The University of Hawaii has been awarded more than $1.5 million in private grant funding to strengthen rural health care ...

While many estimates are circulating, only time will reveal how many people will actually lose health insurance under the law ...

The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at efforts to improve care transitions. These are the movements that patients make among health care ...

Among different populations across the United States, substantial disparities in health and health care persist.

For example, that brief attacked the government’s citation to $43 billion of health care that the uninsured get but do not pay for, saying that most of that figure “is attributable to people not ...

Alaska's three biggest cities had the highest health care costs among cities and metro areas around the nation, analysis ...

Health care is expensive and getting more so, squeezing private enterprise and driving up the deficit. CBS News takes an in-depth look at the issue ...

Health-care companies of all types face new challenges as managed care evolves. This creates great opportunity for those who can sell their experience in the field to the advice-seeking players.

Medical device and equipment companies scored two-to-three points lower than those of the overall health care sample, and those organizations also had a 16% higher rate of reported breaches and ...

Health care providers routinely overuse a host of treatments and tests, including colonoscopies, heart catheterization, nuclear medicine cardiac stress tests and spinal surgery, he says.

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Under this arrangement, for example, the hospital would send the insurer or managed-care company a single bill for coronary bypass surgery that covers everything from pre-admission testing to ...