Shopping Around Annually In Federal Health Care Exchange Can Pay Off

Individuals enrolled in health plans offered in the federal health insurance exchange who switched plans during the 2016 open season saved, on average, more than $500 in premiums than if they had stayed in their current plan, the Department of Health & Human Services reported Tuesday.

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UnitedHealth Quitting Obamacare Markets In Georgia, Arkansas

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, has decided to call it quits in two state Obamacare markets, in the latest challenge to President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul.

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How Health Care Factors Into the Presidential Campaign

Health care has faded into the background of the election campaign as Donald Trump himself has become the issue on the Republican side and the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over health care has shifted to other topics. Health wasn’t even listed among the “most important issues” Republican voters could select from in the exit poll of Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary.

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California Hospitals Give $8.5 Million To Tax-Hike Measure

A lobbying group for California hospitals is giving $8.5 million to an initiative campaign to extend a temporary tax increase on the wealthy.

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If Healthcare Prices Emerge, Americans Won’t Link To Quality

As the healthcare industry begins to offer more ways for consumers to see and use price information, a new study indicates Americans don’t often link the price tag with quality

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What Yelp Can Tell You About A Hospital that Official Ratings Can’t

If you've ever taken the time to give Yelp your two cents about a hospital, you'll be happy to know that someone's listening and that they've deemed the crowdsourced information not only useful — but unique.

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California Hospital Hacks Reveal Weak Links In Health Cybersecurity

For 10 days in February, the staff at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had to treat patients the old fashioned way with pen-and-paper forms, faxes and hand-delivered X-rays. Gone were many of the data-reliant, high-tech tools that have transformed medical care, according to local media reports.

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What’s California’s Prescription for Rising Drug Cost?

In a small room at a neighborhood clinic in Sacramento, a handful of hepatitis C patients wait to see their physician, hoping they’ll be found sick enough to be approved for a cure.

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Undocumented Could Be Allowed To Buy Covered California Health Policy

In a move called both symbolic and practical, the Covered California board took the first step Thursday toward allowing undocumented residents to purchase health plans – with no state or federal subsidies – through California’s Obamacare marketplace.

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Drug Prices Got You Down? Pharma Couldn’t Care Less

One way of defining a "rogue" industry is to see which ones have declared war on their customers. By that measure, pharma stands at or near the top of combining the elements that go into making a rogue: contempt for the public and the unmitigated pursuit of greed.

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