Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s investigation into PeaceHealth, a nonprofit Catholic health system, uncovered inconsistencies in how its hospitals informed low-income patients about their eligibility for charity care,...
Casey McIntyre, a 38-year-old suffering from ovarian cancer, died last month. But before she did, she organized a campaign to raise money to help others pay down their medical...
Healthcare Dive reports that as many as 30 million consumers could lose Medicaid coverage in the 2024 fiscal year. This is owing to the expiration of COVID–era policies that...
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce health subcommittee recently advanced 21 proposals, some aimed at curbing the power of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Fierce Healthcare reports. These proposals...
A new investigative report from ProPublica highlights the unnecessary, and potentially illegal, tactics that health insurance companies use to make it difficult for consumers to obtain claim denial records....
A new Minnesota law forbids hospitals from collecting medical debt from low-income consumers until they have checked to see if they are eligible for financial assistance, according to CBS...
Nearly every state has been unsuccessful in handling Medicaid redeterminations, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights organizations and reported...
Efforts are underway in New York to prohibit medical debt from being included on consumer credit reports, as reported by Spectrum News 1. A bill awaits New York Governor...
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 requirements....
Despite a Michigan law that guarantees coverage for cancer drugs, health insurers have been found skirting the law, using loopholes to deny treatment for consumers in need. In the...