Executives from Rochester Drug Co-Operative, a drug distribution company, have been criminally charged in connection with the national opioid epidemic, NBC reports. The company’s former chief executive, Laurence Doud...
In a recent article, reporter Sarah Gantz highlighted the major trends she’s seen in the year since she began examining Philadelphia consumers’ medical bills for The Inquirer’s Philly Health...
When Christine Jaschinski’s husband, Wolfgang Faust, cut his thumb while working with drywall, she thought she was diligent in deciding where to take him. America’s ER was close to...
Photo by Heidi de Marco/KHN Krystal Hayden, the mother of 4-year-old Bentley, spent the recent holiday weekend worrying that this Easter may be his last, WKBW reports. “My heart’s...
Cheryle Reidel is no stranger to surprise bills. The first came after a 2012 cancer biopsy. The second, after an anesthesiologist and nurse billed her $2,600 for a procedure....
Laura and Adam Parkinson were happy about the birth of their son Nathan, last year. But just days after the birth the couple found themselves, like 57 percent of...
In 2017, not long after giving birth to her first child, Susan found out that she carries a genetic mutation that increases her lifetime risk of breast cancer to...
When the pain in Diane Conine’s stomach was so unbearable that she was throwing up and her urine was filled with blood, her daughter drove her to the emergency...
Priscilla Maldonado thought she was having a healthy baby boy after an uneventful pregnancy. But when she gave birth to her son, Ja’bari Gray, at Methodist Hospital in San...
Stephanie Sena was in the hospital being treated for sepsis and preparing to have half her foot amputated when her doctor came to her room and told her that...