The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that dialysis care for illegal immigrants at a taxpayer-supported medical center costs $20 million a year and that the immigrants are being referred there from for-profit hospitals.
(Daily Report) Aug 20, 2009
Homeless young people without Medicaid coverage often navigate a maze of emergency rooms and clinics to get care they need.
(Daily Report) Aug 20, 2009
"For the most part, doctor fees are a mystery," The New York Times reports.
(Daily Report) Aug 19, 2009
President Obama Monday spoke about the wars, wasteful defense spending and boosting veterans' health care benefits through health reform at a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention.
(Daily Report) Aug 18, 2009
Primary care shortages produce significant challenges for the health care system and many family doctors hope reform will include tools to help with shortage. Also in primary care news, "traditional" concepts of masculinity may be a barrier to seeking primary care, and a doctor was fired for slandering junk food.
(Daily Report) Aug 14, 2009
U.S. health care reform efforts garner attention and reaction from around the globe especially from Britain.
(Daily Report) Aug 13, 2009
The Congressional Black Caucus has pledged to keep health reform center stage, noting that both the House and Senate bills would significantly reduce the number of uninsured Americans -- a disproportionate number of whom are black.
(Daily Report) Aug 12, 2009
The insurers' survey uses Medicare payments as the point of comparison for certain out-of-network fees in 30 states.
(Daily Report) Aug 11, 2009
Illegal immigrants are listening to the debate over whether they will be included in landmark health care reform legislation. But in the meantime, they are making life-and-death decisions about the care they need now.
(Daily Report) Aug 11, 2009
A new program trains doctors for a career working in rural communities. Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin introduced a bill this week that would allow nurse anesthetists to be reimbursed by Medicare.
(Daily Report) Aug 07, 2009