Going to the hospital shouldn’t feel like a game of roulette. But in Nevada — and throughout most of the country — every time you step into an emergency room, you’re spinning the wheel, gambling your ...

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Amanda McAllister-Wallner Amanda McAllister-Wallner is executive director of Health Access California, ...

An Associated Press review of industry reports and interviews with nearly two dozen experts found at least 15 deaths in the past 15 months blamed on the shortages, either because the right drug wasn't ...

Enacting payment reform would yield significant savings for Medicare – to the tune of more than $200 billion over 10 years, ...

Last January, a series of massive wildfires broke out across the Los Angeles area, fueled by high winds and dry temperatures. The fires raged for weeks, incinerating entire neighborhoods in the ...

Miffed about stagnant wages? The hospital down the street may be the culprit. Spending on hospital care eclipsed $1.5 trillion in 2023, the latest year for which there’s data — more than any other ...

Even in the eye-popping context of Americans’ annual $4.9 trillion “health care costs”, hospitals accounted for over $1.5 trillion, or 31%, in 2023 alone. And when you place that first astronomical ...

Hospitals are acquiring doctor’s offices at a faster rate, and prices are rising as a result, according to new research. Between 2008 and 2016, the share of physicians integrated with a hospital ...

The cost implications are massive. Consider a cystoscopy, a procedure used to diagnose and treat problems in a person's ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A severe drug shortage of life-saving medications is endangering patients across the country. It's forcing hospitals to buy the drugs from secondary suppliers at exorbitant ...