Last year, lawmakers in 29 states considered some 90 bills that would regulate quicker response times from insurers, according to the American Medical Association, with victories in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Ballad Health sued more than 6,700 patients over medical debt in 2018, according to The New York Times. Did they make "reasonable efforts" to collect payment, as the ACA requires?
These community health centers must take all patients regardless of their ability to pay, and, in return, they receive annual government grants and higher reimbursement rates from Medicaid and Medicare than private physicians.
An estimated 1 million people in California alone cross to Mexico annually for health care, including to buy prescription drugs.
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