health care

Monday morning was unusually busy for the emergency room team at the Anne Arundel Medical Center.Ambulances arrived at the rate of five per hour. Nearly…

In the first of what it calls “regular updates on key metrics and information,” the state’s health insurance exchange announced today that 326 people…

Maryland’s new health insurance website may have been a victim Tuesday of its own success.A technical glitch delayed by four hours the official opening of…

When many states ease eligibility rules for Medicaid in January, the new enrollees are likely to include more men, whites and people in generally good health.

State officials, including Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown and Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein, today unveiled the paid advertising campaign for the…

With the new health care law on the horizon, the restaurant industry is looking carefully at the looming health insurance requirements. Some national chains are looking at ways of limiting the new law's impact on the bottom line, while other restaurant owners say the new law won't change much for them.

The success of the Affordable Care Act—here in Maryland and elsewhere—in part hinges on a simple result: the number of uninsured people who actually sign…

The most sweeping health care reform program since the 1960s is now within six months of its official launch. For better or worse, Maryland is among a…

States and the federal government have a big job to do when it comes to explaining to the uninsured how to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The success of the law will be judged in part by how many Latinos sign up.

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Jenny Gold of Kaiser Health News talk about the new proton beam therapy center being built near the University of Maryland Health…