A small hospital in rural Kansas ramped up its filing of debt-collection lawsuits against the residents of a 9,000-person county last year, according to The Wall Street Journal. ...
Health care mergers do little, if anything, to benefit consumers. In fact, these mergers have been found to decrease competition, raise costs, and reduce the quality of care, according...
There is bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill that health care mergers, consolidation, and acquisitions must be reined in, according to Healthcare Dive. Last month, the House Budget Committee held...
Consumers with chronic illnesses in Utah continue to deal with insurance providers using copay accumulator adjustment programs, CAAPs, to block access to life-saving medications, according to KSTU. Vince Massa...
Despite renewed interest earlier in the year from southern U.S. states to expand Medicaid, states like Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi ended their state legislative sessions without doing so, according...
According to UpNorthNews, many nonprofit hospitals in Wisconsin continue to see their profits increase and their cash reserves grow but are spending less on charity care and community investments...
UnitedHealthcare was recently fined $450 million by the Minnesota Department of Commerce for not properly reimbursing consumers for mental health care, according to Minnesota Reformer. State law requires insurers...
One couple’s ordeal with the costs associated with the birth of their daughter has convinced them to be a one-child family, according to KFF Health News. Their story shines...
A study conducted by RAND found that, on average, hospitals charged patients with private and employer-based coverage 254 percent of what they charged patients with Medicare for the same...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a new task force focused on scrutinizing health care consolidation and mergers, according to Fierce Healthcare. The Antitrust Division’s Task Force on...