The business practices of Medical Properties Trust (MPT), a real estate investment trust (REIT), demonstrates the caustic influence these business arrangements have on the health care system, The American...
The Biden administration is investigating how some hospitals redirect Medicaid funds from facilities that care for low-income patients to facilities that in some cases provide no Medicaid-covered services at...
Minnesota-based hospital system Fairview Health Services recently abandoned, for the second time, its plan to merge with South Dakota-based Sanford Health Services, according to the Minnesota Reformer. Fairview Health...
Patients and doctors are increasingly turning to social media to vent their frustrations when health insurance companies deny coverage. By using social media to share the pitfalls of prior...
Hospital consolidation and mergers have become more common in recent years, hurting consumers’ access to care and the quality of the care that they receive, according to KFF Health...
A new study from the think tank Third Way highlights how medical debt is hurting middle-class consumers in America, Axios reports. The study found that nearly 1 in 4...
Since 2017, North Carolina’s public hospitals have sued thousands of consumers, according to a recently published study by Duke University School of Law, KFF Health News reports. The report,...
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), California’s largest public hospital, is preparing to alert roughly 43,000 former patients that they may qualify for refunds or billing corrections, according to...
A new bipartisan effort, led by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is calling for stricter auditing standards into the tax-exempt status and charity care reporting...
A proposed rule could soon make it easier for consumers to get pricing information from hospitals, NPR reports. The advocacy group Patient Rights Advocate contends that hospitals are still...