Last month, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University and Crouse Health System dropped their planned merger after mounting pressure from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Healthcare...
U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) recently introduced the Hospital Transparency Compliance Enforcement Act, a bill that would increase penalties for hospitals that do not adhere to federal price transparency...
During a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing, lawmakers discussed the lack of transparency from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as Congress looks to potentially pass reforms this legislative session, Fierce...
More consumers than ever are delaying medical treatment because of high health care costs, according to a recent Gallup poll reported in The New York Times, which found that...
Although federal price transparency rules are in effect for both insurers and hospitals, a study conducted by Health Affairs, and reported by Fierce Healthcare, found that much of this...
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, as reported by The New York Times, found that Black women in America, no matter their income or wealth,...
A California couple was charged over $200,000 for a single visit to the emergency room for rabies shots after encountering a bat in their home, according to ABC 7...
North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell has issued a series of new reports highlighting how executive pay among the state’s nine largest health systems has drastically increased at the...
A shortage of professional mental health providers, coupled with systemic barriers instituted by insurance companies not accepting mental and behavioral health specialists in their network, prevent many Nevadans from...
A study from the JAMA Network, as recently reported by Healthcare Dive, found that consolidated health systems cost consumers much more than independent hospitals and practices. This is the...
Couple Receives $200K Bill for Rabies Shots | Consumers for Quality Care
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A California couple was charged over $200,000 for a single visit to the emergency room for rabies shots after encountering a bat in their home, according to ABC 7...
Another Voice: The state’s nonprofit hospitals are failing New Yorkers
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I urge New York’s elected representatives to do everything in their power to hold nonprofit hospitals accountable to their communities, Donna M. Christensen writes.
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Montana lawmakers are considering legislation to increase the authority of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Service (DPHHS) to conduct oversight of nonprofit hospitals’ tax-exempt status, according...
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A study of 2,000 U.S. hospitals’ websites, conducted by PatientRightsAdvocate.org and reported by Healthcare Dive, found that only around 25 percent were fully compliant with federal price transparency rules....
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Permanently extending key telehealth provisions enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which became a lifeline for consumers who otherwise would not have been able to access the medical care they...