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Urban Institute researchers examine how such a plan could work and whether it would be better to make payments when people first need care or after they have used up much of their own money instead.
A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine calls for the White House to lead a national strategy to promote and continue advances in trauma care.
A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis forecasts rates could jump 10 percent next year in 14 major metro markets.
New research also highlights the public’s lack of knowledge regarding the proper ways to store and dispose of these highly addictive prescriptions.
The average patient stay costs $4,000 more at Sutter and Dignity hospitals than at other California medical centers, study shows.
Researchers report that performance standards set by federal health officials may have led to many patients being dropped from transplant lists without improving survival rates.
More emerging prisoners are covered by Medicaid, but they still face barriers in navigating the health system, researchers said.
According to a new study, the health law’s insurance expansions have helped more people gain access to mental health services. But racial and ethnic disparities continue.
A CDC survey of teens and young adults finds that nearly half who have had sex but not been tested for disease believe they are not at risk. Yet young people account for half of all new sexually transmitted infections.
New research finds that patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS are less likely to get treatment for nine common cancers than are people who don’t have HIV.
But the authors caution against concluding that folic acid is ineffective.
New research finds that the impact of these mandates varies because of differences in states’ coverage requirements and the availability of treatment options.
A May Health Affairs study examines how Medicare’s eligibility age affects spending and prices, as well as the volume of services used by patients.
A nonprofit patient safety group devised nationally standardized measures to help pregnant women gauge hospitals on quality of maternity care.
The problems persist even after Congress in 2012 gave the FDA enhanced powers to respond when drug levels are low.
New research highlights the paradox in the federal program to improve hospital quality.
New research sheds light on the growing costs to the health care system associated with painkiller and heroin abuse.
Obama administration broadens eligibility for those in halfway houses, but advocates for former prisoners say HHS and states must do far more.
A report by the Guttmacher Institute finds that the proportion of teenagers who are getting instructions in birth control methods is declining.
Doctor visits and hospital stays were more likely for low-income adults in states after they expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine Monday.
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