Healthcare costs were listed as most significant financial burden by 31 percent of GOBankingRate.com survey respondents. 

After many seemingly “routine” doctor’s appointments, many Americans receive their bill and try to make sense of the many ins-and-outs of deductibles, co-pays, reimbursement rules, and paperwork. They face a whirlwind of complexities that have nothing to do with buying healthcare.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas vetoed part of a Medicaid budget bill that that would have ended the subsidized insurance for more than 250,000 people, saving the first-in-the-nation hybrid Medicaid expansion.

State legislators have passed a bill which would define performing an abortion as “unprofessional conduct” by a physician.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on a proposed hospital quality measure for antipsychotic use in older patients in the inpatient setting. 

Inpatient admissions increased slightly at some of the largest for-profit hospitals in 2015.

Safety standards and oversight need to be overhauled, according to an agency-appointed task force.

A former Capital Blue Cross (CBC) employee and four others were indicted for healthcare fraud for allegedly filing false health insurance claims totaling $292,000 in 2012 and 2013.