Steward Health, a hospital system once backed by private equity, filed for bankruptcy this year and has begun closing hospitals and laying off thousands of employees in multiple states....
A new KFF analysis shows that those enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans have in-network access to just 40% of the doctors near their homes, Axios reports. Though...
Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing an aggressive plan to wipe away medical debt for millions of Americans, according to CNBC. Americans together owe more than $220 billion medical...
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (Cost Plus), founded by billionaire investor Mark Cuban, is looking to disrupt the health care industry, particularly focused on pharmacy benefit managers’...
This year’s Medicaid redeterminations put health coverage at risk for millions of Americans. But as KFF Health News reports, some states chose to mitigate this risk by expanding Medicaid,...
More than 12,000 consumers have accused insurers and providers of not complying with the No Surprises Act, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),...
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon decide on the merits of a 50-year-old federal law which stands in the way of allowing states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)...
Lawmakers in two states – California and Massachusetts – want to slow private equity’s expansion into health care, The Wall Street Journal reports. Often, when private equity firms acquire...
According to a recent poll by the Commonwealth Fund, nearly half of insured, working-age adults received an unexpected medical bill or copayment in the past year, per a report...
Nonprofit hospitals in Indiana continue to use predatory debt-collection practices against consumers, even those who owe as little as $250. Meanwhile, charity-care spending at these hospitals has stagnated, according...