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Hospitals delay care for older adults in ERs, causing them...
Judith Graham reports for KFF Health News on the plight of older adults in hospital emergency...
Cigna medical directors given little incentive to review prior...
A new Pro Publica report exposes how Cigna requires its medical directors to review prior...
UnitedHealth care delays, denies and grows ever bigger
At the same time that UnitedHealth is growing its Medicare Advantage business, it is growing many...
What’s happening to our hospitals?
Small independent hospitals are being acquired by large hospital systems across the US or, worse...
Raising Medicare eligibility age could lead to thousands of...
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Alison Galvani et...
Want to live longer? See a doctor who’s female
A new study finds that women live longer when they see female doctors. This study adds to a body of...
States address prior authorization denials, while Congress fears...
People across the country are facing increasing numbers of treatment denials from insurers, even...
Half of rural hospitals are losing money, closing units
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez reports for Kaiser Health News on the failing finances of half of rural...
Out-of-network care: Don’t trust your insurer to pay the...
MultiPlan, a data analytics firm, works with UnitedHealthcare and many big insurers to calculate...