Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isn’t just one condition. It’s a family of diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis that interfere with your breathing. In chronic bronchitis, ...

This study examines UnitedHealthcare’s Institutional Special Needs Plans and their association with hospital and skilled nursing facility use. Objectives: To evaluate the patterns of clinical service ...

President Obama has proposed that Congress create a new public health plan to compete with private health plans in a national health insurance exchange. The President says that Congress can create a ...

Health care consumerism is a term we hear when the national health care discussion leads to how to deliver quality employee health benefits within a sustainable cost structure. The goal of health care ...

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has unveiled an ambitious health care plan that is comprehensive in scope, sparse in detail, and therefore uncertain in its cost and savings estimates. His proposals focus ...

Health plans and providers are pushing back on a legislative proposal that would overhaul how the state pays for home care, stating that it would cost — not save — New York upwards of $3 billion, ...