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By Chad Terhune Among all the reasons for rising health insurance premiums, this one might be the most obscure: A long-term care insurer in Pennsylvania ...

By Jay Hancock As a drug salesman, Mike Courtney worked hard to make health care expensive. He wined and dined doctors, golfed with them and ...

By Liz Szabo In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung ...

Chest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiting ...

By Steven Findlay Tameka Henry takes care of her disabled husband, her 87-year-old grandfather and her four children, ages 10 to 16. Two of her ...

By Julie Rovner So the Senate has voted to start debate on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Now what? Well, it gets ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) today outlined its opposition to current efforts in the U.S. Senate aimed at replacing or repealing the Affordable Care Act, ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) responded today to policies outlined last week in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) physician fee schedule proposed ...

By Julie Rovner Much has been written lately about how individuals’ health could suffer if they lose insurance under the health proposals circulating in the ...

By Julie Rovner Senate Republican leaders Thursday released their revised bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, but they acknowledged that furious days ...