State officials and leaders at Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital have raised alarms over potential Medicaid funding cuts, ...

Economics correspondent Paul Solman is exploring the impact on communities in Massachusetts after a private equity firm bought struggling hospitals. In his second report, he looks at how private ...

Panelists discuss how treatment failure in uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) creates substantial economic burden through direct costs of additional health care visits, repeated diagnostic ...

Overall, it looked pretty healthy, with a 4.2% unemployment rate, 80.4% of the prime-age population employed and 1.9 million ...

The Economics and Ethics of Healthcare is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Few data exist on the overall economic burden of DVT and PE and their ... adjudicated medical and pharmaceutical claims for U.S. health care-plan enrollees. Resource utilization and annualized ...

Johnson signed Medicaid into law, expanding social welfare to reduce racial and economic health care disparities. For nearly 60 years, Medicaid has been a lifeline for millions of low-income ...

These benefits reflect the increased economic productivity of healthier, longer lived citizens and reduced health care costs. Cleaner air and a healthier economy go hand in hand (2). This article will ...

In southern Colorado and throughout the state, local hospitals and health systems help support healthier communities and ...

Beyond examining just healthcare costs and spending, healthcare economics examines the allocations of medical professionals, strains on healthcare resources and resource planning, and improving ...