A South Carolina woman with health insurance was charged over $5,000 for a breast biopsy, more than 3 times what an uninsured patient would be expected to pay for...
Nearly 17 percent of consumers enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid may lose their enrollment status in these programs when the COVID-19 public health emergency...
Privately-insured consumers are seeing health care costs rise faster than those on Medicare, according to an analysis from Altarum and reported by Axios. In July 2022, consumers with private...
The New York State Legislature has passed a set of bills giving consumers added protection from medical debt collection practices, according to the Kiowa County Press. Lawmakers have passed...
A year and a half after Congress passed the No Surprises Act, the Biden Administration has finalized the process for settling billing disputes, Axios reports. The legislation was passed...
Inflation is expected to start impacting employer health care costs next year, according to Healthcare Dive, costs which could trickle down to employees. A recently released report indicates employers...
The U.S. plans to shift costs for COVID vaccines and treatments back to health insurers, costs that could eventually make their way down to consumers, according to Axios. White...
After resisting for more than a decade, states with Republican-led legislatures are showing new openness to the idea of expanding Medicaid, according to Axios. In North Carolina, Georgia, Wyoming,...
Of the 63 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in the U.S., less than a third are fully complying with federal price transparency rules, according to a JAMA Surgery...
A study conducted by the health care consumer advocacy group Patient Rights Advocate, and reported by Healthcare Dive, found that only 16 percent of hospitals are adhering to the...