Jonathan D. Epstein Two new health care centers are on the way to Buffalo’s East Side – one for preventive and specialty care, one for mental health – as a pair of nonprofits seek to replace their current outdated facilities with larger operations....

A consortium of San Francisco health officials and nonprofits is pushing for California legislators to permanently enshrine access to nutritious food as a covered benefit under the state’s Medicaid program. The California State Assembly Committee on Health will...

A nationally recognized expert on Medicare, Lyndean Lenhoff Brick was the founder and CEO of a health care consulting firm and served as the chair of the Illinois Hospital Licensing Board for more than 20 years. “Lyndean’s health care clients absolutely loved her, not...

Last month, at two Mississippi health care centers, I saw one of the best aspects of our state – medical providers and volunteers working with faith leaders to help their fellow man. It was my honor to work together with other members of the Mississippi delegation to...

Bankruptcy still carries stigma. So Rhonda, a 48-year-old single mom in North Carolina who filed for bankruptcy, just wants us to use her first name. Her story starts in 2006; she’d taken a job with higher pay but no benefits. “The bulk of my medical debt came from —...

Insurance companies have long blamed private-equity-owned hospitals and physician groups for exorbitant billing that drives up health care costs. But a tool backed by private equity is helping insurers make billions of dollars and shift costs to patients. The tool,...

Facing a space squeeze in having to serve a patient population larger than the town in which it is situated, a Monroe-based health clinic is poised to expand after landing some federal dollars.  In the small town of Monroe — population less than 700 — many...

The sites also can see patients quickly, a big difference from many psychologists’ offices, which have wait lists averaging three months or even longer for appointments. Anxiety monsters—crafted from tissue boxes, paints and pipe cleaners—help children manage their...

A ‘Mornings with Maria’ panel reacts to the March jobs report, the Fed’s expected rate cuts, inflation, A.I. stocks and Biden’s 2025 budget proposal. The U.S. economy continued to add jobs at a solid clip in March, as strong hiring in health...

Three weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case that will decide the fate of emergency medical exceptions to Idaho’s abortion ban, dozens of supporters of the law have weighed in — including numerous conservative think tanks,...