A state initiative launched less than 18 months ago has relieved more than 500,000 residents, eliminating an average of $1,200 per person.
States that had historically high immunization coverage are seeing rising exemption rates and declining vaccine uptake, posing new public health challenges for legislators.
Oklahoma puts its tobacco settlement funds in a trust, spending only the interest. The strategy has had long-term public health benefits.
Alabama’s central data repository enables coordinated action across health, law enforcement and governmental agencies.
New federal rules give states just months to begin spending and prove results to secure future funding.
For-profit programs proliferated as oversight lagged and exam pass rates sank.
The number of people buying health plans on Obamacare insurance marketplaces is down by about 833,000 compared with a year ago, according to federal data released this week.
The federal Rural Health Transformation Program will grant $50 billion to states to expand access to health care. Here’s where state applications stand.
New federal guidance calls for reducing the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 down to 11. At least 17 states have announced they’ll disregard it.
Officials hope the move helps them ease a doctor shortage.
Nurses from some of the city’s leading hospitals went on strike early Monday, with labor and management unable to reach a deal that would pay nurses more, provide better security and ensure minimum staffing.
The more flexible approach some doctors are taking clashes with traditional views of how to treat people with addiction.
Worker-owned cooperatives and direct-connect registries are reducing turnover and reshaping how older adults get care at home.
Applied behavior analysis has become one of Medicaid’s fastest-growing costs, prompting cuts that families say threaten progress.
Workers can access up to 20 weeks of combined leave, funded through a new payroll tax shared by employers and employees.
The new CalRx insulin will hit the market in January at $55 a month, part of a broader state effort to rein in drug costs.
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