Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.
Medicare Advantage − the private option that costs taxpayers extra and requires prior approval − is the default for some state agencies and corporations.
Colorado enshrined the right to abortion in its Constitution, but it still requires minors to seek consent from a parent.
Nurses face alarming rates of violence at work. These attacks too often go unreported, and they are fueling burnout and rampant turnover across the profession.
A survey of hundreds of Floridians found that nearly two-thirds of non-US citizens and one-third of US citizens hesitated to seek medical care.
How much oxygen does the military need for wounded soldiers? Turns out not much. Military-civilian research is paving the way for new developments.
Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.
Rather than finding efficiencies and saving money all around, the private companies that administer the Medicare Advantage option to Medicare are profiting at seniors’ – and taxpayers’ – expense.
In the absence of clear-cut regulation, who should decide on where and how a technology that could change the course of human health should be applied?
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