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Medicare Health Plan Members Not Receiving Information on How to Lower Health Care Costs

In a recent survey of 500 Medicare Health consumers by HealthMine found 89 percent of Medicare Health plan members aged

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) The Villages Regional Hospital did not sweat its decision to add hyperbaric oxygen

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) An increasing number of patients fail to pay their full hospital bills, according

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) While the ACA’s Medicaid expansion lowered uncompensated care costs for nonprofit hospitals, those

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Boston-based Minuteman Health, one of the last remaining nonprofit co-op health plans created

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) Americans named healthcare costs as their top financial anxiety in a Gallup poll administered in

(By Rob Stein for NPR) Advances in technology have made it much easier, faster and less expensive to do whole genome

As we get older, it helps to tickle the noggin’ with trivia. Here’s a pop quiz to see what you have

(By Gerry Hafer) At the center of just about every conversation in Washington these days is one topic: the Health

(By Andrea Hsu for NPR) Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our