Health care prices are on the rise, and patients are flummoxed that even insurance companies aren’t doing more to control ...

The high cost of hospital-based services is forcing more Mainers into medical debt, according to a new survey. The nonprofit Consumers for Affordable Healthcare reported nearly half of Maine ...

Matt Rosenberg negotiated a $163,000 discount on a hospital bill using Claude for help — and says AI is giving patients more power.

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Charities that help people cover their medical bills say they’re seeing an alarming increase in requests for help. Worse yet, they say, it’s coming even before cuts to Medicaid in President Donald ...

Here’s a story that stopped me in my tracks. A grieving family was hit with a $195,000 hospital bill for just four hours of their loved one’s care in the ICU. No surgery. No five-day extended stay.

After a 46-year-old Gillette man suffered a stroke while driving a truck in the oil fields, he faced a $300,000 medical debt. And then came the ...