Emergency Rooms

The many options — particularly urgent care and free-standing ERs — can make the head spin. The wrong choice can mean big bills and even poor outcomes. Facilities have little incentive to clear up the confusion.

Doctors, consumer advocates, and some lawmakers are looking forward to a California lawsuit against private equity-backed Envision Healthcare. The case is part of a multistate effort to enforce rules banning corporate ownership of physician practices.

Trauma surgeons say that the weapons used in mass shootings are not new but that more of these especially deadly guns are on the street, causing injuries that are difficult to survive.

The facilities will offer Disney guests, workers and community members urgent and primary care minutes from the parks, seven days a week.

The number of emergency room visits nationally between March 29 and April 25 decreased 42 percent compared to the previous year, but the number of...

Freestanding emergency rooms are popping up all around the Tampa Bay area -- nine have opened in the past three years alone.Health care companies are…

An estimated 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes who were transported to hospital emergency rooms in 2016 and treated for a variety of...