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Hospitals Bob Herman

Cancer patients endure an overlooked financial burden: hospital parking fees

First Opinion David Blumenthal and Sara Collins

Millions of Americans have health insurance that isn’t ‘good enough’

Insurance Bob Herman

Medicare is going to cap patients’ spending on drugs. But there’s no such limit for hospital or doctor bills

First Opinion Cynthia A. Fisher

CBO’s dismissal of health care price transparency is based on faulty premises

First Opinion Elise Amez-Droz and Phillip Phan

Better use of health savings accounts: lessons from Singapore

First Opinion Elizabeth Mitchell and Mike Thompson

As hospitals raise their prices, U.S. workers and businesses suffer

First Opinion Marc Rodwin and Alan Sager

The No Surprises Act: A Band-Aid protecting business as usual

Insurance Bob Herman and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealthcare to offer $0 insulin, Epi-Pens, but only for some members

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First Opinion Cynthia A. Fisher

New analysis: CMS vastly overestimates hospital price transparency efforts

First Opinion Kim Keck

How to save three-quarters of a trillion dollars in health care costs

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First Opinion Zak Holdsworth

CVS’s acquisition of Oak Street doesn’t address health care’s woes

First Opinion Michael Waterbury

Reinventing health care in 2023

Insurance Katheryn Houghton — KHN

Montana may be moving away from its innovative plan for setting hospital prices for public workers

First Opinion Stacy Bratcher

Health care needs a Black Friday sale: the case for legalizing discounts on medical services

Health Bob Herman

Collateral damage of the Fed’s interest rate hikes: People who put medical bills on credit cards

Health Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs

Health Isabella Cueto

Common injections don’t help knee osteoarthritis more than placebo, large data review finds

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Such a deal! Covid-19 therapies appear cost-effective … for now

First Opinion Jackson Williams

Hospitals’ cash prices for services offer a new look at health care pricing

First Opinion Reshma Ramachandran, Tianna Zhou and Joseph S. Ross

Out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries need to be reined in

First Opinion Vivian S. Lee

Fee for service is a terrible way to pay for health care. Try a subscription model instead

First Opinion William A. Haseltine

High-quality care can lower U.S. health care costs: a case study from Brooklyn

First Opinion Seema Verma

Seema Verma: Americans have the right to know their health care and hospital costs

First Opinion Scott D. Ramsey and Veena Shankaran

Financial toxicity: 1 in 3 cancer patients have to turn to friends or family to pay for care

First Opinion Ted Slafsky

This drug discount program is good for Americans. But pharma wants to gut it

First Opinion Hank Gardner

To drive real health care reform, look to what employers are doing

First Opinion Debra Patt

This federal drug discount program is actually boosting cancer care costs

First Opinion Robin Gelburd

The opioid epidemic is skyrocketing private insurance costs

Business Leah Samuel

Inside the medical debt charity that John Oliver just made famous

Politics Dylan Scott

Why an obscure Supreme Court case is a big deal for prescription drugs

First Opinion Susan DeVore

Medicare ‘bundled payments’ improve health, save money

First Opinion Yevgeniy Feyman and Austin Frakt

Supreme Court delivers a blow to health care cost transparency

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

The biosimilar ploy that could save billions in health care costs