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These high-priced medications are often shifted to the top tiers of drug plans, so consumers dealing with cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV and other complicated diseases can end up paying thousands of dollars for their prescriptions.
In North Carolina and elsewhere, hidden costs have popped up on "fully covered" services ranging from contraception to cancer screening to annual checkups, and it's leaving a growing number of people to cover thousands of dollars out of pocket.
Under a new state law, Massachusetts insurers have to post how much tests and procedures cost at different providers in a consumer-friendly way.
An investigation by the HHS inspector general says beneficiaries getting the treatments at "critical access" hospitals pay between two and six times more than those at other hospitals.
A consumer reporter shares what she learned when getting ready to join the federal health plan for seniors.
States and the federal government aim to renew coverage for 15.3 million already signed up on exchanges and Medicaid -- and enroll about 10 million more who are currently uninsured.
Experts says a series of recent threats, including the first Ebola patient to develop symptoms in the U.S., raise questions about the state's capacity to deal with contagious diseases.
The methodology behind KHN's analysis of the third year of the Medicare penalty program.
Those who held onto plans that didn't comply with the health law may have to choose new ones for 2015, and they could cost more.
A proton beam therapy center in Indiana is closing, and insurers are reluctant to cover the expensive treatment for common cancers. But plans for three new proton therapy centers for the D.C. area are still moving forward.
Consumers can look up their doctors and see if they were paid in any way by the health industry.
Jeffrey Brenner, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, is betting that coordinated care for "super utilizer" patients will reduce health costs.
A quarter of the nation's hospitals are exempt from penalties, quality bonuses and other payment reforms.
The regulation, slated to take effect Oct. 6, is a response to the widespread misuse of these prescription medicines.
Some insurance pros say the administration intended such coverage to meet Obamacare's "minimum value" standard. Others disagree, and the government stays silent.
Some of a hospital's income now depends on keeping patients healthy. Kevin Wiehrs seeks to save hospitals money by keeping former patients out of the hospital.
The pharmaceutical giant's latest deal is with MedStar Health, in the Washington, D.C., area.
More than 40 percent of the people who signed up for insurance on Kynect, Kentucky's exchange, used an insurance broker.
More companies will likely mean more competition and lower prices for consumers, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Tuesday.
Supporters of the controversial -- and high-priced -- therapy say more routine coverage would help propel necessary research.
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