Missourians want the state to both expand and reform the Medicaid program, a group of state lawmakers and citizens has concluded, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
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HHS has announced $69.7 million in grants to 13 states to expand services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Maternal, Infant and Early Childhod Home Visiting Program.
Sequestration is a dirty word for many hospitals. The automatic, 2 percent spending cuts to hospitals' reimbursement from the federal government — required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 — put additional pressure on hospitals' already tight margins. Reduced…
About 14 million Americans will gain insurance from Medicaid expansion and the insurance exchanges by next year — and that number is expected to grow to 34 million by 2017, according to Truven Health Analytics. The influx of new patients…
Uninsured patients are not distributed evenly across the country or across demographic groups, according to Census Bureau information reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers University broke ground on its $56 million New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health last week.
From 2010 to 2011, 19 states such as Texas, California and Florida experienced a significant decrease in their rate of uninsured residents, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
A study released last week by an association of large U.S. employers found that more than 1 in 5 of U.S. employers (22 percent) plan to offer only high deductible health plans to their employees next year as a way…
The Ohio Hospital Association and the Ohio Alliance for Health Transformation are gathering signatures to put expanding the state's Medicaid program on the 2014 ballot, according to a WOSU Public Media report.
The U.S. is the least efficient among countries with advanced economies when it comes to healthcare, spending the most on a relative cost basis and experiencing the worst outcomes, according to a Bloomberg data analysis.