At Penn Medicine’s clinic where adults receive genetic counseling and testing, about 9% of patients are Black. By contrast, one in four patients at the cardiology and endocrinology clinics located in ...

A new study in the July issue of Health Affairs finds patients with low socioeconomic status use hospital and emergency care more often than primary care — a phenomenon that has been supported by ...

The complaint claims that the state illegally changed rules regarding income eligibility thresholds for the AIDS Drug ...

Generative AI is being pushed into healthcare – and diagnostic risks may deepen the class divide ...

The research adds to the evidence of an association between social determinants of health and poor health outcomes.

Michal Horný is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Low-income patients—and their healthcare providers—are less ...

It's often been said that almost everyone has a smartphone. Unfortunately, not everyone has the financial resources to use it. Assurance Wireless, a federal lifeline assistance program for wireless ...

Some hospitals are buying life-saving medications for pennies, then charging low-income patients, including many with disabilities, hundreds of dollars for these drugs. They do it every day under a ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was originally constructed so safety-net health care facilities could stretch scarce resources in caring for low-income patients. However, the program has experienced ...

Fifty health centers in Massachusetts, which serve a million patients a year, are straining under an "assault" from federal ...