New Orleans has joined forces with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization, to forgive the medical debts of tens of thousands of city residents, Axios reports. For many, medical...
States are increasingly taking steps to allow greater hospital consolidation even as federal policymakers seek to increase oversight over these mergers, according to Axios. Some states, like Mississippi and...
Maternal mortality rates in America are rising, especially among Black mothers. Now, leading members of the Congress have put forward legislation aimed at reversing this troubling trend. Last month,...
Resolve, a medical debt solution company, is working to assist health care consumers in North Texas, according to D Magazine. North Texas – Tarrant and Dallas counties in particular...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans has temporarily blocked a lower-court ruling that struck down free preventive health care services covered by the...
The number of consumers who have skipped or delayed medical care due to cost has risen since 2020 and 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Survey, as reported by...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis reported by Axios found that if a debt ceiling bill with Medicaid work requirements were to be signed into law, nearly 2...
Most Americans lack the ability to cover an emergency expense of $400 or more, according to a poll conducted by Morning Consult and reported by Bloomberg. Less than 50...
Bipartisan legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would extend federal antitrust oversight to nonprofit hospitals. According to Fierce Healthcare, the Stop Anticompetitive Healthcare Act would grant...
The federal No Surprises Act, which went into effect last year, has had a number of benefits for consumers. But its implementation has also resulted in bureaucratic and legal...