Barbara Feder Ostrov

As hospital chains and insurers across the U.S squeeze one another, hoping to increase their market share, many patients are...

In California, the flu has struck early and hard this season. Health experts aren't sure why. The state's higher temperatures...

Medicaid was never intended to cover long-term care for everyone. Now it pays for nearly 40 percent of the nation's...

A nutrition app may not be the top priority for someone who struggles to pay for groceries. But cellphones have...

Veterans can visit 14 CVS MinuteClinics in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, Calif., for simple care, lab tests...

Medicare now pays doctors $86 to discuss end-of-life care in an office visit that covers topics such as hospice, living...

Updating antiquated diagnosis codes is supposed to make medical billing more accurate, but doctors and insurers say right now it...

Nearly half the states in the U.S. require that women be notified if mammograms detect that they have dense breasts....