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Hospitals say they are promoting needed services, such as cancer screenings and cholesterol tests, but they often use the data to target patients with private health insurance, which typically pay higher rates than government coverage.
The breast-cancer charity is pulling about $700,000 in breast cancer screening and service grants from Planned Parenthood.
Alzheimer's expert Dr. Rachelle Doody writes that the recently released draft framework for a national Alzheimer's plan is somewhat vague even as it contains excellent goals and begins to focus the minds and resources of key stakeholders on these issues.
Robert Egge, the Alzheimers Association vice president of public policy, offers his take on why the current push to develop a national plan to combat Alzheimer's represents a historic opportunity to strengthen the federal government's efforts to overcome this disease.
Kaiser Health News talked to two experts about current efforts to craft a national plan to overcome Alzheimer's disease.
Thousands die in hospitals because of mistakes - often simple oversights - made by doctors and nurses. Here's how hospitals can improve patient safety.
Cuts in government payments for patient care and less construction of new nursing homes are taking a toll, and as baby boomers start to retire in great numbers, the timing couldn't be worse.
The rewards range from free parking and gift-shop discounts to wellness seminars and even social mixers.
Unaffordable new cancer drugs, even when they're covered by insurance, are being rationed by price as patients, doctors and hospital officials struggle with how to pay for the spectacular rise in the cost of cancer care.
Catholic Healthcare West today ends its governing board's religious affiliation to ease concerns from possible new partners. Some of its hospitals will remain Catholic.
Details about the programs that four of the newly named "innovation advisors" plan to pursue.
Diagnosing sleep apnea, which has been shown to increase the risk of serious illnesses, is a big business. Critics worry, though, that sleep tests are overprescribed at great cost to the health system.
Employers, insurers and hospitals are banding together in several areas of the country to tackle cost and quality issues.
Some companies are also penalizing employees who don't give up cigarettes by hitting them with higher health insurance premiums.
Hospitals are usually eager to embrace the latest medical technology, but the road to deploying tablet computers has been bumpy.
A growing number of hospitals in Massachusetts are saying no to elective inductions and C-sections before 39 weeks. The change is happening quietly and some new mothers don't like it.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Web Reporter Jessica Marcy says she'll be examining the different kinds of health care workers -- growing in numbers -- looking to give more people more care.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Jordan Rau says he'll be keeping an eye on how Medicare proposes to change how it pays hospitals after changes in the health law.
The examination found that hospitals with the largest share of poor patients were 2.7 times as likely to have high readmission rates.
Federal officials are seeking to make sure patients get the care they need after discharge. But the new policy is likely to disproportionately affect hospitals that treat the most low-income patients, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis.
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