Beginning next year, Americans will be required to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a fine. After this “individual mandate” — part of the comprehensive healthcare reform law passed in 2010 — ...

A TikTok video from January told people that most hospitals are required to provide financial assistance, including free care, to people whose income falls under a certain level. Yes. The Affordable ...

Alexis Lewis was a 22-year-old trying to do everything right. She was enrolled at a local community college in Knoxville, Tennessee, with dreams of being a nurse while working two jobs, earning just ...

In 2018, senior executives at one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to ...

She has several hospitals nearby, but no clear way to compare them. That’s until she learns of a new free tool called ...

The practice of hospitals receiving massive tax breaks and then billing patients who should receive free care "is not something that really should be allowed," said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown ...