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...
The 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study conducted by Cedar, a patient financial platform, found that most Americans are worried about the cost of their health care, according to reporting...
A new study conducted by the Urban Institute, and reported by KFF Health News, found that millions of Americans are benefitting from policy changes that have removed some medical...
Russell Gosselin is one of the nearly 750,000 New Yorkers with medical debt. Although he has cancer, he is delaying critical treatment for fear of going further into debt,...
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...
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...