrog Group is out with its second round of hospital safety ratings, and what a difference a few months has made.