If you’ve been to the hospital at any time in the last several years–be it for a scheduled...
Health insurance
Telehealth services do not save money
Over the last several years, there has been significant investment in telehealth...
High-deductible health plans mean high risk
In a recent opinion piece for Stat news, Ashish Jha, M.D., describes his struggle ensuring the...
Beware of out-of-network ER bills
A new study by Zack Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals...
Check your medical bills before paying them
All it takes is a visit to the doctor and a few tests or pretty much any visit to the hospital and...
Insurers limiting drug coverage to keep people with costly...
When was the last time you heard of a health insurer advertising its first class cancer care, its...
Indemnity insurance offers little value
The Affordable Care Act put in place a series of requirements that all health insurers must comply...
Insurers denying some costly treatments patients need
Bob Tedeschi reports in Stat news on a growing trend by health insurers to deny some costly...
PhRMA fights states on drug pricing
Drug prices are rising at crazy rates; in 2015, almost one in three brand-name drugs saw a price...
Telehealth on the rise
Telehealth or telemedicine–the provision of care through telephone or digitally, including...