health care

Oklahoma’s Medicaid program, SoonerCare, is on its way to profound change. StateImpact’s Catherine Sweeney talked with its director, Secretary of Health Kevin Corbett, this week about the transition to managed care.

Oklahoma has one of the highest hepatitis C virus rates in the country. That's one of the reasons why the Cherokee Nation is gearing up a new harm reduction program in Tahlequah.

These programs are part of a new trend toward membership care. Some are called concierge medicine; there's also another kind called direct primary care.

JPMorgan's cheery confab returned to San Francisco, but the health care capitalists had economic anxiety, too.

Patients can defer payment for certain procedures, like fertility or cosmetic services.

An examination of billing policies and practices at more than 500 hospitals across the country shows widespread reliance on aggressive collection tactics.

A health system charged a woman for a shoulder replacement she didn't need and hadn't received. She didn't receive the care, but she did receive the bill — and some medical records of a stranger.

When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.

In American Sirens, writer Kevin Hazzard recounts how a group of Black paramedics in Pittsburgh in the 1970s pioneered and professionalized the modern day ambulance service.

Russell Cook expected a quick, inexpensive visit to an urgent care center for his daughter after a car wreck. She wasn't badly hurt, but they were sent to an emergency room — for a much larger bill.