This year, Arizona removed 150,000 people from its Medicaid rolls, more than 75 percent of whom were removed solely for filing errors, according to Arizona Public Media. At the...
Eighteen states in the U.S. have as many as a quarter of their residents carrying medical debt, according to a new Commonwealth Fund study reported by Revcycle Intelligence. The...
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and published in JAMA Pediatrics found that hospital mergers corresponded to a loss of inpatient pediatric...
California and New York are taking steps to further monitor health care mergers, introducing measures that empower state attorneys general to block deals and establish robust review processes, Axios...
Health insurance is worthless if consumers don’t know what medical procedures or medications are covered, yet often consumers, through no fault of their own, are unaware of what an...
An uninsured consumer, with unstable housing and no permanent address, never received a bill for her emergency gallbladder surgery. Yet two years later, she was served with a lawsuit...
New York and Delaware are the latest states to extend postpartum coverage under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to HealthcareDive and WMDT-ABC. In both states,...
Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit international rights group issued a report that calls on the U.S. government to protect consumers from nonprofit hospitals that engage in predatory billing practices,...
The Senate Finance Committee has introduced the Patients Before Middlemen Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry, Fierce Healthcare reports. The legislation aims...
According to a KFF survey, a majority of consumers with health coverage face various obstacles when accessing care, causing some consumers to skip or delay needed medical treatment, The...