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Crackdown on deceptive billing can transform health care | Opinion

When patients walk into a hospital, they expect care, compassion and honesty — not a bait-and-switch billing scheme. Yet that’s exactly what happens far too often across the country, as hospitals ... Read More

A record number of Americans are anxious about health care costs going into next year

The West Health-Gallup survey finds almost half of adults say they’re worried they won’t be able to afford health care in 2026. Read More

Transparency Reveals Health Care Prices—And A Billing And Payments System In Need Of Overhaul

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ... Read More

US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities, and that’s no accident – a public health historian explains how the system was shaped to serve profit and ...

Zachary W. Schulz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ... Read More

Overbilling at women's health care group padded profits while costing patients, doctor says

When seven expectant mothers in Palm Beach County had their babies delivered by midwives at Florida Woman Care, one of the largest female health care operations in the state, the cost should have been ... Read More

Access to Treatment Is a Severe Barrier for Patients With Mental Illness: Michael McGuire, PharmD

Michael McGuire, PharmD, reviewed Mental Health America’s recent publication on the current state of mental health in America and addressed socioeconomic barriers in access to care. Michael McGuire, ... Read More