Most older adults are not using tax-advantaged savings accounts to save for future health expenses, a new poll of people age 50 to 80 suggests, and those who do are more likely to have high incomes and education levels, and ...
Sep 9, 2021
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The long list of side effects that follow ads for the newer expensive drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes sometimes include an unusual warning: They might cause weight loss. That side effect is one that many people—especially ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Federal agencies that regulate drug pricing and healthcare insurance are concerned that an industry practice of using rebates to lower drug costs for insurers has led to increases in list prices and out-of-pockets costs for ...
Jun 15, 2021
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(HealthDay)—COVID-19 could be a much more expensive experience for folks who fall ill this year, thanks to the return of deductibles and copays, new research suggests.
Jun 9, 2021
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Many American workers remain in jobs they'd rather leave—simply because they don't want to lose their health insurance, a new Gallup poll reveals.
May 7, 2021
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Treating patients has become more expensive during the pandemic, and doctors and dentists don't want to be on the hook for all the new costs.
May 5, 2021
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New research by a team from the Cleveland Clinic and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has determined that surgeries performed late in the workweek, and those culminating in discharge to a specialty ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Seems everybody has a horror story about health insurance: Kafkaesque debates with robotic agents about what is and isn't covered. Huge bills from a doctor you didn't know was "out of network." Reimbursements that take months ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Nearly 1.7 million times in the past year, Americans have checked into hospitals to get treated for severe cases of COVID-19.
Feb 18, 2021
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Only about one in every 170 children take them. But 'orphan drugs' accounted for 1 in every 15 private insurance dollars spent on children's health care in the United States in 2018, according to a new study. That's up 65% ...
Oct 6, 2020
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