Communicating bad news to patients is a challenging task that demands sufficient time to allow for an honest discussion that minimizes patient distress and responds to the patient's and family's ...

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and marketplace exchange components opened the doors for more Americans to secure health care coverage than ever before. That should be good news, right?

Troy Roth, vice president of revenue-cycle product strategy for MedAssets, discusses how hospitals can calculate how much is owed by patients with high-deductible policies. Troy Roth: More patients ...

On demand, not on hold — new research revealed the top hurdles that send patients running to a new doctor. According to a survey of 2,000 Americans who’ve been to the doctor within the last year, ...

Big Decisions on Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Focus on Clinical Care Updates and Patient Perspectives Communication in oncology was challenging long before the emergence of the US 21st Century Cures Act.

Physicians don't like delivering bad news to their patients any more than their patients like receiving it, studies suggest. For example, French researchers, publishing in the Journal of Clinical ...