Overarching the U.S. hospital payment system is each individual hospital's "chargemaster." The data shown in Exhibit 1, for example, were taken from the chargemasters of the hospitals featured in ...

Indiana lawmakers have discovered this legislative session that performing major financial surgery on multibillion-dollar ...

Real people. Real bills. These jaw-dropping medical costs show just how broken the U.S. healthcare system really is.

From a Tennessee physician sentenced to prison for his role in a $41 million Medicare scheme to Walgreens agreeing to a $350 million settlement, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that ...

The American Hospital Association has expressed its support for a proposed House bill to revise reimbursement rates for long-term care hospitals.  The Securing Access to Care for Seniors in Critical ...

“Despite being on notice for the underpayment issue, United has failed to properly pay the outstanding balance due on Medicare Advantage claims," says a complaint filed by the hospital in state ...

His study, "Impact of Hospital-Physician Integration on Medicare Patient Mix," found no evidence that hospital-employed physicians treated a higher proportion of complex patients, at least among ...

Provider-based billing was introduced in 2000 to improve access to care for patients on Medicaid and charity care. At the ...

Taware and Halnor were arrested on May 27, 2024, after the teen's blood sample test conducted parallel at the Aundh district hospital, apart from the Sassoon hospital, gave different results and ...

He fell on a patch of ice and slammed chest-first, collapsing a lung and requiring emergency surgery at a local hospital ... won’t cover the $30,000 bill he incurred, according to Dion.