PPO health insurance lets you go to any doctor and still pays at least part of your medical bills. With a PPO, or preferred provider organization, you can go to any doctor but you'll pay less when you ...

A health insurance network is a group of health care providers that your health insurance plan works with. Networks include individual doctors, doctor offices, hospitals and other medical offices. The ...

If you’ve gone to a hospital that’s in your insurance network, you probably assume every doctor you see there is also in-network. That used to be a risky ...

Contract showdowns between hospital systems and health insurers are happening more often, and patients are caught in the middle. In recent months, disputes over expiring contracts have led to tens of ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. How one couple and one state dealt with a surprise medical bill of $32,325. Patients who have insurance and go to in-network ...

Elizabeth Rivelli has nearly five years of experience covering insurance for finance publications. She has expertise in various insurance lines, including car insurance, health insurance, travel ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A nonprofit Catholic health system says its hospitals have been dropped from the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Colorado network after “ongoing, good-faith negotiations,” leaving some ...

AdventHealth, a large religious-affiliated hospital system, has sued MultiPlan, alleging the company has worked with health insurers to create a “cartel” that systematically underpays hospitals and ...

Last winter, Amber Wingler started getting a series of increasingly urgent messages from the local hospital in Columbia, Missouri, letting her know her family’s health care might soon be upended. MU ...

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Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...