Cate Douglass

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation analyzed the impact of gaining health insurance through the Affordable Care Act for low-income families.

In a national study that included 9 million Americans, researchers found that the hospital a patient experiencing post-surgical complications returns to for readmission has an impact on the quality of care the patient receives.

A new policy emerged from the annual meeting of the American Medical Association that calls for increased access to and coverage of integrated medical and behavioral healthcare services for patients.

State policies have had little impact on closing the margin between supply and demand for organ donations, according to a study published this month in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The Center for Health Policy at Brookings and the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics came together for a half-day forum that concentrated on examining and studying the future of the Medicare program. In a 5-part working paper series, healthcare stakeholders examined trends, asked questions, and formulated proposals that would prepare the Medicare program for this incoming class of seniors.

As health costs continue to climb, consumers are increasingly finding their care treatments abroad at nearly half the price under growing support from insurance agencies.

The Obama administration and state insurance commissioners are developing new standards to oversee narrow networks as consumers begin to express concerns of limited physician choice and unexpected out-of-network costs.

With just two weeks under her belt, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced a series of changes that will be made to the federal health insurance marketplace following the enrollment and technological problems that ensued the launch of healthcare.gov earlier this year.

As the bill for providing healthcare in the United States continues to grow, hospitals are finding that many of their expenses can be chalked up to patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart failure taking avoidable trips to the emergency room (ER).

Healthcare stakeholders suggest that the key to success for any accountable care organization (ACO) is its mix of data analytics and patient accountability.

With specialty pharmaceuticals carrying extremely high-and rising-costs, nonadherence and discontinuation of therapy is becoming even more commonplace. The value-based insurance design (V-BID) model, so termed by A. Mark Fendrick, MD, Dean Smith, PhD, and Michael Chernew, MD, promotes personalized patient care by easing access to specialty medications while reducing the number of prescribed treatments of lesser value as a replacement.