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The Obama administration released the final rules Friday for 1996 and 2008 laws that expanded the kinds of mental health and substance abuse care insurers must cover. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and CQ HealthBeat's Rebecca Adams discuss.
Not a single person is enrolled yet in Oregon, where 7,300 applications have been filed, all on paper.
Health officials are counting on physicians to help educate patients about new insurance options under the health law. But like everyone else, doctors have differing opinions about Obamacare.
A study finds missing and inadequately reported information about adverse events.
What accounts for the different experiences of the state and federally managed exchanges? Why are the exchanges that the federal government runs so bug-ridden, subjecting users to long delays and possibly even more serious problems?
Fires, floods, and a government shutdown have plagued the town at the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. With roads still closed, medical staff commutes via helicopter to Estes Park Medical Center.
Cigna's partnership with MyFitnessPal is part of a trend, as insurers pair up with online weight-loss and wellness platforms to try to encourage healthy behavior.
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Tests offered by for-profit companies are mostly non-invasive and fairly affordable. But some of them are not recommended by national organizations because they can lead to further testing that does more harm than good.
A subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which built the federal data hub, will oversee the fixes.
Mom-and-Pop shops give way to large group practices that often accept discounted rates from insurers.
Medicaid patients can see different kinds of doctors in one visit, and the hope is it will provide better patient care, eventually at less cost to the state.
Many physicians and hospitals have been unable to determine which health plans offered in the health law's insurance marketplace include them in their provider networks.
No one can tally the full cost of caring for veterans with life-lasting wounds, but the financial price -- immeasurable compared to the emotional toll on vets and their families -- will increase as they age.
Harvard researchers find no difference in CEO compensation between hospitals that rate well in providing good care and those that do poorly.
A cottage industry of nonprofits and companies offer grades and rankings of hospitals. But they often measure different things.
Most of these patients have multiple chronic illnesses and all too often they wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system.
Insurance companies confirm a small number of successful signups through the federal website.
A coalition of the city's health department, county clinics and groups like the Urban League and Enroll America is trying to get the word out to Houston's 800,000 uninsured residents about the Affordable Care Act's insurance marketplaces, which will open Oct. 1.
Estes Park Medical Center escaped the flood damage that hit most of the area. But two roads leading to the town known as the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park are impassable. One snowstorm could close the remaining road and ground helicopters, leaving the hospital and its patients stranded.
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