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A new coalition of insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and provider and consumer advocacy groups launched an initiative to make more information available to consumers about the actual costs of health services.
The American Medical Association is funding experiments at universities around the country to try to change how we train physicians.
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.
Lindberg retired this month after 30 years at the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine where he worked to put research online so that doctors could have the latest medical advancements at their fingertips, and patients could become increasingly engaged in their own care.
Primary care providers are teaming up with insurers, hospitals and others to improve patients鈥 health by coordinating their care and, the theory goes, curbing out-of-control health care costs.
While most Americans believe it is important to have a physical every year, the evidence suggests otherwise.
More than 300 large medical groups are being penalized because they did not score well on quality measures or didn鈥檛 report their efforts to the government. The incentives will soon expand to all doctors who treat Medicare patients.
The breach at the Washington state-based health insurer continues to reverberate as officials answer questions about what happened.
HHS says the improvement reflects what is happening to hospitals in states that increased the number of low-income people eligible for the health care program.
Redesigning and replacing hospital gowns is one example of efforts by hospitals and health systems to enhance the patient experience.
In a California lawsuit seeking to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications at patients鈥 request, two plaintiffs are physicians with serious illnesses. Both want the option of choosing to end their lives.
UnitedHealthcare is no longer routinely paying for out-of-network emergency room physicians and other specialists even when they work for hospitals in the insurer鈥檚 network.
Nurses who are men make nearly $7,700 a year more than female nurses in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 more annually in hospitals, a study finds.
A court ruling about Actavis鈥檚 strategy to switch consumers from its top-selling dementia drug, which will lose patent protection this summer, to a newer, patent-protected drug, may define how far drugmakers can go to protect profits from generic rivals.
The unheralded move by California tax authorities last August may leave the insurer on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in taxes dating back to 2013. Blue Shield of California is protesting the action.
For people in Mount Vernon, Texas, the loss of their hospital means longer trips for treatment and uncertainty when a medical crisis hits.
Shared decision making programs encourage doctors and patients to work together in making tough choices about care at UC San Francisco.
At UC San Francisco and other hospitals and clinics around the nation, 鈥渟hared decision making鈥 programs encourage doctors and patients to work together in making tough choices about care.聽
GOP lawmakers eager to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood are weighing changes to a cancer screening program for poor women. But private clinics unaffiliated with Planned Parenthood say they'd take a hit, too.
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