Addressing Medical Debt: A Year of Partnership and Progress
I live with an 8th grader who is currently taking advanced math. While that may read like a cringey parental humble brag, the context is that I am at a…
I live with an 8th grader who is currently taking advanced math. While that may read like a cringey parental humble brag, the context is that I am at a…
Last month, staff members from our Medical Debt team had the privilege of visiting two of our state partners in Georgia. SOWEGA Rising and Georgia Watch are both part of…
Medical bills are confusing. Undoubtedly, many of us have received a medical bill at some point that we couldn’t understand. Samuel in Ohio knows this experience all too well. He…
If non-profit hospitals wanted to, they could easily eliminate medical debt for more than 18 million people — just with the money that they should be, but are not, spending…
Executive Director Emily Stewart on Community Catalyst’s strategic vision to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for…
Earlier this month, Community Catalyst joined other national organizations calling on the Obama administration to change the direction of economic treaty negotiations that could impact cost containment by federal and…
Recent action by the Vermont Attorney General’s office to enforce its longstanding law on industry relationships with providers serves as a valuable roadmap for CMS' enforcement of PPSA.
As patients and consumers, we face more and more choices about our health care each year. We all support consumer empowerment in decisions about their care, but consumers don’t always…
While the White House’s budget plan includes some Medicare benefit cuts, such as raising premiums for Part B and Part D, it includes some policy proposals to help lower drug…
As we discussed here last week, the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating over whether pharmaceutical companies can collude to reap $3.5 billion a year in excess profits from American…
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