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Medicare benefit should ease seniors’ health-cost burden

In an effort to make Massachusetts “a more affordable state to grow older,” the Healey administration recently unveiled a new Medicare program that could...

Top pols uneasy about Steward-Optum deal

Elected officials are voicing skepticism about a planned deal to sell Steward Health Care’s physician network to for-profit insurer Optum, questioning whether it might...

Rapid rise in syphilis hits Native Americans hardest – Lowell Sun

Cecilia Nowell | (TNS) KFF Health News From her base in Gallup, New Mexico, Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who crisscross...

Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes – Lowell Sun

Harris Meyer | (TNS) KFF Health News Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay,...

Half of rural hospitals lose money, as many cut services – Lowell Sun

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | (TNS) KFF Health News In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse...

Frustrations bubble over at health care hearing

BOSTON — It’s harder to get a doctor’s appointment, hospital stays are longer and cost more, pharmaceutical prices are up, health plans’ overhead is...

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