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Community With High Medical Debt Questions Its Hospitals’ Charity Spending
PUEBLO, Colo. — As 41% of American adults face medical debt, residents of this southern Colorado city contend their local nonprofit hospitals aren’t providing enough charity care to justify the millions in tax breaks they receive.…
Doctors Hesitate to Ask About Patients’ Immigration Status Despite New Florida Law
Fearful of risking their jobs, jeopardizing state funding for their institutions, and further politicizing health care, Florida hospital leaders have been reluctant to speak out against a new law that requires them to ask about…
Patients in California County May See Refunds, Debt Relief From Charity Care Settlement
Molly Castle Work
California’s largest public hospital plans to start notifying 43,000 former patients Monday that they may be eligible for refunds or billing corrections, part of what advocates called a major legal settlement that will…
Proposed Rule Would Make Hospital Prices Even More Transparent
“How much is the ice cream?” A simple enough question, featured on a new TV and online advertisement, posed by a man who just wants something cold. A woman behind the counter responds with a smile: “Prices? No, we don’t have those…
Parents See Own Health Spiral as Their Kids’ Mental Illnesses Worsen
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing “988,” or the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741.
After her teenage daughter attempted…
Promising Better, Cheaper Care, Kaiser Permanente’s National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism
As regulators review Kaiser Permanente’s proposed acquisition of a respected health system based in Pennsylvania, health care experts are still puzzling over how the surprise deal, announced in April, could fulfill the managed…
North Carolina Hospitals Have Sued Thousands of Their Patients, a New Report Finds
North Carolina hospitals — led by the state’s largest public medical system — have sued thousands of their patients since 2017, according to a new analysis that sheds additional light on the aggressive tactics U.S. hospitals…
Feds Say Hospitals That Redistribute Medicaid Money Violate Law
The Biden administration wants to crack down on private arrangements among some hospitals to reimburse themselves for taxes that help fund coverage for low-income people. It contends the practice violates federal law.
Federal…
Funyuns and Flu Shots? Gas Station Company Ventures Into Urgent Care
TULSA, Okla. — When Lou Ellen Horwitz first learned that a gas station company was going to open a chain of urgent care clinics, she was skeptical.
As CEO of the Urgent Care Association, Horwitz knows the industry is booming.…
Lo que hay que saber para no perder Medicaid
El sistema de seguro médico de la nación está en plena convulsión: cerca de 8,2 millones de personas necesitan encontrar nueva cobertura desde que terminaron en abril las protecciones para los beneficiarios de Medicaid por la…