Cate Douglass

Although the Affordable Care Act has helped many uninsured Americans receive coverage over the last couple years, the health law is essentially underfunded by approximately $500 billion.

Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that the little things a hospital can do goes a long way for the patient experience.

A patient's experience with hospital care and quality of integrated care delivery over time was related to quality of life 3 months after discharge from the hospital, according to a new study.

Policy makers who are creating initiatives to prevent the very costly and too frequent trips some patients take to the hospital may be examining a population that is actually smaller than they might realize.

With a deadline less than 2 months away, researchers with Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange found that only 20% of physician practices have started or completed testing for the transition to International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.

Traditional health plan enrollees are more satisfied with overall health coverage and out-of-pocket costs and are also more likely to recommend their coverage to a friend than individuals with consumer-driven health plans or high-deductible health plans.

End-stage cancer patients who were in general the healthiest and most active displayed worse quality of life signs in their last week of life when they were given palliative chemotherapy and there were no benefits to overall survival.

Despite concerns that an increasing number of insured individuals could mean longer wait times for doctors' appointments, a new study found that the availability for primary care physicians improved for individuals obtaining Medicaid improved in Michigan after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

More than half of patients in numerous disease states are nonadherent to their medications and 30% of patients do not fill their prescriptions.

Long-term acute care hospitals provide better outcomes and more cost-effective care when treating critically ill and medically complex patients.

Although Hispanic adults were more likely to have a consistent place of care in 2014 compared with 2013, they were still more likely to experience difficulty in accessing and utilizing care than the non-Hispanic population.

Young adult cancer survivors who had received their first rounds of cancer treatment between the ages of 20 and 44 were 1.5 times more likely to have more hospitalizations after remission than the general public.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association's release of recommendations for statin treatment in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in 2013 have now proven both cost-effective and accurate in identifying CVD risk.

Feelings remain mixed among patients, medical records staff, and physicians on a number of functions associated with electronic patient records.

The 17th annual HealthCare's Most Wire Survey indicates that hospitals are beginning to utilize information technology to send and share information across care settings.

CDC report estimates that the Affordable Care Act could lead to 111,000 fewer new coronary heart disease events and 95,000 fewer CVD-related deaths by 2050.

Individuals living with a combination of diabetes and cardiovascular disease are more likely to have a shorter life expectancy, researchers from the University of Cambridge found.

As information technology is becoming ever more prevalent in patient care, researchers analyzed the role these technologies play in patient care in an emergency department setting in a study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

Healthcare spending for children covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) rising faster than the rest of the ESI population, Health Care Cost Institute report finds.

Cigna and Providence-Swedish Health Alliance ACO in Western Washington recently launched a care collaboration initiative that will benefit more than 7100 individuals who are covered by a Cigna health plan.

New exchange plan enrollees during the first quarter of 2015 spent less on medications than new enrollees during the same time frame 1 year ago

California's recent initiatives to address the impact of high priced hepatitis C drugs could not have come at a better time, as a new analysis estimates that the state's projected specialty drug expenditure would be $4.77 billion in the next year alone.

In addition to increasing insurance coverage, the Affordable Care Act also aims to improve population health and lower healthcare costs. However, not much attention has been paid to the quality of care the newly insured are receiving.

Metastatic colorectal cancer patients with higher body mass index (BMI) outlived patients with the lowest BMI by an average of 2-and-a-half months, according to new data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 17th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2015.

CMS has begun to implement risk adjustment and reinsurance programs, 2 premium stabilization programs of the Affordable Care Act. The report highlighted the estimated reinsurance payments issuer in addition to summary level information on the programs, which helps to keep premiums affordable as well as various coverage options available to consumers.

In an effort to better examine and understand the implementation and effects of the Affordable Care Act, researchers from the Urban Institute found that nongroup health insurance premiums in insurance marketplaces were lower than expected.

Certain exchange benefit plans have recently begun to place all specialty medications for complex diseases on the highest drug formulary cost-sharing tier, according to an analysis from Avalere Health.

More than half of physicians in a nationwide survey are willing to see their patients over video, claiming the work-life balance to be the most common reason for the potential change in health system referrals.

Researchers of The Commonwealth Fund discovered that 95% of individuals with Medicaid coverage over the past year had a regular doctor and 55% of this population reported receiving excellent or very good care.

As electronic health records increasingly grow more important in the healthcare environment, so too does cybersecurity.