Imagine youve been denied employment because of something in your medical history. You and your doctor cant figure it out, until you do a little digging into your paperwork. Turns
More than half of Americans say they are sometimes or always confused by medical bills, possibly because few patients are offered cost estimates of treatment before they receive it. These
When it comes to health care, you must often act as your own (or a family members) advocateensuring you understand your diagnoses and treatments while pushing for the highest quality
arlier this year, I got an unpleasant surprise in my mailbox. A $820.19 surprise, to be exact. This was a bill from MedStar’s National Rehabilitative Network, where I’d recently completed
The cost of a medical procedure depends much more on where it takes place than which doctor performs it. According to Change Healthcares latest Healthcare Transparency Index, the fee that
Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Streets second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under
A medical bill is a shocker, even for those with insurance coverage. An emergency-room visit with multiple tests can cost as much as a car. Major surgery? Think mortgage-sized sums.
No expenditure can hurl you toward financial ruin as quickly as medical bills. Medical debt is a major factor in the filing of consumer bankruptcies. And it often invades your
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a report that unwittingly pinpoints a growing problem: the lack of actionable information that patients need to become effective health-care
Despite the news last week that America’s healthcare spending will not be rising at the sky-high rate that was once predicted, the fact remains that the U.S. far outspends its
