Healthcare

The D.C. Council has given final approval to its medical debt overhaul, sending the Medical Debt Mitigation Amendment Act of...

A bipartisan package moving through the Michigan Legislature would create a new Medical Debt Protection Act and channel violations of...

Roughly 3 in 10 working-age adults reported their families were carrying medical debt at the end of 2025, a figure...

Commercial healthcare costs are projected to rise 9% in 2027, the highest medical cost trend in nearly two decades, according...

The federal government has a new suggestion for patients facing crushing out-of-pocket medical costs: borrow the money from their health...

Americans are taking on debt, skipping treatments, and going without prescriptions because of healthcare costs, and a new national survey...

A new essay published in STAT by Darshak Sanghavi, a pediatric cardiologist and chief medical officer at Machinify, argues that...

One in five privately insured Americans were denied coverage for doctor-recommended care last year, and for a sizable share the...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other federal agencies have finalized a long-awaited rule meant to reduce the...

The Department of Health and Human Services reshuffled one of its most consequential enforcement arms this week, a move that...