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MEDICAL BILLING NEWS
Keep abreast of news and information on medical billing and its impact on patients and consumers.
2024, September
In North Carolina, a state hard hit by the national crisis of medical debt, Terry Belk has spent 20 years struggling to get free of "this ... anvil I'm dragging around."
- NBC News
Patients could be spared huge, unexpected bills for ambulance rides under a new plan aimed at closing a gap in the surprise billing law.
- AXIOS
Jessica Staten went to PeaceHealth’s St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Washington, for an outpatient procedure and received a $5,313.63 bill. After being told she didn’t qualify for a hospital financial assistance program to lower the cost, she says, she used her condo as collateral to secure a line of credit to pay off the medical debt.
- KFF Health News
The surgery to repair Ray Dietrich’s torn muscles went well. About eight hours after he arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, he was on his way home to Ocean County on a February evening hoping that two years of constant pain had been alleviated. But another pain surfaced three weeks later. A hospital bill — for $25,000.
- northjersey.com
Giving birth can be exciting, scary, magical, painful, and many more things all at once. But what it can also be is expensive, especially for people in the US.
- Bored Panda
Debt due to medical and dental bills is a widespread issue in the United States, affecting both uninsured and insured adults.
- KFF
An MRI can cost $300 or $3,000, depending on where you get it. A colonoscopy can run you $1,000 to $10,000. Economists cited these examples of the roulette wheel of health care prices in their request that Congress mandate hospitals and health providers be upfront about their prices for medical care.
- USA Today
Corporate hospital systems and their rapid consolidation are wreaking havoc on our local economies, and Missouri is no exception.
- The Missouri Times
Patient says same treatment in Mexico would cost 10%.
- LMT Online
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found that debt collectors are using illegal tactics, and it is taking steps to ensure they follow consumer financial protection laws.
- PYMTS
One in four people who get a medical bill they disagree with are able to get a fix, a new study finds.
- Every Day Health
Caitlyn Mai thought she did everything right. She called ahead to make sure her insurer would cover her cochlear implant surgery. She thought everything went according to plan but she still got a bill for the full cost of the surgery: more than $139,000.
- KFF News
Newly published research surveyed American adults to find out how they handle troubling medical bills. It concluded that advocating for one's self can pay off when it comes to medical bills, and one may be missing out on financial relief when one doesn’t pick up the phone.
- The Conversation
The advocacy group comprised of physician firms like TeamHealth and Envision has issued the provider industry’s latest salvo against insurers over surprise billing.
- HealthcareDive
The Office of Health Care Affordability is a relatively new board tasked with reining in high health care costs and is now zeroing in on Monterey County hospitals.
- KSBW
I checked into the hospital to deliver my son in 2022. After a couple of days in the hospital, my husband and I brought our son home, elated. And then, about six weeks later, we got a bill that was more than $20,000.
- What To Expect
Caitlyn Mai thought she did everything right. She called ahead to make sure her insurer would cover her cochlear implant surgery. She thought everything went according to plan but she still got a bill for the full cost of the surgery: more than $139,000.
- KFF News
The bill would provide state-level oversight and require hospitals to maintain a publicly available list of standard charges; require lists to be displayed in a prominent location on the home pages of hospital websites, according to memos accompanying the bill; and prohibit non-compliant hospitals from acting via debt collectors and from reporting a patient’s case to a consumer reporting agency.
- The Daily Item
Hospitals persistently spread the myth that they are losing money on Medicare in order to justify large markups to patients with private coverage. The facts tell a different story.
- Third Way
The law requires health insurance companies to reimburse for ambulance services that are not part of a person's coverage plan.
- Shelby County Post