Rising patient acuity due to delayed healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to significant growth in hospital costs, according to a report from the American Hospital Association...
Patients with chronic diseases face higher amounts of medical debt and are more likely to face adverse financial outcomes compared to patients with no chronic disease or just one diagnosis, according...
Healthcare utilization goes up for patients who receive positive COVID-19 results because of post-COVID-19 conditions, according to a recent study.
The study published in JAMA Network Open earlier...
Less than one-third of hospitals with National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer center designation were fully compliant with the CMS hospital price transparency rule, according to research published in...
The share of out-of-pocket healthcare spending for patients with employer-sponsored health coverage increased by nearly 2 percent between 2013 and 2019, according to an issue brief from the Employee...
Just 16 percent of 2,000 hospitals reviewed as part of PatientsRightsAdvocate.org’s Semi-Annual Hospital Price Transparency Report are complying with the regulation requiring all hospitals...
EHRs revolutionized how healthcare providers deliver care. The technology has brought many providers into the digital age, enabling not only electronic medical records but also a host of other health IT applications. Now that most...
Complex coding structures in the US are driving up medical billing costs in the US, making it one of the most expensive countries to get paid, according to a new study.
The study published in Health...
National healthcare spending has declined for the first time in 60 years in the first quarter of 2022, with the country seeing a 1.7 percent year-over-year decrease, a research brief from Altarum...
There is substantial variation and low correlation in healthcare spending across Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans within different US regions, a study published in JAMA Network Open...
Despite experiencing negative operating margins, 340B disproportionate share (DSH) hospitals provided 67 percent of all uncompensated care in 2020, according to a report from 340B Health and...
Overall, the increase in healthcare spending in the US between 1996 and 2016 led to improved health outcomes, but healthcare spending effectiveness varied across the top 34 causes with high spending or...
Pregnant women enrolled in large group health plans incurred almost $19,000 more in healthcare costs and spent nearly $3,000 more in out-of-pocket expenses than those who did not give birth, a...
Health inequities account for around $320 billion in annual healthcare spending, a figure that could reach $1 trillion by 2040 if stakeholders do not act accordingly, according to data from...
Four in ten adults have medical debt, with nearly half owing $2,500 or more, according to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
The KFF Health Care Debt Survey reflects responses from...
Medicare and its beneficiaries paid significantly higher prices at provider-based facilities than they would have paid to freestanding facilities for the same services, according to a report from the...
Clinical waste, including failures of care delivery, failures of care coordination, and overtreatment, accounts for up to 15.7 percent of all healthcare spending in the United States, according to a...
A Tennessee court has developed an online dispute resolution platform to help residents negotiate solutions to medical debt challenges without filing a lawsuit.
Judge Alex McVeagh of the Hamilton...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authorized a lawsuit to block the proposed hospital merger between HCA Healthcare and Steward Health Care System, alleging that the transaction would increase...
Top-ranked hospitals are not complying with the CMS hospital price transparency rule, as many facilities have failed to report complete pricing data for common shoppable services, according to a report...
