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As private equity extends its reach into health care, evidence is mounting that the penetration has led to higher prices and diminished quality of care, a KHN investigation has found.

Whether you already get your insurance through the marketplace or are eligible to, be aware that the time to pick a plan for 2023 is from Nov. 1 to Jan. 15.

Other companies, including Walgreens, Walmart and Amazon, are opening or investing in doctor offices.

More than 1 in ten patients who use insulin report spending a significant portion of their income on the drug.

Democrats plan to submit a “finalized agreement” on allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies to a key Senate official “in the coming days” to see if it complies with the chamber’s strict budget rules, one of the sources said.

An emotional scene played out Thursday afternoon outside Stroger Hospital in Chicago as an adult brother and sister battling a terminal illness were surrendered to medical staff.

On measures like maternal mortality, infant mortality and paid leave after birth, the U.S. lags behind comparable countries

Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since he left office in 2017

Federal regulators are suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s purchase of the technology company Change Healthcare, a deal announced more than a year ago.

The program helps place primary care doctors in communities that have a hard time recruiting and retaining them.

Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The Affordable Care Act is now secure in the framework of the nation’s health care programs, and Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond.

Some U.S. employers and insurers want you to make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits

President Joe Biden is pledging that his $1.9 trillion rescue package will build on the promise of the Affordable Care Act

Former Associate FDA Commissioner Peter Pitts breaks down five critical healthcare lessons that have come from the COVID-19 pandemic and explores why many of those lessons have fallen on deaf ears.

Studies show there is still a good deal of mistrust in the coronavirus vaccines as the first wave of shots is rolling out to millions of Americans across the country. Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Melissa Simon, both of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and who have both already received a first dose of the vaccine, talked to LX...

COVID-19 represents the “largest mass fatality incident in modern New York City history,” prompting a surge in deaths that more than doubled the total reported to the medical examiner’s office over last year, according to a new report from the mayor’s office. The findings were part of the COVID-19 section of the Mayor’s Management Report for Fiscal Year 2020,...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Tuesday released a draft proposal for distributing a coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. if and when one is approved for public use.