1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1117+ words) Last fall, as Asante'prepared to close its community hospital in Ashland while claiming financial difficulties, it quietly asked the state for permission to spend an undisclosed amount of money to buy a stand-alone surgery center in Medford. Asante, however, has…...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1026+ words) Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California's North Coast. "They're the folks that work at restaurants. They're the teacher's aides," said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago  (618+ words) Oregon officials have ordered a nationwide nonprofit and its affiliates to stop offering health care benefits as an insurer while'only providing "memberships" that do not provide coverage and protections required by law. The order bars Clear Share Health and its…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1040+ words) After decades of selling insurance, Illinois-based broker John Jaggi had never seen anything like it. More than 80 of his customers who were enrolled in the same Medicare supplemental plan from the insurer Chubb got hit last August with a 45% increase....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (966+ words) Several patients have voiced concerns about health care consolidation and insurance coverage to state authorities reviewing a deal between Salem Health and Santiam Hospital & Clinics. The Oregon Health Authority began its preliminary review of the proposed merger'between the nonprofit hospitals…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1574+ words) Health care providers in Oregon and across the country are worried about a new practice by commercial insurance companies of using artificial intelligence to reclassify and "downcode" billing codes, leading to lower payments. They say AI downcoding is done systematically…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1118+ words) An elementary school teacher chose a low-price health insurance plan but soon realized she wasn't clear about what it would mean for her family's finances. "Once I got the insurance card, I compared our old plan to our new plan,…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (337+ words) All 41 states that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act will see fewer people covered due to new federal work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks. But the percentage of recipients who lose coverage will vary greatly from state…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (1137+ words) Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher's aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works shifts at J. Crew on the weekends to send her daughter to college. Hill and her…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (646+ words) Tens of thousands of patients of Legacy Health woke up Wednesday to a new reality: Their Regence insurance plans no longer consider their providers to be in network. As a result, they face difficult choices including paying more for services,…...