When Mika Moore’s doctor thought she might have internal bleeding, she went to an Orange County medical center for a pair of ultrasounds, The Los Angeles Times reports. Mika...
Photo by Heidi de Marco/KHN When Georgia resident Kim Lauerman, 57, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, her physicians started her on chemotherapy and wanted her to begin taking Neuogen....
When Norma Smith found out that she had stage-three multiple myeloma, which had spread extensively and attacked her bone marrow, she wanted to start treatments immediately. Smith and her...
Sixty-three year old Diane Roberts has worked for decades hauling trash in Merrimack County, New Hampshire. She would wake up before the sun, driving her 1988 Chevy dump truck...
John Hopkins Hospital has found itself under fire over its treatment of low-income patients after accusations that the hospital targets them for lawsuits to recoup unpaid medical debt, WAMU...
Real estate developer Kelly Doran, along with his company’s 250 employees, were covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, when the insurer denied a routine scan his...
Carrie from Georgia had a mammogram done every year and it was covered by her insurance. She recently needed to get a diagnostic mammogram as a follow up to...
Cristina from Florida was left frustrated after her son’s visit to the emergency room for breathing problems ended with a medical billing error, multiple bills, and a back and...
Elizabeth from Washington described her struggle to find a doctor in her insurance network to get treatment for an eating disorder. She talked about her disappointment when she thought...
Ashley from California described her family’s financial struggles with managing mounting medical bills as her mother’s health has deteriorated. With her mother’s many hospital stays and difficulty getting insurance...