Compared to the U.S. government’s efforts to forgive student debt, which impacts 42 million Americans, little public attention has been paid to the health care debt crisis. According to...
Although federal rules aimed at providing price transparency are already in effect, the vast amount of data already collected by insurers is not organized in a format that would...
A woman who thought she had resolved her medical debt from a stay in the ICU a decade ago was surprised to learn last year she owed $40,000 in...
Recent cost shifting strategies that limit what costs count towards a consumer’s insurance deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums is further straining consumers with chronic diseases, Fierce Healthcare reports. With the...
According to Healthcare Finance, the House of Representatives recently passed the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022, extending Medicare telehealth flexibilities through 2024. These flexibilities were put in...
A new analysis from Morgan Health and NORC at the University of Chicago, and reported by Axios, finds that racial and ethnic disparities exist for the more than 150...
Cook County, IL, which encompasses the greater Chicago area, plans to forgive $1 billion in medical debt for hundreds of residents, according to Medical Xpress. The Cook County government...
A new documentary is shedding light and calling for action on the epidemic of Black maternal mortality, according to The New York Times. The documentary, titled “Aftershock”, highlights the...
Last month, John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight,tackled mental health care in our country, specifically, how the system is broken and ways in which we unsuccessfully try...
While nonprofit hospitals get billions of dollars in tax breaks in exchange for providing charitable support to their communities, a new analysis found that some nonprofit hospitals may only...