Jeffrey Young

Mark Eustis, the president CEO of a Minnesota hospital company under fire from state and federal authorities for allegedly harsh tactics its employees and the debt-collection company Accretive Health used to obtain money from patients, is leaving the firm.

Fairview Health Services, which operates a chain of nonprofit hospitals, announced...

No one at the hospital ever said Bruce Folken's medical care would suffer if he didn't pay up, but it sure felt that way.

Folken, 62, went to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minn., on March 23 with high blood pressure, heartburn and a tingling sensation on the left side...

Employees at Minnesota hospitals that contracted with Accretive Health repeatedly complained about the company's methods of getting money from patients during a period when the state's attorney general says people were being hounded over bills.

"We are giving the image that we are money-hungry," said one employee in an internal...

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire for allegedly hounding hospital patients over unpaid bills, has hired former President George W. Bush's top health official as part of a campaign to restore its battered reputation.

Leavitt Partners, a consulting firm chaired by former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary...

Health care costs for a family of four covered by workplace health insurance will exceed $20,000 for the first time ever this year -- $20,728 to be precise -- according to a new study released Tuesday. That's $1,335 more than in 2011.

A family of four will pay $5,114 in...

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire from Minnesota and federal officials for aggressive tactics to squeeze money from hospital patients, is striking back at critics.

In a rebuttal to accusations made by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson (D), Accretive Health flatly denied it has violated federal or Minnesota laws...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants his Democratic colleague Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to lay off hospital debt-collector Accretive Health, which is based in the Windy City.

Accretive Health is under fire from state and federal officials for allegations that it improperly pressured and harassed patients for money -- even...

Even having good health insurance is no guarantee of getting the best health care. Ashlie Hubbard learned this the hard way after the birth of her daughter, who has special needs.

Hubbard and her family are covered by the health plan her husband, Jason, receives from his job...

Health care costs have even the wealthy worried.

According to a new survey commissioned by Nationwide Financial and conducted by Harris Interactive, 46 percent of people 55 or older who have assets of at least $250,000 and plan to retire by 2020 say they are "terrified" that health...

Oregon may have found a way to improve the health care it provides poor residents while saving money. The federal government has agreed to give the state $1.9 billion to try it out.

The roughly 600,000 people enrolled in the state's Medicaid program, called the Oregon Health Plan, will gain...

Health care in America costs more than in other industrialized nation and we aren't even getting the world's best care for our dollars, according to a new study.

The United States spent $7,960 per capita on health care in 2009, the most of 13 industrialized nations in the...

Government regulators are looking into reports of aggressive debt collectors hassling patients at hospitals.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday that her department is "looking into" allegations that "aggressive contractors were confronting patients in the hospital setting, not making it clear that they were...

Health insurance agents and brokers will no longer be getting paid to tell sick people about a government-backed health insurance plan that can't turn them down.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is ending a program at the end of this month that gave $100 to agents and brokers...

Hospitals in North Carolina are taking debt-collection to a whole new level.

Certain North Carolina hospitals sued 40,000 patients for unpaid bills between 2005 and 2010, including bringing a $200,000 case against a Vietnam veteran whose leg was amputated.

These nonprofit hospitals are supposed to...

A debt-collection agency that reportedly worked to obtain money owed by patients inside U.S. hospitals should be investigated by federal authorities, a California congressman has said.

Rep. Pete Stark, the senior Democrat on the subcommittee that oversees Medicare and other health care policies, has asked two federal health care agencies...

Want some cash back from your health insurance company? There's a good chance your or your employer might be getting some because of health care reform.

That's because health insurance companies will have to pay out more than $1 billion in rebates to customers this year for...

Jobs are the number-one source of health insurance coverage for Americans, but fewer employers are offering health benefits to their workers and more employees are becoming uninsured, a new survey shows.

In 2010, 67.5 percent of U.S. workers had jobs that included health benefits, down from 70.1...

Next time you're at the hospital, be on notice: The person taking down your information and admitting you for treatment might not be a hospital employee but a staffer from a debt-collection agency.

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit against a debt-collection agency called Accretive Health in January after...

If you need to have your appendix removed in California, it could cost you as little as $1,529 or as much as $182,955. What's worse, there's practically no way to predict the size of the hospital bill, a new study shows.

The researchers determined that the median price...

A program meant to reward health insurance companies for delivering high-quality care is wasting billions of dollars, according to a government report released Monday, first reported in the New York Times.

Created by the health care reform law, the government initiative pays bonuses to private insurers...