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Federal officials note that minorities and low-income Americans continue to have less access to health care even as the country makes improvements in life expectancy and lowering death rates related to several conditions.
Health centers fear they won't be able to expand fast enough to meet the growing demand from the current uninsured and the influx of people to Medicaid in 2014.
The prospects for this voluntary long-term care insurance program appear increasingly complicated.
Jackie Judd talks with KHN's Julie Appleby about recommendations an Institute of Medicine panel will make to help the Department of Health and Human Services determine just what "essential benefits" insurers will have to cover in health law-mandated marketplaces.
Jackie Judd talks with KHN's Julie Appleby about recommendations an Institute of Medicine panel will make to help the Department of Health and Human Services determine just what "essential benefits" insurers will have to cover in health law-mandated marketplaces.
The Methodist Le Bonheur system and about 400 churches work together to make sure church members have social support when they go into the hospital and when they come out.
Hospital Corporation of America receives hundreds of millions of dollars in supplemental Medicaid money to help cover the poor and uninsured, but Texas officials suggest HCA may be benefiting the most.
The Supreme Court starts its new term Monday. Among the issues slated to be decided are if doctors, hospitals and patients can challenge state-enacted reductions in Medicaid payments.
The new system will move many state residents into a publicly financed insurance program and pay hospitals and doctors a set fee to care for patients.
Cuts in Medicaid lead list of threats to the growth and profitability of children's hospitals.
Critics say generous compensation of CEOs raises questions about the tax-exempt status of nonprofit hospitals.
Details on the financial growth of children's hospitals over the last decade.
2009 pay packages for the CEOs of the top 25 children's hospitals.
An annual survey has found that the average cost of a family health insurance plan rose 9 percent this year - triple the growth rate seen in 2010. KHN's Julie Appleby filed this story.
These pediatricians say they are worried about other patients in the waiting room, some of them too young to be immunized or with health problems that compromise their immune systems.
Florida Regulators Twice Turned Down Nemours Foundation's Request For New Children's Hospital In Orlando, where there were already two other children's hospitals.
Just a few years ago, Denver had one aging children's hospital, but today there are two new ones
Healthy profits and assets fuel billions in spending by Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth hospitals.
Nationally, there is one bed for every 2,500 children, but Ohio has one for every 1,400 kids.
Children's hospitals are a growing business in Pennsylvania, with two large ones in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a third costing $207 million under construction near Harrisburg.
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