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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.
Areas like Provo, Utah, that were once models of cost-efficient care are becoming more expensive
Although some critics say marketing drives up costs, many in the hospital industry say it's crucial in the face of increasing competition. One Dallas area hospital is trying a version of "speed dating" to bring in patients and doctors.
The new health law mandates that insurers cannot pay less for emergency care in "out-of-network" hospitals and eases consumer worries about having to pre-authorize an emergency room visit.
The Partnership for Health in Aging released a set of 23 skills that all health care professionals - doctors, dentists, nurses, social workers and others - should have by the time they receive their degrees.
People who are dying currently can't get Medicare to pay for hospice care if they continue aggressive curative treatment. But the new health overhaul law could lead to a major change in olicy that allows both hospice and curative care.
Public health officials and a host of prevention and wellness groups have sharply different ideas about how to spend a big pot of new federal prevention money
For the third time this year, Congress has just days to avert a scheduled 21 percent cut in pay to doctors who treat seniors and others on the Medicare program. And no one seems to be able to figure out how to solve the problem in anything except a stopgap way.
Too many nonprofit hospitals fail to adequately publicize their charity-care programs, two advocacy groups say in a survey report released today.
Medical homes - where primary care doctors are held responsible for coordinating care for individual patients
Specialists make a lot more than doctors who are generalists, so-called primary care doctors. But the size of the gap might surprise you: Try more than $100,000 a year.
At the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, students get hands-on lessons about the impact of treatment costs on patients by volunteering Saturdays at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program, a student-run free clinic for uninsured residents of a low-income neighborhood nearby.
Doctors in training have traditionally been insulated from details about the cost of tests and treatments they prescribe. But concerns about rising health costs are slowly changing that.
Electronic medical records could help curb health costs by providing doctors with details on the price of tests and drugs, health policy experts say.
Gaps in insurance policies make oral drugs too pricey for some cancer patients.
Doctors who accept speaking fees, five-star meals and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names -- and the value of the gifts they accept -- revealed on the Web.
There is a hidden cost how we fund health insurance in the U.S.: insurers have more information about health care than the taxpayers that help fund it. The system's opacity gives insurers the upper hand in debates over government payment rates.
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