Billing patients to email docs eased provider workloads

Charging patients to message their doctors through portals could reduce health worker burnout and modestly lightened clinicians' workloads at the Mayo Clinic, researchers said.

- AXIOS

Got an unaffordable or incorrect medical bill? Calling your hospital billing office will usually get you a discount

Disagree with that medical bill? It might be worth calling your hospital billing office.

- Yahoo Life

Never pay a medical bill without asking these questions first

If you think you’re being overcharged on medical bills, you probably are.

- Vox

Posting hospital prices hasn't brought down the cost of health care: Will Colorado's new approach work?

- Medical Xpress

“$12,000 To Change Sheets?”: Woman’s Extremely High Hospital Bill Leaves Folks Baffled

“I just got my hospital bill, I was in there for three days for a leg surgery, and I’m gonna read you the itemized charge list”

- AOL

It's really not the doctor

In my experience, few docs, cloistered as they are in their examining room, know how their billing proceeds, or even much of what occurs in their front office.

- The Union

Abusive medical debt collection is a problem. Here's what the feds are doing.

Debt collectors must comply with federal law, including not making harassing or abusive calls. Consumers can complain to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

- Commercial Appeal

Report: Most ambulance rides in Colorado billed out-of-network

Colorado's surprise billing law does not currently limit out-of-network billing for ambulance services, and new analysis shows the true costs to consumers and insurers.

- Kiowa County Press

Blue Cross Blue Shield Customer Shared How She Only Paid $40 When She Was Hit With A Huge Insurance Bill

- Twisted Sifter

Don’t blame insurers for what doctor and hospital cartels did to US health care

- The Hill

2025 New California Laws | Removing medical debt from credit reports

New California law seeks to change how medical debt is reported and used in credit decisions.

- CBS 8

23 People Shared The Most Outrageous Medical Bills They Ever Received

I asked the BuzzFeed Community to share a time when they received an outrageous medical bill despite the having insurance. The answers were both frustrating and disheartening.

- BuzzFeed

Patients blindsided by unexplained medical fees, prompting calls for billing transparency

A growing number of patients are getting hit with surprise bills from their doctor’s offices for unexplained charges or things that used to be free. It’s all leading to a lot of frustration and calls for more transparency.

- Spotlight on America

Sale of your doctor’s practice could cost you more

- HeraldNet

Patient says insurance only covered about $6,700 of $51,000 airlift bill

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Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

Health care sharing ministries advertise reimbursements for members’ medical bills. But they are largely unregulated, and most have restrictions on maternity coverage.

- NBC

'Bill of the Month': The series that dissects and slashes medical bills

Since 2018, "Bill of the Month" has investigated medical bills totaling almost $6.3 million — including nearly $2.8 million that patients were expected to pay out-of-pocket. Cited at statehouses, the U.S. Capitol, and the White House, the series has led to changes in health policy.

- NPR

Is It Even Worth Paying Medical Debt Under $500 if It Doesn’t Hurt Your Credit Anymore?

You may have heard that medical debt under $500 no longer hurts your credit. This change has benefited millions of Americans, but it’s also led people to wonder: If they don’t count against you, is there any reason to pay small medical bills at all?

- NASDAQ / Money.com

How much is your hospital bill? Ohio lawmakers require them to publish cost of services

Ohio hospitals will soon be asked to disclose the cost of medical care they provide to patients.

- Yahoo News / The Columbus Dispatch

PatientRightsAdvocate.org Calls on Gov. DeWine to Swiftly Sign Hospital Price Transparency Legislation

- PatientRightsAdvocate.org

Debt in the dark: UCHealth sues patients daily and some have no idea why

Months after 9NEWS Investigates uncovered the hospital giant's efforts to sue thousands of its patients every year, we now know more about how their efforts compare.

- 9NEWS

He Went in for a Colonoscopy. The Hospital Charged $19,000 for Two.

In June, at his doctor’s recommendation, Tom Contos of Chicago underwent a procedure that’s performed more than 15 million times a year in the United States: a colonoscopy. When the hospital charged nearly three times what it had estimated, he wanted to know why.

- KFF News