The Doctors Company plans to take specialty medical insurer ProAssurance private in a deal worth $1.3 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The Doctors Company is one of the largest ...

News that The Doctors Company is spending $1.3 billion to buy ProAssurance and take the specialty medical insurer private could be a sign of more consolidation among companies in the business of ...

In the beginning of the year, Dr. Terry Wagner’s office manager came to him and said “something weird is going on.” For weeks, the office manager told him, Wagner had been quietly underpaid by the ...

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This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: Our colleague Julie Wernau covers health and medicine. And for the ...

Georgia physicians are suffering from two ailments at the same time. On the one hand, they face the threat of frivolous malpractice lawsuits requiring them to practice defensive medicine. To protect ...

Health insurers are increasingly interfering in care, an NBC News investigation found. Doctors say the stakes are highest in cancer care, when delays can be the difference between life and death.

In the wake of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there has been an outpouring of grievances from Americans about the state of healthcare in this country, and the massive ...

Kim Albin has lost count of the number of times she’s had to battle health insurance companies over medications. Albin, who has been living with multiple sclerosis for nearly 30 years, said health ...

Legislation could help, said Robin Sparks, a Marysville cancer care advocate. Exhausting insurance policies have doctors quitting and patients abandoning care. MARYSVILLE — When doctors diagnosed ...