Native Americans have shorter life spans: Better health care isn't the only answer
Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
Apr 22, 2024
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Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
Apr 22, 2024
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Medicare Part D plans significantly increased restrictions on prescription drugs, excluding more compounds from coverage or subjecting more of them to review before patients could access the treatments, according to a new ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Joyce Shen was devastated when doctors said her firstborn, Emory, hadn't passed her newborn hearing screening. Emory was diagnosed with profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears as an infant, meaning sounds are extremely ...
Jan 24, 2024
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The vast majority of older adults—83%—think health insurers should cover medications that can help people with obesity manage their weight, a new poll of people age 50 to 80 finds.
Dec 13, 2023
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Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied the initial request before eventually approving ...
Sep 26, 2023
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In 2021, 1.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina moved from a fee-for-service Medicaid model to a managed care system known as N.C. Medicaid Managed Care. In this plan, the state pays a set amount per beneficiary ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Amid heightened demand for mental health care, a new study finds that nearly two-thirds of Medicare Advantage psychiatrist networks contain less than 25% of all psychiatrists in a given service area.
Jul 5, 2023
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Mary Zhelyazkova was surprised when pharmacists at Florida's largest safety net hospital said they could not fill her prescription.
Jun 16, 2023
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Hundreds of rural hospitals across the United States are teetering on the edge of closure, with their financial status increasingly in peril, a new report reveals.
Jan 16, 2023
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The quality and accessibility of health care plays a crucial role in preventing and mitigating health problems. A study conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest city of 9 million residents, showed that people living ...
Dec 8, 2022
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