Managed care strategies employed by insurance plans should have the goal of improving health outcomes for patients rather ...

The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is exhausting and wildly expensive — a rather apt metaphor for the health care system itself. But the confab also acts as a truth serum, as health care executives ...

In a dramatic show of physician support for deeper health reform - and for making a decisive break with the private insurance model of financing medical care - 2,231 physicians called today [Thursday, ...

There are hundreds of retainer physicians across the nation — 756 according to the most recently compiled list — that provide primary care to patients for a set fee, leaving out health insurance ...

Millions of Americans have faced the devastating reality of having to fight for the healthcare they deserve, even if they have health insurance. ZetrOZ Systems, makers of the sam® wearable soft-tissue ...

An initiative by insurance companies to reduce high-cost doctor visits could cause physicians to abandon private practice and work for big hospital chains, independent practitioners warn. They say the ...

CLEVELAND, Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisters of Charity Health System, a faith-based organization, announced today the launch of its subsidiary, Independent Physician Solutions (IPS), to offer ...

UCLA Health launches a new, doctor-designed Medicare Advantage Plan for L.A. County residents, offering a stable option with ...

We both lost our jobs as public health diplomats with the U.S. Agency for International Development last summer. Our ...