The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau sent more than 60,000 debt collection complaints in 2022, and 8,500 (15%) of those were about attempts to collect a medical bill, according to the agency’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how healthcare business and policy impact consumers. Medical debt weighs on millions of Americans—as many as half by ...

In a recent article posted to the medRxiv * preprint server, investigators in Norway and Sweden compared medical complaints after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection ...

The State Medical Board of Ohio previously declined to discipline an Ohio doctor who has since been repeatedly accused of sexually assaulting his patients. Ohio Gastroenterology Group in Columbus ...

Medical bill file folder with red “Past Due” text. Errors in medical billing can be a headache for patients—not to mention potentially expensive and time-consuming to sort out. Decoding health ...

The State Medical Board of Ohio is beefing up its staff and anticipating more reports of sexual misconduct following the Dispatch's "Preying on Patients" investigation. The Dispatch found at least 256 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its annual report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act highlighting consumer complaints about unpaid medical debt. Fresh off a ...

The State Medical Board of Ohio will not take any action in a majority of sexual misconduct complaints against physicians and other licensed medical professionals it reopened last year in the wake of ...

The Medical Examiner's Office recently sat down with administrators from several Pensacola funeral homes to address complaints about the care of bodies. The owners and directors of several Pensacola ...