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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.
Several large insurers in Minnesota are launching private insurance exchanges to protect themselves against competition from the public exchanges when they go online in 2014.
The federal rules, which the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday, require health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including birth control, without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or deductible.
Supporters say dissolvables could help smokers "step down" from their nicotine dependence on cigarettes. Opponents say it's not clear how consumers actually use the products and who is using them.
In advance of their first Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services meeting next week, four of the newly named innovation advisors talked with KHN's Christian Torres.
Details about the programs that four of the newly named "innovation advisors" plan to pursue.
Congress is betting more than $3 billion over the next decade that "comparative effectiveness" research can transform medical care by helping determine the best approach to a particular illness.
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.
Texas is one of the 17 states that has asked the federal government to delay the insurance rebate program. But consumers and advocates want the new law to kick in on time in 2012.
But officials say that for the first time in years premiums for people in private insurance plans rose faster than what was spent on their care, according to KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini.
KHN's Shefali S. Kulkarni interviews Dr. Anne Beal, COO of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Employers, insurers and hospitals are banding together in several areas of the country to tackle cost and quality issues.
Kansas and Oklahoma are the seventh and eighth states to get the thumbs down from the federal government on their requests to phase in new regulations that could result in health insurance rebates to consumers.
Whistleblowers allege that AseraCare improperly channeled people to gain maximum Medicare reimbursements. In a separate suit, federal attorneys say the company pressured employees to enroll patients in hospice who weren't dying.
Martha Norris, 62, depends on Napa Valley Adult Day Services in Napa, Calif. The program and others like it throughout the state have narrowly escaped elimination due to state budget cuts.
Some companies are also penalizing employees who don't give up cigarettes by hitting them with higher health insurance premiums.
The 'Insurance Capital' bucks the nationwide trend of states turning to private managed care plans.
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 Reporter Jenny Gold says she'll be watching how states cut health care in their budgets.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: KHN Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby discusses what changes could be in store for insurers.
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