The Economy

Hospitals Scramble to Find Medical Workers as Nurses Strike

Jonathan Custodio and Stephon Johnson, The City This article was originally published on Jan 9 8:26pm EST by THE CITY More than 7,000 nurses walked off the job and onto picket lines outside of four Montefiore Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital locations in The Bronx and Manhattan...

Hundreds of US Hospitals Sue Patients or Threaten Their Credit, a KHN Investigation Finds

Noam N. Levey     December 21, 2022 Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills, using tactics such as lawsuits, selling patient accounts to debt buyers, and reporting patients to credit rating agencies, a KHN...