Hawley Montgomery-Downs was thrilled when her daughter got a scholarship to cover half of USC’s tuition. But just as Bryn Tronco was starting school in August, the West Virginia mom was shocked to receive a nearly $3,000 bill from USC to cover a student health insurance premium and fees for students to access on-campus clinics …
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Central Florida health specialists have agreed to pay HHS $20,000 after a possible HIPAA right-of-access rule violation. (“Cash Money (Part Two)” by jtyerse is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.) For the second time this week, the Civil Rights Office announced that it had reached an agreement with a health care entity to resolve a potential …
Spirit Joos | Photodisc | Getty Images Long Covid results in $9,500 in total average medical costs for workers and their employers within six months of a diagnosis, according to research by Nomi Health. Long Covid is a chronic disease that can come with potentially debilitating symptoms, which can last for months or years. This …
Massachusetts has a long and well-deserved reputation as one of the most expensive states in the country when it comes to health care. Thanks to the presence of world-renowned advanced medical institutions and high service utilization rates, it is now the third most expensive health care state in the country, after Alaska and New York, …
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The health insurance market is a kind of complex matrix. With over 320 plans to choose from, it would test even the most patient individuals. It’s no wonder most of them just let their policies renew when they need to be renewed. However, premiums are starting to rise again along with goods and services in …
