cost and quality

For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that’s changing — but there’s a vigorous debate over what hospitals are disclosing.Under a…

When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year, a pre-operative X-ray found irregularities in her chest.As a smoker for 40 years, Chestnut was at high risk for lung cancer. A specialist in Los Angeles…

Una joven madre de Antelope Valley, en California, baña a sus hijos y los viste con ropa impecable, asegurándose de que tengan el mejor aspecto posible en las citas médicas. “Les cepillo los dientes antes de ir al dentista.…

A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical appointments. “I brush their teeth before they see the dentist. Just…

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said.Less than a month…

Wes Thompson, administrator of Valley View Home in the northeastern Montana town of Glasgow, believes the only reasons his skilled nursing facility has avoided the fate of the 11 nursing homes that closed in the state last…

Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered.Soon, though, Crabtree…

Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to a Tennova Healthcare hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee, in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about miscarriage, but this seemed like one.In the emergency…

Se está acabando el tiempo para las vacunas contra covid, los kits de prueba caseros, e incluso algunos tratamientos, gratuitos.La Casa Blanca anunció este mes que la emergencia nacional de salud pública, declarada a…

Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments.The White House announced this month that the national public health emergency, first declared in early 2020 in response…