emergency medicine

Sandeep Swami tried to dispute a $1,300 “facility fee” with the hospital, his insurer, a bill-mediation service provided by his employer, and finally a debt collector. He didn’t win, but he learned valuable lessons.

Televisits took off during the worst days of the pandemic, but states are rolling back the temporary rules that facilitated them. That’s adding fuel to debates about states’ authority over medical licensing.

A Colorado Springs college student never learned the cause of intense pain that drove her to an emergency room, but she was billed $722 each time a nurse pushed a syringe into an IV.

Nowhere has HCA added trauma centers more aggressively or the fight over trauma center growth been more acrimonious than in Florida. It may offer a preview of what’s to come in Virginia and elsewhere.

It was a surprise even for a family of lawyers. A process called "subrogation" began with a Nevada family's health insurer denying their claim for an ER visit after their 9-year-old fell off his bike.

It was 3:35 a.m. and flames from a massive Northern California wildfire licked at the back of a Santa Rosa hospital.Within three hours, staffers evacuated…