Emergency patients might have a harder time getting admitted to the hospital than they anticipate. A new study examined over a million Medicare cases and found that hospitals often...
A new study found that some Colorado residents have skipped care due to fear of the costs, 9news reports. The study by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative examined the...
A Pennsylvania couple has paid a medical bill “in protest” after spending seven months trying to get the bill corrected, The Inquirer reports. Dave Southard got his first colonoscopy...
When Jeannette Parker saw a skinny and sick-looking stray kitten outside of Florida’s Everglades National Park, she decided to feed it some tuna she had in her car. The...
As consumers face rising premiums, high deductibles, and surprise bills, state lawmakers and national stakeholders are fighting to control health care costs for consumers. The Center for American Progress...
As the average cost of employer sponsored health care plans has tripled over the last two decades, ProPublica and NPR are examining the impact insurance brokers have had on...
Anthem’s controversial emergency department policy added confusion to the nation’s already confusing health care system. The policy, which CQC has previously reported on, allowed Anthem to retroactively deny coverage...
Florida-based Simple Health Plans and its CEO Steve Dorfman are at the center of an FTC suit that alleges they tricked consumers into thinking they were buying comprehensive health...
Consumers trying to avoid seeking treatment from out-of-network providers to prevent surprise bills often turn to their health plan’s provider directories. But a recent article from Fierce Healthcare highlights...
Recently divorced and facing financial trouble, Joseph Pero was in a self-described “dark place” in 2017. Then, he did the unthinkable and pointed a handgun at his own heart....