Low-income people in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states, according to a government report due out Monday amid election debates from Georgia to Utah over coverage for the needy. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office worked with the National Center for Health Statistics to analyze federal survey data from 2016.
A key part in the way the United States is changing how it pays for health care is feeling some growing pains. The grinding and stretching comes now just a few months before the government starts rewarding physicians for meeting performance standards and punishing those who don’t under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System or MIPS.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — It's a Tuesday afternoon at Lakeland Medical Center's emergency department. Physicians and nurses briskly make their way around the unit, treating patients and monitoring their conditions by computer.
Aaron Doctor, a bright and ambitious young African-American man, grew up in a black community in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, but he was 21 years old the first time he met a black doctor, a man whose wife was also a physician.
For years, the Miller family has faced an uphill battle trying to find a diagnosis for their two sons, Carson and Chase. The boys, now 5 and 6 years old, have been unable to walk, stand or speak since birth. Originally they were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but their parents felt their symptoms didn't match up, reports CBS News contributor Dr. Tara Narula.
Two hospitals in Florida are evacuating all of their roughly 330 patients due to damage from Hurricane Michael. Bay Medical Sacred Heart, which sheltered 1,500 people -- staff's families, first responders and patients -- from the storm Wednesday said Thursday that that although everyone is safe, the building was damaged and it is evacuating more than 200 patients.