As the COVID-19 Omicron variant spreads globally, experts fear a new wave of coronavirus infections, which would mean a lot more tests—and a lot more surprise bills. The New...
Higher penalties for hospitals that don’t disclose their prices to consumers may not sway some of the nation’s largest health systems to comply, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. The...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Roman, who suffers from several rare diseases, was able to easily connect with specialists up and down the East Coast with telemedicine. To prevent...
Erica Plybeah grew up watching her grandmother struggle with Type 2 diabetes. For her mother and grandmother, a lack of transportation in the rural Mississippi Delta where they lived...
Data compiled by Kaiser Health News showed that Montana nonprofit hospitals gave roughly eight percent of their total annual expenses toward community benefits, such as covering the treatment costs...
New government data, reported by Healthcare Dive, shows that Medicare telehealth visits increased 63-fold from 2019 to 2020, serving as a valuable tool in ensuring access to care during...
Kaiser Health News reported that research and data from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and others confirmed that not only are Black consumers more likely to contract COVID-19,...
Research conducted by John Hopkins and Michigan State universities, and reported by The Wall Street Journal, shows that some hospitals charge up to ten times as much as others...
Shannon Harness, a military veteran in Colorado, rushed to the closest hospital after waking up with severe pain in his abdomen. A CT scan at Rockies Regional Medical Center...
A California woman who exhibited COVID-19 symptoms in the early days of the pandemic and unsuccessfully sought a COVID-19 test was still billed nearly $2,000, according to NPR. This...