Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has proposed cancelling medical debt for thousands of residents, according to the Yale Daily News. Under Gov. Lamont’s proposal, the state would use $20 million...
Carolyn Johnson, a health and science reporter for The Washington Post, thought she knew a thing or two about how to navigate the U.S. health care system. And then...
States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as federal protections enacted during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire beginning in April, according...
With the COVID public health emergency set to end on May 11, The New York Times has tips and guidance for consumers with different types of health insurance. While...
Permanently extending key telehealth provisions enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which became a lifeline for consumers who otherwise would not have been able to access the medical care they...
Montana lawmakers are considering legislation to increase the authority of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Service (DPHHS) to conduct oversight of nonprofit hospitals’ tax-exempt status, according...
A study of 2,000 U.S. hospitals’ websites, conducted by PatientRightsAdvocate.org and reported by Healthcare Dive, found that only around 25 percent were fully compliant with federal price transparency rules....
A family is calling for change after shining a light on predatory health insurance billing practices, according to ProPublica. Penn State University student Christopher McNaughton and his parents, David...
Physicians treating the newborn daughter of a Chicago family in their in-network hospital actually worked for a separate, out-of-network hospital, leaving the family with a bill of more than...
According to a recent survey conducted by AKASA and YouGov, and reported by Medical Economics, a considerable number of patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) reported experiencing issues with...