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In this video, KHN reporter Jenny Gold interviews Dr. Herbert Smitherman about the Voices of Detroit Initiative that tracked 33,000 uninsured people and helped get more than half of them into coordinated care systems.
Dr. Herbert Smitherman talks about the Voices of Detroit Initiative that tracked 33,000 uninsured people and helped get more than half of them into coordinated care systems.
Dr. Herbert Smitherman talks about the Voices of Detroit Initiative that tracked 33,000 uninsured people and helped get more than half of them into coordinated care systems.
Located in one of the nation's most medically underserved areas, St. John's Well Child and Family Center is bracing for GOP-backed Medicaid cuts that the facility's director says would be disastrous.
In a brief exchange, Sen. Rand Paul accuses Sen. Bernie Sanders of trying to put physicians into slavery by asserting that health care is a "right" for all.
Extra funding will be awarded to facilities that do better than average on quality of care and patient satisfaction.
Columnists Harold Pollack and Michael F. Cannon contribute very different opinions on the Republican proposal to fundamentally change Medicaid.
The recent policy debate surrounding the health care safety net seems predicated on the philosophy that we must sharply shrink government despite the accompanying human costs. That vision is most congenial to those who feel comfortable and safe without public help.
Dan Hawkins, senior vice president of the centers' national association, says influx of federal funding is helping them to reach out to more people.
Some private plans serving people in Medicare and Medicaid have set up health care centers to help make sure patients get needed treatments and avoid hospitalizations.
According to a new survey, emergency rooms doctors say crowding is caused by insured people who can't find a doctor to treat them.
Beginning in 2012, bad grades from unhappy patients could cause hospitals to lose out on bonuses.
Many states are trying to restrain Medicaid spending by putting more people into managed care plans, but with billions of dollars at stake, insurers and health providers are lobbying hard for their interests.
This year, seniors enrolled in Medicare no longer have to pay for more than a dozen tests and services to prevent disease thanks to the health law. Many, however, aren't lining up for mammograms or colonoscopies though free wellness checks are luring many.
Michelle Andrews, author of KHN's "Insuring Your Health" weekly feature, talks with Jackie Judd about clinics that charge a patient a monthly fee
When writing the final ACO rules, CMS has the chance to spin the dross of the current regulations into something of genuine value to providers, even if it's not quite Rumpelstiltskin-quality gold. If the feds fail, it is all of us, not just those on Medicare program, who could live unhappily ever after.
With states reducing the number of psychiatric beds, mentally ill patients often languish in hospital emergency rooms for several days, sometimes longer. At most, they get drugs but little counseling, and the environment is often harsh.
RAND Health Vice President and Director Arthur Kellermann, M.D., disputes the way his organization's research was depicted in a recent column by John Goodman about Medicaid. Kellerman notes the study in question was designed to examine health care quality, not to determine the value of different types of insurance.
A majority of Americans give the country's health system barely passing grades. Most people choose a hospital based on someone's personal experience than looking at quality ratings. Yet when it comes to surgeons, people are evenly split on whether experience or data is the best guide.
The centers, designed to help low-income and uninsured people, offer an affordable option for care, but it can also be tough to get an appointment.
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