Advocating preventive care and streamlining administrative costs are among the steps being promised by the health care industry to help cut $2 trillion in health care expenses over the next decade.
Nineteen-year-old Stuart Wald is not likely to grow out of his schizophrenia, bipolar disease and attention-deficit disorder. But he will, with 100 percent certainty, grow out of the health insurance coverage he has through his father's employer -- and that day is just a few years away.
After his sister nagged him for eight years to go to the doctor, Kurt Berger finally had a physical late last year. Then in January, he received a phone call from his doctor: Tests showed he had prostate cancer.
A survey being released by the Mercer consulting firm found 59% of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits
Q Last March my husband was treated at an urgent-care facility. Afterward we called our health insurer to confirm that this was covered. (They said it was.) We mailed the receipt and waited to be r...
Genetic testing can help predict many diseases and one day may help prevent them, but privacy concerns and fears of abuse could derail the technology's potential.
Governments, charities and companies are scrambling to help Katrina survivors around the country. And they're managing to provide an unprecedented level of assistance.
Health savings accounts haven't taken America by storm. Not yet, anyway. The tax-free investment accounts paired with high-deductible health insurance are a big part of President Bush's "ownership ...
Advocating preventive care and streamlining administrative costs are among the steps being promised by the health care industry to help cut $2 trillion in health care expenses over the next decade.
Nineteen-year-old Stuart Wald is not likely to grow out of his schizophrenia, bipolar disease and attention-deficit disorder. But he will, with 100 percent certainty, grow out of the health insurance coverage he has through his father's employer -- and that day is just a few years away.
After his sister nagged him for eight years to go to the doctor, Kurt Berger finally had a physical late last year. Then in January, he received a phone call from his doctor: Tests showed he had prostate cancer.
A survey being released by the Mercer consulting firm found 59% of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits
Q Last March my husband was treated at an urgent-care facility. Afterward we called our health insurer to confirm that this was covered. (They said it was.) We mailed the receipt and waited to be r...
Genetic testing can help predict many diseases and one day may help prevent them, but privacy concerns and fears of abuse could derail the technology's potential.
Governments, charities and companies are scrambling to help Katrina survivors around the country. And they're managing to provide an unprecedented level of assistance.
Health savings accounts haven't taken America by storm. Not yet, anyway. The tax-free investment accounts paired with high-deductible health insurance are a big part of President Bush's "ownership ...
A patient whose hospital stay was cut short and a man forced to take a cheaper prescription drug want their day in court to prove their malpractice lawsuits. The question Tuesday before the Supreme Court was: Just which court should decide the matter?
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