An uninsured consumer, with unstable housing and no permanent address, never received a bill for her emergency gallbladder surgery. Yet two years later, she was served with a lawsuit...
New York and Delaware are the latest states to extend postpartum coverage under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to HealthcareDive and WMDT-ABC. In both states,...
Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit international rights group issued a report that calls on the U.S. government to protect consumers from nonprofit hospitals that engage in predatory billing practices,...
The Senate Finance Committee has introduced the Patients Before Middlemen Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reforming the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry, Fierce Healthcare reports. The legislation aims...
According to a KFF survey, a majority of consumers with health coverage face various obstacles when accessing care, causing some consumers to skip or delay needed medical treatment, The...
A recent survey conducted by KFF and reported by Axios reveals that a significant number of insured adults seeking mental health services face difficulties finding therapists or accessing treatment....
Nonprofit health care organizations SCAN and CareOregon recently granted $345,000 to RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit debt relief organization, which was used to erase millions of dollars in medical...
The New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to create the first of its kind “health care accountability office,” which will allow city residents to compare hospital prices of procedures...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is urging the state of North Carolina not to pass a bill they say would reduce competition among health care providers, according to Healthcare...
Colorado has taken a significant step towards health care price transparency with a new law fining hospitals that fail to post their prices in easily accessible formats, according to...