Changes could touch 760,000 HMSA members and their doctors.

Direct primary care is a burgeoning business model that bypasses insurance. If widely adopted, it could lessen the state’s dire shortage of primary care doctors — or make things worse.

The union representing Hawaiʻi and California employees wants Kaiser to return to the bargaining table.

State pilot program to help connect people with services on Oʻahu expected to begin later this month for Molokaʻi and in February for Lānaʻi.

Neighbor islands bear the brunt of the growing shortage, which contributes to uneven costs and poorer care.

Even before President Donald Trump took office, transgender patients in Hawaiʻi were struggling to get insurance to cover some treatments. Now it’s getting worse.

Scientists say the problem is the president and his health secretary are often doing just the opposite by relying on preliminary studies, fringe science or just hunches to make claims, cast doubt on proven treatments or even set policy. 

The ruling instructs the FDA to consider relevant evidence the agency allegedly disregarded. In the meantime, the restrictions remain in place.

Many employees who are on strike in Hawaiʻi, California and Oregon point to the lack of staffing as the primary reason they walked.

The low immunization rate at Kauaʻi schools is tied to a rise in easy-to-obtain religious waivers.