medical bills

President Donald Trump on Wednesday instructed administration officials to investigate how to prevent surprise medical bills, broadening his focus on drug…

An air traffic controller is just one employee locked into the terms of a health plan because of the ongoing federal shutdown. It's meant his child's hospital bills are "out-of-network."

From Lyme disease prevention to $100,000 medical bills, here are 10 of NPR's most read U.S. health stories in 2018.

If implanted medical devices fail, patients and their insurers usually have to pay for repairs. That financial responsibility falls to them even when the problems were solely with the devices.

Medical bills can push patients over the financial cliff, but a new study says this may not happen as often as previous research suggests.Hospitalizations…

Elizabeth Moreno got hit with a $17,850 bill from a Texas lab after leaving a urine sample at her doctor's office. The lab had tested the sample for a wide range of legal and illicit drugs.

Several million people unlucky enough to face big medical bills not covered by their insurance would lose a valuable and versatile deduction under the…

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Lauren Carman, who used crowdsourcing to help pay medical expenses from breast cancer and delivering premature twins.

Medical bills can be incredibly confusing and difficult to read.But do you have a better idea?No, seriously, do you?Because federal officials want to hear…

Citrus, rape kits, credit card skimmers, synthetic drugs, life insurance, water, medical bills, racketeering and Iran.That is the short version of the…