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Health care providers, nursing home representatives and patient advocates say Medicare Advantage plans increasingly are ending members’ coverage for nursing home and rehabilitation services before patients are healthy enough to go home.

It’s no secret that government spending has been out of control for years. But come December, Congress will have a golden opportunity to stem the tide of red ink.

Despite the threat of burnout and isolation, these young medical graduates are passionate about rural health, however, they say, a damaging stigma needs to change.

Three in four family doctors say they are burnt-out, and most practice owners fear they will close their surgeries due to mounting costs, a survey finds.

Washington (AFP) - One advertisement on Facebook promises zero-cost dental care for elderly Americans hit hard by rising medical bills.Another, on Instagram, offers free groceries in exchange for an email and phone number.

The 2010 pay-as-you-go law is poised to require $100 billion in spending cuts just after this year's holiday season.

For more than a decade, Republicans riled up their base with vows to repeal Obamacare. Today, nothing but crickets

Health insurers will flood the Medicare Advantage market again this fall with enticing offers of plans that have no monthly price tag

Savannah Thompson walked into the emergency department at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, just after midnight June 14, fearing she had ingested fentanyl — a synthetic opiate responsible for a North America-wide epidemic of fatal overdoses — in what she had been told was cocaine, according to…