Tag Archives: managed care

By Roni Caryn Rabin One California hospital charged $10 for a blood cholesterol test, while another hospital that ran the same test charged $10,169 — ...

By Shefali Luthra One of the hopes embedded in the health law was to expand the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in addressing the ...

By Alan Lyndon The VA is aggressively hiring physicians and significantly increasing referrals of veterans to private docs. That’s the word from the new chief ...

By Phil Galewitz WHEELING, W.Va. – Without insurance, Pam Milliken relied for years on the free health clinic here to help manage her arthritis, high blood ...

By Sandra G. Boodman Francisco Velazco couldn’t wait any longer. For several years, the 35-year-old Seattle handyman had searched for an orthopedic surgeon who would reconstruct ...

By Jeffrey Cohen, WNPR On a recent afternoon at his office in Hartford, Conn., Dr. Doug Gerard examines a patient complaining of joint pain. Gerard, an internist, ...

By Julie Rovner An expert panel recommended Tuesday completely overhauling the way government pays for the training of doctors, saying the current $15 billion system is ...

By Phil Galewitz About 10.3 million Americans gained health coverage this year, primarily as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a study by the ...

By Franklin Rooks Jr., PT, MBA, Esq.   Introduction Health savings accounts (HSA’s) were created under “The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of ...

By Lucia F. Bruno, J.D., LL.M., M.B.A. Urgent care medicine has emerged as one of the fastest growing specialties in the United States.  Many family ...