Nevadans flocked to the state’s online health insurance exchange ahead of a midnight Monday enrollment deadline to at least begin the signup process. At midday, exchange officials said as many as 5,700 individual users were accessing the website at one time.
A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama’s health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system. After early stumbles, the website is up and running again.
It’s happening increasingly in American life — men acting as caregivers.
A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
The health district board approved a $61 million budget for 2015 on Thursday. This includes budget cuts of up to $6 million, which could equate to 50 to 60 layoffs, board Vice Chair and Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers said.
Larry Basich’s health insurance nightmare has ended. Insurer Health Plan of Nevada said this morning that it has agreed to cover Basich retroactively to Jan. 1, concluding a four-month saga during which he ran up more than $400,000 in uncovered medical bills.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are close to striking plea agreements for imprisoned Dr. Dipak Desai and his former clinic manager, Tonya Rushing, in the federal health care fraud case stemming from the Las Vegas Valley hepatitis C outbreak, the attorneys said Wednesday.
He hadn’t even come into the world yet in the ’70s when the first test tube baby was born, when CAT scans were invented.
More than 10,000 Nevadans who may think they have health insurance through Nevada Health Link actually aren’t covered at all.
The hospital bills are hitting Larry Basich’s mailbox. That would be OK if Basich had health insurance. But he doesn’t. Thing is, he should be covered.
It won’t be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
It had been a staple of medical journals and long covered in the health pages of newspapers: If a woman has either a defective BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, prophylactic surgery can decrease the average 65 percent risk of developing breast cancer to about 5 percent.
Whether they are frightened of going without medical care, angry about not receiving their insurance cards or trying to prove a point, Nevadans increasingly say they are weighing legal action over the rollout of Nevada Health Link, the state exchange through which they can buy coverage to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.
Wesley Warren Jr. , who attracted worldwide attention for his problems with a scrotum that grew to 132 pounds by the time he had it surgically removed last year, died Friday at University Medical Center. He was 49.
A dying 7-year-old boy who is suffering from a viral infection could receive an unapproved medical treatment as early as Wednesday after a drugmaker struck a deal with U.S. regulators to provide the medicine.
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