Medical economics

Denials of health insurance claims are rising, and getting weirder

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer's ...

Health informatics

The 'Hispanic paradox': Does a decades-old finding still hold up?

Many Hispanic people in the United States face socioeconomic disadvantages and lower access to affordable health care. Despite these and other challenges to their health, they generally tend to live longer than other racial ...

Health

N. Carolina governor signs Medicaid expansion bill into law

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making and gives the Democrat a legacy-setting victory, although one significant hurdle remains before coverage can be implemented, ...

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