A study conducted by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, and reported by Colorado Public Radio, found that two-thirds of respondents have skipped or delayed medical care in the last...
In Rhode Island, six insurance companies are asking for permission to raise premiums next year, but Rhode Island’s Attorney General, Peter Neronha, is calling on the state’s Health Insurance...
Health insurers are raking in big profits, not from their primary business, but rather from other services, like pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), physician networks, health-service businesses, and consumer-wellness divisions,...
In his book Your Money or Your Life, Dr. Luke Messac chronicles nonprofit hospitals’ long history of engaging in aggressive debt collection practices at the detriment of consumers, according...
Americans, particularly those under 50, are struggling more than ever to find and afford health care services, according to a new study conducted by Gallup and West Health, and...
Two million North Carolinians will have their medical debt forgiven under a plan recently approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to Axios. The plan...
One consumer recently detailed her ordeal in navigating complicated prior-authorization approval processes and hospital billing errors shortly after undergoing cochlear implant surgery, a procedure that had already been preapproved...
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) is working to learn more about the level of charity care and community benefits nonprofit hospitals are providing in...
Nonprofit hospitals are increasingly taking advantage of their tax status, according to recent op-ed by Elisabeth Rosenthal in The Washington Post. In addition to failing to provide adequate charity...
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released a report last week detailing how the anti-competitive businesses of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry hurts health care consumers,...