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As the Florida county negotiates health insurance changes with labor unions, it isn't allowed to know the prices its own insurance plan administrator negotiates with providers, even though it's self-insured and the claims are paid with taxpayer dollars.
Although efforts by the federal and state governments are forcing insurers to cover costly treatments, patients who turn 21 "fall off a cliff."
Price transparency efforts in the Granite State help consumers and employers ask smarter questions.
After Vidant Pungo Hospital was shuttered this summer, physicians and patients in this rural North Carolina town fear for their future.
Comprehensive report on end-of-life care says both medicine and society need to change "to make those final days better."
Problems with a government calculator that companies use to prove that their insurance meets health law standards could allow substandard policies, consumer advocates say.
Among the most significant difference is that patient with their own insurance don't face the same danger of losing nursing home coverage.
The number of osteopathic doctors is increasing sharply, helping to meet the demand for primary care.
There's nothing like an ambulance when you really need one, but they're expensive, and a lot of people who call an ambulance could be better served with a different, cheaper kind of care.
In one Olympic Peninsula community, a clinic turns away 250 callers a week.
Call center wait times climb even as the application backlog mounts and the state reports the single largest monthly drop in Medicaid enrollment in June.
Many North Carolina dentists refuse to treat Medicaid patients because of the low reimbursements, while the federal health law defines children's dental insurance as an essential benefit" but doesn't require parents to buy it.
The Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from charging more for out-of-network emergency care, but your bill could be higher if you're admitted to the hospital.
Special online markets weren't widely available in Obamacare's first year.
Freestanding emergency departments have been proposed in Georgia as a potential solution for struggling rural hospitals.
The Cures Acceleration Network's mission is to fund research that can be speedily transformed into treatments and to streamline the drug-approval process.
Fear keeps many patients and doctors from talking to each other about end-of-life care. One company, hired by insurers, has made a rather unusual business fostering those conversations.
A possible resolution of a lawsuit against Florida health and child-welfare officials could mean that physicians will receive what they consider to be adequate compensation.
Here's what you need to know if your records are stored electronically (and they probably are).
As the line between insurance companies and health care providers blurs, these onetime allies are venturing into each other's business and becoming competitors.
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