Caitlin Owens

Medicaid funds could be tapped to help states struggling to house recently arrived immigrants.

States struggling to house recently arrived immigrants may have a new way to get financial help from the federal government: through Medicaid.

Health care is uniquely vulnerable to worker shortages as the U.S. population ages over the next decade, according to a new Moody's analysis.

Questions of how to approach drug addiction, mental health and homelessness are dividing the left.

Four years after COVID-19 emerged, the U.S. in many ways is far less ready for the next major viral threat, despite the pandemic era's significant scientific advances.

A new law meant to protect patients could inadvertently raise premiums, an analysis finds.

Tensions between hospitals and Medicare Advantage insurers are poised to keep growing as the program gets larger and the federal government takes a harder line on health plans.

Researchers are trying to understand the underpinnings of the disorders in hopes of tailoring medicines to patients.

The massive expansion of health insurance companies raises big questions about cost, quality and risk to the system.

Better-performing hospitals tend to be those that went big on outpatient care.