While hospital financial assistance programs help protect low-income patients from overwhelming medical costs, a loophole in the system has left many with unexpected bills, even when they qualify for ...

Quinn Cochran-Zipp went to the emergency room three times with severe abdominal pain before doctors figured out she had early-stage cancer in the germ cells of her right ovary. After emergency surgery ...

Non-profit hospitals are held to high standards on charity care provided to indigent populations, but in North Carolina, profits at some of those hospitals are overwhelmingly higher than the charity ...

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ROCHESTER — Mayo Clinic has entered into a settlement agreement with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office after an investigation of the health system's charity care practices. The report, released ...

For everyone in healthcare, from patients to hospitals to medical professionals, the challenge is who pays the bill.

When Deborah Hernandez went to the hospital in December of 2023 with abdominal pain, she wasn't expecting a cancer diagnosis or what would become a year-long struggle to pay down the resulting debt.

A co-founder of a Bradford restaurant chain has been named the first official ambassador for the Bradford Hospitals Charity.

Several hospital systems are considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after the New Jersey Supreme Court rejected their claim that inadequate compensation for charity care was an ...