A recent Commonwealth Fund survey ranked nine wealthy countries by various measures of health care access. The survey, according to reports by Fierce Healthcare, highlighted significant shortcomings in Americans’...
From Kentucky to Utah, states are redetermining their residents’ eligibility for Medicaid, and according to KFF Health News, many consumers are being disenrolled from the program solely for procedural...
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...