Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals ....
Back Pain? Bum Knee? Be Prepared to Wait for a Physical Therapist At no point along his three-year path to earning a degree in physical therapy has Matthew Lee worried about getting a job. Being able to ma...
How the Thyroid Gland Mystifies Doctors and Patients About 25 years ago, Andy Miller learned he had hypothyroidism, a condition that afflicts millions of other Americans. Curious about how this...
What Would a DeSantis Presidency Look Like for Health Care? On the presidential campaign trail, Republican Ron DeSantis touts himself as a champion of medical freedom, outlawing vaccine mandates and p...
From Hospital to Hospitality: Spin Doctors Brand Getting Sick as an Adventure. It’s Not. The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to visit California, whose coas...
Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400 Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal ch...
Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits Assisted living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently...