Improving patients’ shared decision-making abilities in healthcare requires arming them with timely, accurate, patient-centered education.

The insurers’ pledge is the first step in a broader reform effort to simplify the administrative workflow and take paperwork out of the health care process, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers ...

Every healthcare provider, pharmacist and patient in the U.S. dreads saying or hearing the words, “You’ll need prior authorization for that.” Prior authorization is a bottleneck that slows down care, ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has changed its process for veterans to get medical care from non-VA providers, removing a requirement that a referral to community care be reviewed by another VA ...

The Joint Commission has published a guide to help healthcare staffing firms prepare for onsite healthcare staffing services certification. The Joint Commission’s Health Care Staffing Services (HCSS) ...

WASHINGTON — Vietnam veteran Jim Esposito, who retired to the Philippines from Oklahoma in 2010, receives spinal treatments and pain medication at the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Manila ...

Who gets access to Medicaid and subsidized health insurance – and who doesn't – is at the center of the government shutdown.