Health Care

Public guidance and policies on reducing community spread of COVID-19 have focused heavily on the theme of staying at home. But these policies do little to protect those without a safe place to self-isolate. How are people experiencing…

A federal judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction preventing ProMedica’s insurance subsidiary from terminating contracts with competing providers. U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary found that the plaintiffs, McLaren St.…

Such incentives or policy push would provide much-needed momentum to this critical segment. By Rajiv Mishra Union Budget 2021-22 Expectations for Healthcare: The upcoming 2020-21 Union Budget has the potential of being a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Words matter. But numbers tell stories, too. Presidential historians and others will plumb them as they assess President Donald Trump’s legacy, Trump’s presidency is reflected in a broad…

Alysa Gummow didn’t know what to think in October when the letters from law firms arrived in the mail. She had filed for bankruptcy in 2017 to restructure nearly $50,000 in debt — mostly from an earlier hip surgery. But that was resolved.…

Verily announced late last week that it just completed a fresh investment round and has raised nearly $700 million in funding from prominent investors. The funding comes at a time when the healthcare and life-sciences…

Next week, the Trump administration’s ban on most immigrant workers is set to expire. That policy — which went into effect early in the pandemic in order to protect jobs, according to the administration — exempted…

As hospitals leverage their market power to increase prices, they use their financial gains to attract more privately insured patients and divert Medicaid beneficiaries, exacerbating health inequities, according to new research.…

Stunningly, some of the most dramatic gains in cancer survival rates have occurred among patients with certain cancer types, such as metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), for which survival outcomes were poor historically. At this…

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Anita Fox, Director of the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS), has joined a group of state insurance commissioners in a pledge to work with President-elect Joe…