Value-based insurance design (VBID) in which consumer payments are waived for highly effective treatments, but are raised for less effective ones, could

An all-out campaign was waged Thursday by US President Barack Obama to drive his historic health care overhaul through Congress, wooing wavering lawmakers

Medicare payments to physicians for outpatient surgeries for bladder cancer have hit the roof and this has caused a surge in the number of such procedures

As average life expectancy increases, osteoarthritis (OA), which is one of the ten most disabling diseases in the developed world, is set to become more of a financial burden on health services.

The ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving has been examined in IPLoS Medicine/I, which has published

Despite being disproportionately low-income and uninsured, patients had fewer problems affording care and fewer instances of medical debt and inefficient care than most U.

The unparalleled opportunities that now exist for the palliative care community were explored by opinion leaders in the field of palliative medicine.

A report in the January issue of IArchives of Dermatology/I, one of the JAMA/Archives journals says that findings from a cost model suggest that expenses

A letter sent by the American College of Physicians (ACP) to key legislators has urged them to ensure that the final health care reform bill includes provisions to support the primary care workforce.

A survey by Watson Wyatt, a global consultancy firm, has found that many Indian companies are offering health coverage to employees in order to retain them.