While the nation grapples with soaring prices of drugs, dozens of cities, counties and school districts across the country have quietly found a solution they say protects their budgets and saves workers money.
Although people over age 52 still account for the largest share of chronic hepatitis C cases, the highest number of new infections occurs among people in their 20s.
This article first appeared December 07, 2017 on ...
The perverse incentives of the health care payment system have long made it far more lucrative to treat severe, dangerous asthma attacks than to prevent them.
This article first appeared December 06, 2017 on Kaiser...
One proposal calls for hospitals to guarantee their work. If patients experience certain avoidable complications up to 90 days after surgery, then they they don't have to pay.
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Health plans, medical practices, and some Medicaid programs increasingly offer financial incentives to motivate Medicaid patients to engage in more preventive care and make healthier lifestyle choices.
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State lawmakers passed sweeping changes in the 1990s that consigned association health plans to near extinction. The Trump administration aims now to revive them.
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The violations were 'widespread, systemic in nature,' and they posed a 'serious threat to members' health and safety,' according to an internal report.
This article first appeared December 01, 2017 on Kaiser Health...
The trend of converting hospitals to new uses has accelerated as real estate values have soared in many U.S. cities. Demand for inpatient beds, meanwhile, has declined.
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