NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Between 2015 and 2019, insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace became increasingly less affordable for middle-class families, a new study finds. An analysis of data from the American Community Survey (ACS) revealed that while the median family income among middle-class families rose 3.5% from 2015 to 2019, […]
A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction on behalf of religious health care providers who feared the Biden administration would interpret the Affordable Care Act as requiring them to perform abortions or gender-transition treatment against their conscience. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had argued that it doesn’t require religious providers to […]
Monday, April 5 is the official start of a US law requiring healthcare organizations to provide patients with free, full, and immediate electronic access to their doctor’s clinical notes as well as test results and reports from pathology and imaging. The mandate, called “open notes” by many, is part of the 21st Century Cures Act, […]
Positive findings from frozen sections of a first temporal artery biopsy can effectively identify giant cell arteritis, ruling out in those cases the need to perform a second biopsy on the contralateral side and arguing against the use of simultaneous bilateral biopsies, according to results from a retrospective study of nearly 800 patients who underwent […]
