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It took his parents 86 phone calls and six months to get their newborn enrolled in a Pennsylvania program for children.
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It took his parents 86 phone calls and six months to get their newborn enrolled in a Pennsylvania program for children.
After 20 years as a busy ER doctor, Linda Smith now finds satisfaction guiding patients through treatment for life-threatening illnesses.
The New York legislature passed a bill that would make the state the first in the nation requiring doctors to offer the hepatitis C test to anyone born between 1945 and 1965.
Recommended interventions for seniors include prescription drugs, problem-solving therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and interpersonal therapy.
The study is examining whether offering support for older adults with chronic illnesses, pain and cognitive problems can stave off the serious mental health issues.
For years, seniors were told that they had to show improvement to keep getting skilled care but a lawsuit has changed that standard.
Hospitals have gone from curing disease to curing meats to boost reviews and qualify for larger Medicare payments.
Some lawmakers and children's advocates say that without changes, certain health law provisions designed to expand children's dental coverage may not work as intended.
Health apps are turning smartphones and tablets into exercise aides, blood pressure monitors and devices that transmit an EKG. But the explosion of apps is way ahead of tests to determine which ones work.
Hospitals and clinics are slowly replacing paper files with electronic health records, but information often isn't easily shared. Smartphones may be one way consumers can bridge the electronic gap.
As the country tries to rein in skyrocketing health costs, hospital leaders are still rewarded for expansion and profits. A KHN investigation, in collaboration with ABC News, looks at employment contracts and incentive pay at nonprofit hospital systems.
Some hospitals view bonuses for CEOs as a way to improve performance, but the leaders of some top hospitals believe all bonuses may be a mistake.
Despite concerns over the rising cost of medical care, hospitals -- even nonprofit ones -- give their CEOs large bonuses, and it's often hard to know just why they're earning them.
How did Kaiser Health News choose and compile the data on hospital CEO bonus pay? Here's a list of questions and answers.
An important feature of the health law designed to bring down the rate of patient readmissions is backfiring on safety-net hospitals, says a report by a congressional advisory agency.
A discussion on how to improve the British system turned up buzzwords reminiscent of the U.S. health reform debate: integrated health care, patient-centered services, cutting costs.
Dr. Zubin Damania, a.k.a. ZDoggMD, takes to YouTube to parody and pillory modern medicine. On his serious side, he's founding a new kind of clinic to try to change primary care.
The White House is trying to spur innovation by releasing more of its data from Medicare, Medicaid and other sources. But technology business leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. this week said the federal government could be a lot more forthcoming with information.
Created by the health law to boost competition among insurers, co-ops in 24 states emphasize primary care and treating consumers as partners, but can they compete with the big guys?
Physicians' and patients' thoughts on the prostate cancer screening test are changing, with many taking a more cautious approach to the test and what it might mean.
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