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Almost 1 million New York City residents are still uninsured. Rather than go to emergency rooms or city hospitals, some of them get free care from medical school students.
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Almost 1 million New York City residents are still uninsured. Rather than go to emergency rooms or city hospitals, some of them get free care from medical school students.
The city is harnessing telemedicine to cut down on the overwhelming number of residents seeking primary care help by calling 911.
Some of the obvious problems, such as separate deductibles for mental health care, have been eliminated. But advocates are concerned about more subtle insurance processes, such as reviews of medical necessity, that could be hampering coverage.
California is one of the few states that charge the estates of deceased Medicaid beneficiaries for the cost of their health coverage. A bill is moving through the state legislature to stop the practice.
Under a new process set out by the health law, the FDA approved the first so-called biosimilar drug for sale in the U.S. It鈥檚 a copy of the cancer medicine Neupogen that will be sold under the brand name Zarxio.
In a lawsuit over a rape case involving three basketball players, the university accessed a student鈥檚 mental health records detailing treatment she received at the campus clinic.
A special 鈥渄aycare at night鈥 program in the Bronx cares for Alzheimer鈥檚 patients whose internal clocks mistake night for day.
Most industries share complicated digital files to do business, but health care still leans hard on paper printouts and fax machines. Despite a $30 billion taxpayer investment in electronic health records since 2009, most of those systems are unable to talk to each other.
A study at Baltimore鈥檚 Johns Hopkins finds that patients in older buildings rate their care about the same as those in a sleek new hospital tower.
Some hospital revenue is now going to be tied to how happy you - the patient - are when you stay there. But not all hospitals are going to be capable of winning the Medicare sweepstakes.
Despite an uneasy relationship with the health law, insurance brokers are touting their expertise and helping Texans sign up for Affordable Care Act insurance.
With Affordable Care Act open enrollment ending Feb. 15, taxpayers could find themselves shut out of health insurance 鈥 and saddled with big fines 鈥 if they don鈥檛 do their taxes early this year.
Obamacare provided billions in seed money to help establish insurance companies called co-ops. One of the biggest has now gone under, and its state overseer is telling clients to switch carriers.
Getting basic health care to rural areas has always been difficult, and delivering specialized care is even harder. One doctor is raising money to get palliative care to patients in rural California.
After sitting out the first full year of Obamacare鈥檚 Medicaid expansion, lawmakers in Montana have moved on to arguing -- not about whether -- but about how much federal cash to pull down.
Health insurance doesn't pay for housing, but sometimes that is what a patient needs most. A Medicaid experiment, called Money Follows The Person, helps some elderly and disabled people move out of institutions into their own homes.
Evidence shows hospice care can extend life and save money, but only if patients and doctors dare ask for the help. One New Yorker said hospice gave her back a normal life 鈥 at peace, pain subdued.
Gov. Bill Walker, an Independent, campaigned on Medicaid expansion and now he has to pitch it to a reluctant Republican legislature.
While Americans debate whether we should quarantine people who might have Ebola but clearly aren't contagious, others wander among us who are infected with tuberculosis 鈥 another disease that's highly communicable in some forms.
Leaburn Alexander works two jobs and has a monster commute. There鈥檚 no wiggle room in his budget to pay a health insurance premium 鈥 and no time even to meet with an enrollment counselor.
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