A private equity firm’s controlling stake in a struggling Massachusetts hospital chain has left the system in worse shape after ten years of ownership. Today, the hospital system is...
Multiple government agencies are launching a coordinated public inquiry into the control and influence exerted by private equity firms in the health care industry, according to Healthcare Dive. The...
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairperson Lina Khan recently offered heavy criticism of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), accusing them of failing to fully cooperate with the agency’s probe into potentially...
An emergency room visit for dehydration resulted in a $5,000 bill, coming as a shock to the consumer that received this bill, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams,...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking on a larger role to confront the pervasive issue of medical debt, intensifying its efforts to shield consumers from predatory health...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating UnitedHealth for alleged antitrust violations, according to The Wall Street Journal and Healthcare Dive. Not only is UnitedHealth the largest private health...
Most hospitals across the country are still not compliant with federal price transparency laws, according to a study conducted by Patient Rights Advocate (PRA) and reported by Healthcare Dive....
A New Jersey woman spent over six years fighting a $225,000 hospital bill for a pacemaker according to NorthJersey.com. Seiko Bando was admitted to the emergency department at Christ...
A bipartisan letter from 39 state attorneys general calls on Congress to take “decisive action” to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Healthcare Dive reports. The letter was sent...
The Foo Fighters recently partnered with health care advocacy organization Power to the Patients, performing a private concert in Washington, D.C. for members of Congress, their staff, and health...
Curbing Medicaid Disenrollment and Protecting Vulnerable Populations | Consumers for Quality Care
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, a now expired federal emergency declaration prevented states from removing patients from the Medicaid system, even if they no longer met the program’s eligibility requi...
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A study published recently in The Journal of the American Medical Association, and reported by Healthcare Dive, found huge disparities in what consumers covered by Humana Insurance across various...
New Survey Highlights America’s Medical Debt Crisis | Consumers for Quality Care
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A new report is highlighting the depths of America’s medical debt crisis, which often leads to consumers delaying care for fear of going further into medical debt, according to...
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One of America’s most famous hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic, is under scrutiny for how little charity care it provides to consumers, according to Axios. In 2021, the Cleveland Clinic...
Michigan County Aims to Wipe Millions in Medical Debt | Consumers for Quality Care
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Oakland County, Michigan is partnering with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to use $2 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to eliminate medical debt...