A self-employed couple already had to dip into retirement savings for health costs. Now, they are skipping vacations and ...

'Pay before treatment' is a widespread, though largely unregulated, practice in Nigerian hospitals, forcing patients, especially those in emergencies, to make upfront deposits or payments before ...

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The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively raising the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats […] ...

Iowa House Republicans voted to temporarily increase taxes on some private health insurance providers to fill a gap in the state's Medicaid budget.

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively bumping the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats and insurers said ...

Vertical integration is likely to reduce patient choice, restrict doctors’ referrals and prescriptions, and increase costs in the long term, critics say.

If the government wants to pursue more public-private partnerships, it must consider a funding model that guarantees equity of access.

Hello, and welcome to Health Brief. While Republicans in the House are sussing out which policies they want to grab from the ...

The president of the Tennessee Medical Association argues that newly proposed legislation will improve healthcare transparency and curb costs.

The measure proposes a one-time tax increase retroactively for certain health insurance plan premiums from 0.925% to 3.5% for ...

The U.S. health insurance industry relies heavily on private markets, but these markets are highly concentrated and are growing more so over time. In a new analysis, researchers document concentration ...