Generic drugs save customers approximately $200 billion a year, but are they just like the name brands? Gina Pera, a journalist and ADHD watchdog, spoke with 8 On Your Side
When Amanda Griffith welcomed her third child in May 2014, she was expecting to pay some out-of-pocket costs. After all, she had a high-risk pregnancy, which required additional monitoring and
It pays to question your medical bill. In January, I received a bill for a Saturday visit to my primary care doctor employed by Big Health Care System that occurred
IN THE WAKE of faculty members sharp objections to Harvards imposition of coinsurance and deductibles on nonunion employees health insurance, announced last September, President Drew Faust promised to provide data
How much money could you come up with in a medical emergency? For most people, a few thousand dollars would be difficult to find. Unfortunately, many medical bills run a
It’s likely happened to you. A week or so after a routine doctor visit, you get an outrageous bill, charged for things you didn’t even know would cost you. Its
One popular strain of healthcare article considers how a common medical procedure costs X in the United States and Y in Germany (or Japan or France or Brazil), with the
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed nation. Having a baby here costs more than it would in any other country. Yet Americans lead far shorter
Last week, Dr. Pearl kicked off a three-part series on economic biases in medicine. His first installment revealed how money motivates bias in medical research. Today’s article follows the money
Medicare managers ongoing efforts to avoid duplicate payments to health care providers could benefit from improvements to post-payment reviews by contractors, a recent audit found. The Centers for Medicare and
