With the third open enrollment period underway, 11.7 percent of adult Americans still lack health insurance coverage, according to an analysis from WalletHub.
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The New York Times has created an interactive map outlining each state and county's uninsured rates.
Physicians generally say health insurance companies interfere with their ability to provide high quality care, according to a poll by ReviveHealth. The factor that influences this most is the amount of coverage plans provide and the number of claims denials,…
In the patient-payer-provider triad, payers are not fully capitalizing on their relationships, according to Rena Xu, MD, a resident physician at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and contributor to The New Yorker.
Although a significant number of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults have gained health insurance since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the expansion of Medicaid in 31 states and insurance marketplaces, gaps in care still exist, according to…
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In a recent study published in the Journal of Women's Health, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins researchers found Medicaid-insured, low-income women who experienced complications with their pregnancies used the emergency room at higher than average rates after delivery.
New health insurance data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the uninsured rate has dropped in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
This year 423,000 people lost coverage under the Affordable Care Act due to immigration and citizenship issues, nearly four times as many as last year, according to the Associated Press.
Almost 950,000 consumers chose healthcare coverage on HealthCare.gov when they became eligible following the latest open enrollment period.
The uninsured rate dropped to 11.7 percent in the first half of 2015, down from 17.3 percent in 2013, according to The Hill.