Months after the killing of a top health insurance executive unleashed Americans’ pent-up anger over denials of medical care, the industry announced Monday that it will take action to “streamline, ...

Former US public health officials are sounding alarms about significant changes being made to the country’s vaccine policy under the Trump administration.

Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cydney M. McGuire, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Racial and ethnic health inequities are ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Feb. 28 but has since been updated with additional industry group statements and other commentary. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 23, No. 5 (September 2008), pp. 361-368 (8 pages) Power, a concept at the heart of the health policy process, is surprisingly rarely explicitly considered in the ...

Instituted in 2005 in conjunction with the Indiana Dental Association and Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP), IUSD's one-day forum invites fourth-year dental students to prepare and present ...

When your doctor decides you could benefit from a particular test or procedure, your insurance company might require documentation to prove it's necessary before agreeing to pay for anything.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended a longstanding transparency rule on Friday, supercharging his authority to change policies in areas ranging from Medicaid to the ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public’s ...

Members of the World Health Organization are in the process of developing a new agreement to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics. A preliminary draft presented in February reaffirms nations’ ...

Portability of a health insurance policy gives policyholders the flexibility to switch to another insurer without losing ...