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It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo…

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in…

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The Host After weeks of painstaking negotiations, Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate agreed to a major year-end…

It’s open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act — and there are ongoing challenges. First up, enrollment. New and…

Las nuevas inscripciones bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) parecen ser hasta un millón menos…

Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the…

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record…

Andy Miller and Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead Three Democratic senators asked the country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog on Tuesday…

Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job,…

Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk…

Colorado’s new voter-approved gun initiative has a target unlike those of previous measures meant to reduce gun violence. The tax…

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds…

LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations and tougher immigration restrictions is deepening mistrust of the health…

LOS ÁNGELES, California.— La promesa del presidente electo Donald Trump de deportaciones masivas y restricciones migratorias más severas está aumentando…

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked…

In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid…

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. “So, I don’t want to be dramatic,”…

Eloisa Mendoza ha pasado 18 años ayudando a personas que no dominan el inglés a comprender documentos legales complejos. Los…

SACRAMENTO, California — Un número creciente de personas —muchas de ellas mayores y sin hogar— están muriendo de frío durante…

“El futuro está aquí”, anunciaba el correo electrónico. Hilda Jaffe, que entonces tenía 88 años, les estaba diciendo a sus…

California’s controversial experiment to order mental illness and drug treatment for some of its sickest residents is rolling out statewide,…