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The federal government recently handed consumers a new trove of data about how hospitals use their fancy medical scanners. The implicit message: Avoid hospitals that lean too heavily on devices that can expose you to radiation and other risks.
President Obama's appointment - during a congressional recess - of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services is focusing new attention on Berwick's record and beliefs, in particular a 2008 speech about Britain's National Health Service. This is an edited transcript.
The new health care law does not address costs for medical supplies
Forget sending workers overseas for lower cost medical care: A growing number of employers are encouraging workers to travel within the states to medical facilities they say have better quality and lower costs.
More than 30 states and Congress have passed laws requiring hospitals to publish their prices, but the information often is of little use to consumers.
A pair of papers in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine add to a growing chorus urging doctors to be more judicious in their use of CT scans.
The White House today released a "Fact Sheet: The Affordable Care Act's New Patient's Bill of Rights," the Obama administration's summary of new regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The number of people hospitalized or killed by serious heart attacks each year is down sharply, new studies show. The overall rate of hospitalization for heart disease is down, too. Experts attribute improving heart health to the decline in smoking, more people getting treated for high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and the greater attention many people now give to eating healthier foods and getting exercise. Prevention clearly pays off for those who pay attention.
When it comes to "social mission," traditionally high-ranked private medical schools are not as successful as public universities and historically black colleges.
Florida hospital administrators for years have said the state's high rate of preterm births -- and the infant health problems that result -- are beyond their control. But that's not true, as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has proved.
More than 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, the most common heart arrhythmia, but treatment choices vary widely
Under the new health law, a nonprofit entity called the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute will be established to carry out a comparative effectiveness research agenda, starting in 2012. The law bars the government from using findings as the sole basis for decisions about what Medicare will cover.
New health plans must cover tests, supplements for pregnant women, and home visits for young mothers.
The health care industry is bulletproof when it comes to increasing spending or creating jobs as growth rates often double the rest of the economy.
A new survey finds that, when it comes to their own health care, most people say "more is better, newer is better, you get what you pay for." That's frustrating for experts who say these things are often not true.
The law will extend health insurance to 32 million currently uninsured Americans by 2019, and will also have an impact on how nearly every American buys insurance and what insurance must cover.
More than $2.5 billion in government-backed loans to doctors, dentists and other health care providers is helping to stimulate the economy and help patients, but some health experts say the money could increase health costs.
David Blumenthal is guiding the deployment of up to $27 billion in federal stimulus money to help doctors and hospitals implement health information technology. Proponents say the shift is critical to achieving goals of medical care quality and cost control.
A deal to buy the beleaguered city's largest health system would mean $850 million in improvements.
A growing number of physicians are leaving traditional insurance-based practices to offer VIP treatment.
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