A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local...
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Listen to ‘Tradeoffs’: Medical Debt Delivers ‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’
The numbers that tell the story of medical debt in the U.S. are staggering: Around 100 million Americans have health care debt, and together they...
Seniors With Anxiety Frequently Don’t Get Help. Here’s Why.
Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated with considerable distress as well...
Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom
MIAMI — In hindsight, Nikki Ruston said, she should have recognized the red flags. The office in Miami where she scheduled what’s known as a...
A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk
A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she...
FDA Experts Are Still Puzzled Over Who Should Get Which Covid Shots and When
At a meeting to simplify the nation’s covid vaccination policy, the FDA’s panel of experts could agree on only one thing: Information is woefully...
Want a Clue on Health Care Costs in Advance? New Tools Take a Crack at It
Need medical treatment this year and want to nail down your out-of-pocket costs before you walk into the doctor’s office? There’s a new tool for...
Hundreds of Hospitals Sue Patients or Threaten Their Credit, a KHN Investigation Finds. Does Yours?
Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for...
In Connecticut, Healthcare is Expensive
We know that our country pays more for worse health outcomes than most comparable nations, however, do we know which state is most expensive? Well...
‘An Arm and a Leg’: He Made a Video About Health Insurance Terminology That Went Viral
Click here for a transcript of the episode. A 30-minute video about health insurance terminology has racked up more than a million views. ...
How Banks and Private Equity Cash In When Patients Can’t Pay Their Medical Bills
Patients who seek treatment at the Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, might be offered a payment plan from...
Supreme Court to Hear Nursing Home Case That Could Affect Millions
When Susie Talevski sued the agency that managed her elderly father’s care before he died, she hoped to get justice for her family. She did not...
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