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Some rural hospitals have canceled — or are considering ending — contracts with insurance companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans, saying the private policies jeopardize their finances and impede patient care.

The struggling mental health services provider in Vancouver hopes the new CEO will help address financial problems and reopen facilities

State officials defend their work. But conflict-of-interest concerns raised about two members of a state review board — as well as the consultant leading its efforts— show that shortcomings of a high-stakes state program have not been addressed, a former state health official says.

Mobile Crisis Services of Lane County works to deescalate people experiencing mental health crises and connect them with social services, sometimes in cooperation with law enforcement, and hopes to expand its services to 24-7 this summer.

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight alone.

Providers say audits are unfairly demanding costly repayment of very old claims — but health insurers say the proposed new rules would be unworkable

From halting diversity programs that benefit disabled workers to making federal staffing cuts, the Trump administration has taken a slew of actions that harm people with disabilities.

The federal watchdog was suing pharmacy middlemen for allegedly driving up the cost of the drug diabetics rely on. But now there are no commissioners to hear the suit.

The Senate-approved version removes enforcement provisions.

Records show leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff not to release experts’ finding that the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging