When private prices for health care services decrease, Medicare spending increases, according to a new study. The finding raises the possibility that physicians and hospitals may be shifting some services to Medicare when ...
Dec 1, 2014
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Health care delivery in the United States is complex and often problematic—it is costly, short on quality, and inequitable. A team of researchers suggest one potential remedy may be found in integrated health systems, a ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Forty percent of people who received health care outside of their insurance network did so out of necessity, finds a new study in Health Services Research. About half of those patients did not know how much they would have ...
Oct 26, 2012
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Research led by scientists at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found that patients with continual care from the ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Suicide rates in the United States have surged over the past two decades, but the number of physicians, nurses, and other health care workers who can provide mental health care is getting smaller and smaller, leaving the ...
Oct 5, 2022
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Everybody wants a healthy life for their baby. Black babies are more likely to be born prematurely, which puts them at risk for death and developmental problems. In fact, a third of all infant deaths are preterm-related. ...
Sep 18, 2017
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The Medicaid expansions for low-income parents that took place in 34 states between 1996 and 2011 led to a 2.3 percent decrease in the uninsured rate among women who already had a child and became pregnant again, and a 7.9 ...
Dec 28, 2017
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People who experience a physical health problem, from diabetes and back pain to cancer or heart disease, are three times more likely to seek mental health care than patients who report having no physical ailment, according ...
Jul 17, 2012
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Nursing homes with a higher proportion of Black residents perform worse financially and provide lower-quality care than homes with few Black residents, finds a new study in Health Services Research.
Jun 26, 2013
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In 2015, more than 30,000 Americans died from overdosing on opioids, and a new study led by the University of Georgia shows that one of the hardest hit populations-low-income Americans on Medicaid-isn't getting the help it ...
Mar 30, 2017
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