By Edward Henderson California Black Media McKenzie Young is a traveling nurse from California who works in Hawaii. She gets placements through an agency that connects...
By Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters California will soon restart its annual eligibility review for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, a process that has been suspended since the...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Employers are leaving a bigger chunk of the bill for care to workers who use their health insurance, and benefits experts...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — With the third open enrollment season under the Affordable Care Act beginning in about six weeks, Obama administration officials said Tuesday...
(PBS) Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writers MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of two major health insurers planning multibillion dollar acquisitions made their case...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Barack Obama’s health care law unjustly burdens religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — About 9.9 million people have signed up and paid for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health...
(Forbes) – As hospital operators begin to report second period earnings — the sixth consecutive quarter of new revenue from once uninsured patients — the number...
(Time) – As the number of elderly Americans soars, Medicare is testing improved benefits for seriously ill seniors. Medicare recently announced new rules that may ease...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Medicare and Medicaid turn 50 this week, the nation takes a look at the impact...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare proposed Wednesday to ease a coverage policy on short hospital stays that has been criticized because it can...
EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to side with the government on whether the federal government could continue subsidizing...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — His health care legacy secure, President Barack Obama cast Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare as a historic and...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Hundreds of American hospitals are turning a profit by charging patients exorbitant rates for necessary procedures. And...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive...
MATTHEW CRAFT, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty years ago, insurance companies had the answer to the soaring cost of caring for the elderly....
(USA Today) – Physician Praveen Arla is witnessing a reversal of health care fortunes: Poor, long-uninsured patients are getting Medicaid through Obamacare and finally coming...
(ABC News) – When the House voted to approve the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act this week, lawmakers including Speaker John Boehner rejoiced that the move...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Millions of Medicare Advantage customers are fast approaching a deadline for a task they’d rather avoid: Researching and then settling on...
(New York Times) BOSTON — The death rate in Massachusetts dropped significantly after it adopted mandatory health care coverage in 2006, a study released Monday found,...
(Bloomberg) – Obamacare reduced the percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance to its lowest point since 2008 even as the law remains unpopular with the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance companies can no longer turn away people with medical problems, but the Obama administration isn’t taking any chances with thousands of...
CHICAGO (AP) – The online insurance marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul struggled to handle the wave of new...
