Expert Panel Recommends Sweeping Changes To Doctor Training System
Overhauling financing is seen as key to reforms.
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Overhauling financing is seen as key to reforms.
What happens when hospice patients can keep getting life-extending treatment? Palliative care expert Diane Meier discusses the new program.
The powerful California Nurses Association is threatening to strike as it begins negotiations with Kaiser Permanente on a new four-year contract.
The pilot projects underway at hospitals eliminate the requirement that seniors must be admitted for three days before they qualify for nursing home coverage.
Some say the requirements will push older doctors to retire early, worsening the physician shortage.
The University of Pennsylvania recruited young people to shop for coverage on healthcare.gov to learn what gave them trouble navigating the site.
The law, effective July 15, is viewed as an innovative compromise in Kentucky, but some people involved in national scope-of-practice debates are skeptical.
As Congress and the VA look to ease long wait times by sending more patients to outside providers, Dr. Ken Kizer, a former VA undersecretary for health, discusses how such an effort could play out.
By paying primary care doctors to cut specialist and hospital revenue, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is helping to alter the medical spoils system.
In 2012, Medicare was rocked by allegations hospitals were systematically overcharging the government program by misusing electronic medical records. A study published Tuesday disputes that.
Groups file complaint with federal officials saying four Florida insurers discriminated against people with HIV in setting up pricing structure for drugs, and another analysis finds that many silver plans place medications for costly diseases in highest formulary tier.
The health law seeks to reduce health care costs by spending more money on prevention and wellness efforts.
Hospitals around the country are allowing patients to wait at home rather than endure hours in crowded emergency rooms. Warning: It's not for life-threatening cases, and you could be bumped for someone sicker.
The University of Utah improved quality and reduced costs by tracking each patient's care.
Patients in rural hospitals often have to wait days to see a psychiatrist. South Carolina is a leader in turning that around.
Dr. Al Sommer, the former dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who helped produce a new report on climate change, says changes expected this century could lead to many deaths and a strain on hospitals.
Manufacturers of the essential fluid say they won't be able to catch up with demand until next year.
Hospitals and drug makers are waging a pitched battle over the program -- known as 340B -- that requires drug manufacturers to give steep discounts to hospitals that treat a large percentage of poor patients.
The 1 percent cut in payments is the latest effort by the federal government to improve hospital care.
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