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The strategy has been used mostly in Indiana, where many county-owned hospitals purchased or leased nursing homes to take advantage of a wrinkle in Medicaid payment rules and augment federal reimbursements.
Long commutes and scarcity of providers make it hard for patients who need counseling or psychiatric care.
The costs of using a new class of cancer treatments include far more than the drug鈥檚 sticker price.
After regulators questioned Anthem鈥檚 forecast for medical costs, the company agreed to reduce rate hikes on its individual and small-business health plans next year, saving customers an estimated $114 million.
A new link creates two-way access to the state registry that documents the type of medical care sick and frail patients want 鈥 or refuse.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure, which takes effect next year and will require drug companies to publicly justify big price increases.
Eight teaching centers in California aim to train and retain doctors in medically underserved areas such as California鈥檚 Central Valley. They are among 57 such institutions across the country that may soon receive a boost in funding from Congress.
"If it gets signed by this governor, it's going to send shock waves throughout the country,鈥 one legislator says. Pharma has spent $16.8 million lobbying against this bill and other drug laws in California.
Hospitals view adding trauma care as a potential profit tool, but experts say having more centers does not necessarily improve the system鈥檚 ability to respond to a mass casualty event.
The inspector general at Health and Human Services says defective pacemakers or defibrillators had to be replaced from 2005 through 2014, costing Medicare $1.5 billion.
Tom Price resigned from running the Department of Health and Human Services after a series of news stories detailing how he tallied more than $400,000 in private plane travel paid for by taxpayers.听
Refugee women from conservative Muslim countries can be shocked by some U.S. medical conventions 鈥 like trusting a male doctor to care for them.
At a political rally in March, President Donald Trump said drug prices are 鈥渙utrageous鈥 and blamed campaign contributions. Drugmakers funneled nearly $280,000 to Congress the very next day.
Some teens and young adults are spending weeks or even months in retrofitted emergency rooms 鈥 even in mesh-covered tents 鈥 until specialized care can be found. 鈥業t鈥檚 a huge problem,鈥 one doctor says.
The insurer says hospital-based imaging services are too expensive and the independent facilities provide high-quality care.
Any momentum to address prescription drug costs has been lost amid rancorous debates over replacing Obamacare and stalled by roadblocks erected via lobbying and industry cash.
Agency says a removable cap will lower the risk of antibiotic resistant infections but some experts see it as a modest step in curbing the sort of deadly outbreaks that occurred a few years ago.
The company鈥檚 drug spending prediction, far above other insurers in the individual market, has experts scratching their heads. Anthem cites market volatility.
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A shift in dental guidelines encourages first dental visits for infants as young as 6 months, or when the first baby teeth emerge. That makes some dentists uncomfortable.
Despite a lack of medical training, relatives increasingly are assigned complex, risky medical tasks at home, such as maintaining catheters. If done incorrectly, blood clots, infections, even death can result.
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