What happens when your hospital is also your insurance company? We're starting to see the effects
Historically, hospitals have provided care for people, while separate insurers have paid for that care.
Aug 18, 2026
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Health Care Economics and Organizations: News and Research on Financing, Organized
MeSH tree: N03.219.521
Simplifying the application process for public assistance programs can achieve true government efficiency
Each year, millions of Americans spend a significant amount of time applying to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other public assistance programs to meet their basic food and health care ...
Aug 12, 2026
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A handful of corporations now shape how adolescents in Medicaid get care
The United States is in the middle of a well-documented adolescent mental health crisis. Because Medicaid provides medical coverage for roughly half of all children in the country, the program has an essential role in responding ...
Aug 4, 2026
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Q&A: AI in health care—an evolving landscape of new technologies, productivity benefits and legal uncertainties
AI tools are already being used in hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices. Who is making treatment decisions, and who is responsible if an AI gets it wrong? To address these questions, science and technology editor Eric ...
Jul 29, 2026
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Poll: Costs are top health care issue for midterm voters, but fraud tops GOP list
Health care costs top the list of voters' health care priorities for the midterm elections, with half (51%) of all voters and more than half of Democratic (60%) and independent (55%) voters saying the issue is extremely important ...
Jul 23, 2026
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1 in 4 American workers report staying in unwanted jobs for health insurance
Nearly one in four U.S. workers (24%) say they are currently in jobs they want to quit but stay with their employer for the health insurance, according to new research from the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America. ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Doctors 'cringe' at possibility of documenting which Medicaid enrollees are too sick to work
Dr. Alice Thornton has spent more than two decades treating people living with HIV in Lexington, Kentucky. Her team tends to "cringe" anytime they hear about patients having to fill out lots of paperwork, like when applying ...
Jul 21, 2026
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2018 to 2024 saw rise in insurance denials for brand-name drugs
Insurance denials of initial attempts to fill brand-name prescription drugs with no generic competitors increased by more than two-thirds from 2018 to 2024, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American ...
Jul 21, 2026
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A sales tax on doctor visits and medicine? In Missouri, some worry
Missouri health care advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can't afford it. The 27-year-old said she takes 10 medications daily to manage multiple chronic illnesses.
Jul 17, 2026
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Facing funding losses, states call out big businesses with employees on Medicaid
As the Trump administration's January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees ...
Jul 16, 2026
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