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...
Although most seniors have health coverage through programs like Medicare and Medicaid, they are still collectively saddled with more than $50 million in unpaid medical debt, The Hill reports....
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter has proposed using leftover federal COVID-19 relief funds to erase millions in medical debt for residents, according to Axios. Medical debt has far-reaching implications...
Stephanie Arnold, M.D, details her experience in The American Prospect of working in multiple medical settings and seeing up close how the health care system and hospitals continue to...