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Patients at these clinics pay a fee of roughly $50 to $100 month and get easier, direct access to their doctor for routine care as often as they want for no extra cost.
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The ACA requires most insurance plans to cover preventive care, including many forms of contraception, without cost to patients — but not if they’re “grandfathered” plans, which predate the law.
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The regulations, proposed in June, ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.
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Advocates stress that patients shouldn’t be intimidated by the health system. If you’ve received a surprise medical bill, here’s what you should know.
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A man from Michigan was evacuated from a cruise ship after having seizures. First, he drained his bank account to pay his medical bills.
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Crowdsourcing has paid for honeymoon trips, graduation gifts and church missions to overseas hospitals. Now it has become a go-to for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares.
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After decades of unchecked mergers, health care is the land of giants, with huge medical systems monopolizing care in many cities, states, and even whole regions of the country.
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The Jane and Daniel Och Family Foundation donated to RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys unpaid hospital bills in bulk at a reduced rate and pays them off.
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Medicare was supposed to cover the entire cost of his procedure. But the anesthesia provider failed to file its claims in a timely manner and billed the patient instead.
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One North Carolina family's six-figure medical bill came from a state hospital. The attorney general, who is running for governor and says he's against high medical costs, tried to collect the debt.