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Medicaid expansion had a ‘close to zero’ net effect on nonprofit hospital finances, report finds

(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

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Pennsylvania lawmakers crafted two bills with bipartisan support that would protect patients from

(By Gerry Hafer for Good Sense News) Call them the meat in the sandwich, the volumes between the bookends, or

(By Sharon Jayson for Kaiser Health News) Wilhelmina Delco learned to swim at 80. Harold Berman is in his 67th