AI Is Being Used to Boost Medicaid Enrollment, but Not Without Concerns Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it ...
Earlier Lifeline for Rural Hospitals Faces Test Under ‘Big Beautiful’ Law A century-old hospital near Michigan’s southern border was one of the nation’s first to convert into a new emergency-focused model Congr...
They Worked To Protect Public Health. Now They Want the Public’s Votes. A handful of former public health officials are campaigning for top statewide offices across the country, testing whether their experi...
Medicaid Insurers’ Contracts on the Line in Tight Governor’s Race One of America’s most competitive gubernatorial races could settle a heated argument over whether private insurance companies should r...
Uninsured but Undaunted, a Surgical Patient Searched the Globe for a Deal Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, w...
Federal Loan Caps Add Barriers — And Likely Debt — for Healthcare Students Benjamin Pinckney has dreamed of becoming a physician assistant since he was 20 years old but says new student loan limits enacted by ...
Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of t...