Health Care Industry

Missouri lawmakers this year passed the No Patient Left Alone Act as a result of some patients being unable to have visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Months later, the impact of the law is likely dependent on a future health emergency.

Democrats say the expansion will lower health care costs by reducing care administered at emergency rooms, while Republicans argue it will incentivize illegal immigration and overburden the state’s health system.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care was seen as a fringe movement that wouldn't work as well as in-person visits. All that has changed in the past year.

It didn’t take a pandemic to prove that the U.S. health care system is broken, but this year’s COVID-19 outbreak certainly provided more evidence of what we all knew. To fix it, we need to “change the entire game,” says Rita Numerof, president and co-founder of the health care consulting firm Numerof & Associates.

Washington University’s Adia Harvey Wingfield, who is a professor of sociology, has long been interested in the ways that race, class and gender influence…

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is calling for Congress to do more to curb sharp increases in prescription drug prices. The Missouri Democrat on Monday…

Original story from 03/08/18; updated with audio from St. Louis on the Air segment on 03/09/18.Updated at 5 p.m., with comments from an industry analyst —…

When St. Louis cardiologist Paul Hauptman got a call from a 25-year-old patient who couldn’t afford to buy his prescription for a generic drug to treat…

Your doctor can refer you to a specialist … but what if she could refer you to free legal help, too?In St. Louis, attorneys for Legal Services of Eastern…