A Jacksonville woman posted on Facebook a $3,000 hospital bill for an MRI of her foot. “Paying $3,000 for something that costs $400 … pretty absurd,” she wrote. For Floridians, knowing how much a ...

The Patients' Bill of Rights is stalled in Congress over patients' right to sue their HMO's. When health plans make mistakes, John McCain and the Democrats want them held to account for big damages in ...

Washington is embroiled in another high stakes battle over how to best manage medical care. Doctors, lawyers and consumer groups insist on patients' rights to sue their insurance plans when things go ...

Patients’ finances can be devastated by lawsuits, especially with the interest charges, lawyer fees, and court costs.

Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out that she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency ...

Hospitals can charge patients hundreds of dollars in facility fees — even for routine outpatient appointments. Some residents of Florida’s Treasure Coast have had enough. PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — When ...

MEDICINE LODGE, Kansas — Sarrah Miller and her husband, Kyle, live in a rambunctious household filled with children in a rural town of about 1,700 people. Last month, a knock on the door interrupted ...

Ascension Wisconsin and UnitedHealthcare are in contract negotiations, with Ascension warning it could go out-of-network Oct. 1. Ascension says rates are too low, while United argues Ascension’s ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched a digital tool that allows patients to compare hospitals based on quality metrics. HealthLocator is a free tool that uses publically available CMS data on ...

The Medicaid Primary Care Improvement Act would allow states to contract directly with direct primary care (DPC) practices, ...