Julie Appleby

Under a rule that kicked in Jan. 1, hospitals must now make public the prices they negotiate with health insurers. But health policy experts have divergent views on what that will mean for patients.

Congress has passed a long-debated measure to stop health care providers from billing patients for charges not covered by their insurance. Here’s how the new protection works.

Anyone with lingering effects of COVID-19 should be extra careful in picking a 2021 health plan, specialists say. You now have a “pre-existing condition” that could increase medical expenses in 2021.

It was a surprise even for a family of lawyers. A process called “subrogation” began with a Nevada family’s health insurer denying their claim for an ER visit after their 9-year-old fell off his bike.

A loved one’s health could depend on the truth if you get a call from a real contact tracer about your exposure to the coronavirus. But beware impostors who ask you for payment or to click on a link.

People with COVID-19 symptoms in March and April were often billed for expensive scans and bloodwork because they didn’t qualify back then for a confirmatory coronavirus test. Some are crying foul.

Even many symptomatic patients and exposed health workers who are able to get a COVID-19 test must wait nearly a week to get results. Others get results in hours. Here’s why it varies so much.

A young man averted disaster after a friend took him to the nearest hospital just before his appendix burst. But more than a year later, he’s still facing a huge bill for his out-of-network surgery.

President Trump promises he has a “phenomenal” health plan if the ACA is overturned in court. Here’s a glimpse, according to analysts and his advisers, of what might be included in a GOP health plan.