More than 30 percent of Floridians report having serious financial problems, compared with 26 percent of adults nationwide. Digging into those poll numbers shows large medical bills can be ruinous.

Governor Rick Scott has raised the profile of balanced billing in the healthcare system and now the Florida legislature is trying to tamp down on it. A...

The Florida Legislature has killed a measure that would let doctors increase what they charge patients for copies of medical records to $1 a page.The…

The Internet allows savvy consumers to comparison shop for big ticket items. Those items may soon include medical procedures. The Florida House is ready...

Consumers skeptical about the real cost of health care will soon have a resource where they can ask and share with their neighbors the price of common…

The generic form of the blockbuster cancer drug is being shipped to pharmacies. The generic is likely to cost 30 percent less than the brand-name version, but Gleevec's price doubled in recent years.

A Senate budget panel last week approved a bill that seeks to increase transparency about health-care costs, but the measure drew pointed questions from…

Continuing to look for different approaches to health care, a House committee Wednesday approved bills that would require more transparency about medical…

A final report from Gov. Rick Scott’s Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding is recommending that Floridians should be able to find out ahead of…

Gov. Rick Scott's hospital commission is set to complete its work at a meeting Tuesday in Tallahassee.The Commission on Healthcare and Hospital Funding,…