When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get h...
Time magazine this week is out with a mammoth, 24,000-word story on the state of the U.S. health care system written by Steven Brill. According to the story, Brill spent seven months researching why health care costs so much in America.
How you die -- and what it costs -- depends largely on where you get care. That's the revelation of a major national database widely regarded as the b...
A New York City pedestrian who was struck and injured by a police car was sent a sorry apology from the New York Police Department. Jesse Zorski, a...
Have you been putting off going to the doctor? Apparently, now there’s a fee for that. Doug Rischbieter of Arnold, Calif., made an appointment wi...
As tens of millions of Americans are paying off medical bills over time, the potential for damaged credit is great. Many government agencies are beginning to take notice. Unfortunately, the consumer credit reporting industry is fighting efforts for consumer protection every step of the way.
The problems just keep piling up for the nation's most famous collector of hospital debts. Accretive Health, the Chicago-based debt collection comp...
A North Carolina man is fighting a hospital to keep legal guardianship of his son. Freddie Lempe, 18, of Smithfield, North Carolina, has been in a...
The death of a child is something no parent ever wants to face. And reliving such a traumatic experience in order to settle a medical bill would seem ...
On Monday, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill into law that changes how uninsured patients are billed after receiving hospital treatment. Senate...
CHICAGO -- What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator – or...
NEW YORK -- Patients at a New York City hospital are getting billed for tens of millions of dollars because of a computer error. Unemployed doorman A...
A court-ordered body cavity search could cost one New Mexico woman more than $1,000. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, the woman, who is not b...
Faith Ozan is furious about her son's hospital bill. She claims that Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital charged nearly 3,000 percent more for drugs used t...
