(Time) – As the number of elderly Americans soars, Medicare is testing improved benefits for seriously ill seniors. Medicare recently announced new rules that may ease...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Medicare and Medicaid turn 50 this week, the nation takes a look at the impact...
(Miami Herald) – Consumers with health insurance shouldered more of the expense for their medical care in 2014, but Florida and nearly every other state did little...
(Morning Ticker) – Recently we reported on the FDA’s decision to approve Entresto, a new drug from Novartis that has shown an astonishing 20 percent reduction...
By Manny Otiko, California Black Media In 1998, San Pedro resident Alaina Howard was diagnosed with Takayasu’s arteritis, a disease that narrows and obstructs...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare proposed Wednesday to ease a coverage policy on short hospital stays that has been criticized because it can...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Centene has jumped into the mix of managed-care companies scrambling to bulk up as the health care overhaul changes their business...
By David Sayen People ask me all kinds of questions about Medicare. One of the most frequent concerns is whether they should sign up for...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower...
EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to side with the government on whether the federal government could continue subsidizing...
EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans wanted the Supreme Court to side with the government on whether the federal government could continue subsidizing...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — His health care legacy secure, President Barack Obama cast Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare as a historic and...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Hundreds of American hospitals are turning a profit by charging patients exorbitant rates for necessary procedures. And...
By McKenzie Jackson/ California Black Media Los Angeles County resident Diyon Clark is relieved to learn that his Medi-Cal renewal will be automatic this year....
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press KEVIN S. VINEYS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 10 million people have signed up for private health insurance this year...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive...
By Manny Otiko/California Black Media When LaRita Reed graduated from UCLA, she was excited about earning her degree and all the possibilities that lay ahead....
More Californians than ever before have health insurance, but coverage isn’t care, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has magnified the deep racial, ethnic and cultural...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even as health care costs continue to cause concerns for the poor, nearly 40 percent African...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of uninsured U.S. residents fell by more than 11 million since President Barack Obama signed the health...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 16 million Americans have gained coverage since President Barack Obama’s health care law...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 16 million Americans have gained coverage since President Barack Obama’s health care law...