Population Health

Social determinants, including where a person was born, grew up, lives, works and ages, determine 80 percent of health outcomes, Deloitte said.

Adverse changes, such as losing a job, living conditions and socialization are big determinants of health, expert says.

In most cases, PCMHs resulted in cost reduction, quality improvement and utilization, although in some areas results were mixed.

With the protections of ACA, doctors screened for diseases feeling confident it wouldn't affect insurability. Now, many are concerned it will.

Medicaid pays for about two-thirds of 1.4 million elderly in nursing homes; it covers 20 percent of Americans, 40 percent of elderly poor adults.

Health law experts caution coverage gap fix for these very low earners would likely be largely undercut by two other changes in the bill.

The co-signers included Children's Hospital Colorado President and CEO Jena Hausmann, Colorado State House Majority Leader KC Becker.

If there's one point a recent session at America's Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo 2017 brought home, it's that if providers and payers are going to manage their members as a population, they need to start by knowing them individually.

U.S. minorities tend to receive fewer medical services considered effective like flu shots, aspirin following heart attack, study author says.

Some oppose the law; many others, however, believe patients should have access to aid-in-dying but don't want to be involved themselves.