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NewsThe price of healthcare should not be a moving target
It's time the healthcare industry stopped discriminating against patients. Yes, you heard that right. At a time when healthcare is supposed to be more patient-centric, the patient is being left Read more...
Patient sues over balance billing
A man sued Washington University in St. Louis, alleging the university's doctors and other healthcare providers routinely overbill for medical services, the St. Louis-Dispatch reports. The suit filed Read more...
Balance billing interpretations focus of legal battle
A balance billing dilemma in Washington state has doctors and insurers going head-to-head in court over whom ultimately is responsible for paying physicians for emergency room care, reports the Read more...
Prime Healthcare settles balance-billing lawsuit for $1.2 million
Prime Healthcare, which operates 13 acute-care hospitals and three medical groups in Southern California, on Monday agreed to a $1.2 million settlement for a 2008 lawsuit brought by the state for Read more...
'Bad faith' stipulation in Texas medical bill concerns mediators
Determining "bad faith" may be bad news for Texas residents who hope that mediation can help them come to a settlement on unexpected medical bills. A new Texas law allows a legal mediator to step in Read more...
CA Supreme Court rules against balance billing
The balance billing battle in California is nothing new; in fact, it has been going on for years now. However, there's been a lot of uncertainty as to how things would turn out. Now, California's Read more...
Balance billing ban upheld
In yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of balance billing, a judge in Sacramento recently affirmed state regulations looking to protect consumers from the practice. Last month, physicians in Read more...
CA balance billing battle misses the point
This week, providers decided to sue over California's new rules barring balance billing. Providers--especially emergency department doctors--argue that they have to get their fees somewhere, and that Read more...
California balance billing ban challenged in court
California physicians were already up in arms about the new ban on balance billing before it even went into effect. So it's little wonder that they have wasted no time in challenging the ban in Read more...
California bans balance billing
Capping years of debate, a new law just went into effect in California banning balance billing, a landmark measure that may further shift the balance of power in the direction of health plans. Read more...
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