Recent legislation signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul now prohibits medical debt from being included on consumer credit reports for New York residents, as reported by The Associated...
A partnership between KFF Health News and NPR called “Diagnosis: Debt” is highlighting deeply personal stories of medical debt, a crisis that wreaks havoc on 100 million Americans. Sharon...
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which includes a number of reforms to the health care sector aimed...
Although many hospitals in Maryland stopped suing patients over unpaid bills in 2023, many consumers, particularly those who can least afford it, find themselves struggling under the weight of...
Patients often lack access to hospital pricing information, and this lack of access, highlighted in a recent USA Today article, is driving America’s medical debt crisis. In January...
Revenue from a prescription drug discount program designed to assist low-income consumers is instead being used by some hospitals to turn massive profits, according to a study conducted by...
A recent opinion piece published in The New York Times by Dr. Amol S. Navathe, a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Co-Director of...
North Carolina recently joined 39 other states in expanding Medicaid, Healthcare Dive reported. After debating Medicaid expansion for more than a decade, state legislators found middle ground and broadened...
As states continue to redetermine their residents’ eligibility for Medicaid, many consumers who have been improperly disenrolled from Medicaid are also finding it harder to stay enrolled in other...
In Ohio, Democrats and Republicans have found something that they can agree on. The largely Democratic city of Cleveland and the state’s Republican Attorney General are joining forces in...