Health Care

Health insurers may pay for preventive surgery but not for rarer genetic testing.

These afflictions could cause your life insurance rates to soar, but you can mitigate the risk.

While many Americans choose to forgo banks today, the new health-insurance law may pose problems to those without checking accounts. Here's why.

Insurers market an alternative to long-term care insurance -- learn the pros and cons of this coverage.

You may have ways to deal with pricey long-term care insurance besides bailing on your policy.

While the number has declined, a large segment of Americans with health insurance are still covered through their employers. As a result, many of the metro areas with low health insurance coverage have high unemployment rates.

Federal law mandates "zero cost" contraception, but don't put away your checkbook just yet.

Starting next year health-care reform will require most Americans to have health insurance. But how will Uncle Sam even know if you have coverage?

Health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, are a key component of health reform law, but few people know what they are and how they work.

Rising health costs will siphon a large share of retirees' incomes,??crimping their lifestyles.

It would be a happier, healthier world if we could add our extended family to our health plans. But health insurers have to draw the lines somewhere. Here's a look at those lines.

Some California residents may see increases of up to 30% on their individual health-insurance coverage costs, and experts say hikes like this may push some policy holders out of the system entirely.

A small cadre of doctors and individual medical providers are consistently the biggest recipients of Medicare dollars, new government data show.

A former Uber employee reportedly has plans to launch a similar on-demand service that could change the way we get health care.

Your trip to the doctor’s office could look dramatically different in the future as technology advancements continue to change the doctor-patient relationship and the office visit experience. 

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are handling more of your health care. Is that OK?

If you ask an elderly Veteran if they qualify for an additional pension from the VA to help pay for their long-term care costs, they will probably tell you, “I’m not eligible because I wasn’t injured in the war.” This is a common misconception, which keeps many Veterans from tapping into a benefit they deserve.

Due to a number of factors, including decades of generous underwriting and the current, lingering low interest rate environment, the long-term care industry is rapidly changing. 

Gov. Scott Walker agreed Monday to increase collaboration between researchers in Germany and at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to combat Alzheimer's disease and other similar ailments.

Spain says it has imported a U.S.-made experimental drug to treat a Spanish missionary priest who was evacuated from Liberia last week after testing positive for Ebola.