Beginning next year, Americans will be required to obtain health insurance coverage or pay a fine. After this “individual mandate” — part of the comprehensive healthcare reform law passed in 2010 — ...

A TikTok video from January told people that most hospitals are required to provide financial assistance, including free care, to people whose income falls under a certain level. Yes. The Affordable ...

In 2018, senior executives at one of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, were frustrated. They were spending hundreds of millions of dollars providing free health care to ...

The practice of hospitals receiving massive tax breaks and then billing patients who should receive free care "is not something that really should be allowed," said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown ...

Hospitals that discontinued distributing industry-sponsored infant formula sample packs to new mothers doubled from 2007 to 2010, but many continue the practice despite criticism that it discourages ...