Analysis: 68% of patients with bills of $500 or less didn’t pay full statement in 2016
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) An increasing number of patients fail to pay their full hospital bills, according
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Medicaid expansion had a ‘close to zero’ net effect on nonprofit hospital finances, report finds
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) While the ACA’s Medicaid expansion lowered uncompensated care costs for nonprofit hospitals, those
Read MoreBoston insurance co-op to shutter, transition to for-profit entity
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Boston-based Minuteman Health, one of the last remaining nonprofit co-op health plans created
Read MoreGallup: Healthcare costs top Americans’ financial concerns
(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) Americans named healthcare costs as their top financial anxiety in a Gallup poll administered in
Read MoreRoutine DNA Sequencing May Be Helpful And Not As Scary As Feared
(By Rob Stein for NPR) Advances in technology have made it much easier, faster and less expensive to do whole genome
Read MoreTake Our Quiz To Test Your Wits On Aging
As we get older, it helps to tickle the noggin’ with trivia. Here’s a pop quiz to see what you have
Read MoreThe Cost of Health Care: The Importance of Knowing What’s Ahead
(By Gerry Hafer) At the center of just about every conversation in Washington these days is one topic: the Health
Read MoreCould The Best Memory System Be One That Forgets?
(By Andrea Hsu for NPR) Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our
Read MorePennsylvania Legislature takes aim at balance billing
(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Pennsylvania lawmakers crafted two bills with bipartisan support that would protect patients from
Read MoreHealth Care Providers—Especially Hospitals—Are Paying Attention to this Demographic
(By Gerry Hafer for Good Sense News) Call them the meat in the sandwich, the volumes between the bookends, or
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