Patients and doctors are bypassing insurance for faster, simpler care — a trend highlighting a desire for relief from ...

Cash-based clinics, or direct primary care, are becoming more popular as health care spending skyrockets and quality of care ...

Doctors say insurers are automatically downgrading their claims and paying less. Insurers say it’s their duty to prevent overbilling. In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager ...

The physician lobby surveyed 64 medical societies and found that most of them were worried about nurses, physician assistants ...

Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale. The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two ...

Dr. Lorna Shanks said she became a primary care doctor because she wanted to care for patients. Instead, she found herself overwhelmed by rushed patient visits, endless paperwork and constant staff ...

For years, we’ve been told that the healthcare system in America is just the way it is: complicated, inefficient and built more for insurance companies than for actual patients or doctors. But ...

Canton-area residents report care delays because of prior authorizations and denials. The Ohio State Medical Association has recognized physicians' growing discontent with third-party administrative ...