Hospitals must promptly report to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health every time they try to collect medical debt from patients, under an ordinance backed Tuesday by county supervisors.
The nation’s largest health care company pressed thousands of its clinicians to use a thinly tested medical device to screen people for artery disease, dramatically boosting payments from the federal government for years even though many of the patients were not sick, a STAT investigation found.
The national uninsured rate rose from 7.7% to 8.2% earlier this year, a result of states booting millions of Americans from their state Medicaid programs, according to new data from the CDC.
As many as 371,000 Alabamians could see insurance costs increase if Congress doesn’t pass a law extending enhanced health insurance subsidies provided under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Payers pushed nurses to run screening tests and add unusual diagnoses, turning the roughly hourlong stops in patients' homes into an extra $1,818 per visit, on average, from 2019 to 2021.