Richard Feldman: Single-payer health care might be only future choice
America is the only highly developed country in the world that does not guarantee health care coverage for all people.
America is the only highly developed country in the world that does not guarantee health care coverage for all people.
MindX founders think they’ve found a scientific way to measure pain and other hard-to-quantify mental health conditions, such as suicide risk, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Doctors fighting a reimbursement battle with one of the biggest U.S. health insurers want to make sure that ending surprise medical bills doesn’t come at the expense of their pay.
A single-payer model could convert public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid into an efficient single system, allowing us to scrap Medicaid altogether.
Many of the providers are not traditional health systems, but rather small, for-profit startups attracted by a soaring demand for recovery services.
It wasn’t the first time Biles had criticized Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics and its former president, Steve Penny, for its inaction against Larry Nassar. But rarely has she been as emotional in public as she was Wednesday,
Doctor’s dream of creating muscular dystrophy treatment unfulfilled Bonsett watched nearly all the children slowly die.
U.S. wholesale prices ticked up just 0.2% in July, the latest sign that inflationary pressures are largely in check.
Jack Phillips, who has led Roche Diagnostics’ North American operations in Indianapolis since 2010, will become chief operating officer of Accelerate Diagnostics in Tucson.
The move is part of IU Health’s way to address the state’s high infant mortality rate and keep all newborn services under one roof.
The annual rankings, now in their 30th year, are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making decisions about where to get care.
If we don’t get serious about the concerns preventing Indiana from moving forward, we will continue to sit at the bottom and be unattractive to anyone looking to relocate their families or businesses.
In the wake of the May closure of The Hendricks County Flyer, Grow Local Media is expanding its own Hendricks County paper.
After building and selling three companies and starting a fourth, Dr. Don Brown thought he had seen it all. Even so, he still gets an occasional surprise.
The landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of years of liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s, sparking a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths and addiction.
While the price of almost any good or service can be found online, most Americans don’t know what they’ll owe for a prescription medication until they get it.
Money will go toward such uses as collecting more timely data on overdoses treated at emergency rooms and enhancing the state’s prescription-monitoring program.
The new stalled rule would require applicants to have the state health department, not the BMV, sign off on an individual’s attempt to be recognized on their driver’s license or state ID as anything other than their gender at birth.
We are currently entertaining changes in policy that sound good or intuitive but are not necessarily data-driven and evidenced-based.
Since the first pager was patented in 1949 and used in New York’s Jewish Hospital, millions of doctors have done their daily rounds in hospitals with the gadget clipped to their waistband, always ready to hear the beep that might signal a medical crisis on the other end. But hospitals are now phasing them out.