In recent years, hospitals of every stripe have opened obstetrics emergency departments, or OBEDs, which means healthy patients get bills for emergency care they didn’t know they got.
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Germany’s limits on how much patients pay out-of-pocket at the doctor’s office have been critical to ensuring people get needed care, especially in a mining region where many battle lung diseases and chronic pain.
A review of cases found nine felons or people with fraud convictions who then had access to federal health care money despite being excluded for alleged or confirmed wrongdoing.
Medicare Advantage, a fast-growing alternative to original Medicare, is run primarily by major insurance companies—which have been routinely overcharging Medicare by billions of dollars.
Private equity is rapidly moving to reshape health care in America, coming off a banner year in 2021, when the deep-pocketed firms plowed $206 billion into more than 1,400 health care acquisitions.
As Americans are overwhelmed with medical bills, patient financing is now a multibillion-dollar business—with profit margins topping 29 percent in the patient financing industry.
The story of how Knoxville’s Black residents came to be its primary victims of medical debt is written in the city’s changing landscape.
Kansas voted this year to keep abortion legal. Now Michigan is one of five states asking voters to weigh in on abortion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Medical debt can sink a person's credit score so low that qualifying for loans, and applying for jobs and apartments can become a harrowing experience.
In 1992 Congress passed a law committing the drug industry to pay so-called user fees to help fund the FDA’s drug approval process. Big Pharma has used that law to corrupt the FDA by funding nearly half its annual budget.
Many hospitals have grown wealthy, spending lavishly on advertising, team sponsorships, and even spas, while patients are squeezed by skyrocketing medical prices and rising deductibles.
A Federal judge basically said that using the Preventive Services Task Force (a nongovernmental volunteer advisory panel) recommendations to compel the offering of free services violates the Constitution.
Dani Yuengling researched how much a needle biopsy of a lump in her breast might cost. The hospital website showed it would be about $1,400 for someone without insurance. Her final bill was nearly three times that.
For-profit private equity groups buying up rural hospitals has resulted in horror stories of poor patient care, drug shortages and shut downs.
RIP Medical Debt is freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time—buying bundles of delinquent hospital bills and then simply erasing the obligation to repay them.
Big Pharma lobbyists spent enormous sums of money to defeat the Inflation Reduction Act which includes restoring Medicare's authority to negotiate drug prices. Thankfully, their opposition did not work this time.