Earlier this year, my mother made a hard choice. After reviewing her medical history with her physician, she chose to have a preventative double mastectomy and hysterectomy. Her employer-based ...

With increasing quality problems in the U.S. health care system, many health insurers are turning to a new approach to get doctors and hospitals to do better: pay-for-performance. In this approach, ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: Our colleague Julie Wernau covers health and medicine. And for the ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

Being without medical insurance can leave you unsure of where to turn for care when you need it. To see a doctor without insurance, take advantage of walk-in clinics, online membership ...

Arturo Chavez hated waiting weeks for an appointment with his HMO doctor. So these days, the San Diego cabinetmaker does something much more convenient: he schedules appointments with a new doctor ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday told insurers that they need to support the Trump administration's policies on transparency, value-based payments, interoperability and data access, cautioning ...

Before Medicare for All could ever enter the American doctor’s office, several economic and medical mountains would have to be moved. First, the transition to a plan like the one Sen. Bernie Sanders ...

ALBANY, Ore. (KOIN) — Madyson Jones jokingly refers to herself as a “frequent flyer” at her doctor’s office. But when she needs to make appointments, there’s hardly any waiting time or payment stress.