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MINNEAPOLIS — UnitedHealthcare is now offering telehealth appointments with no co-pay or out-of-pocket cost as a benefit.

As they lose out on billing for such drugs, hospitals and clinics are trying to convince states to limit this practice, known as "white bagging."

Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend.

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child's name on the bill, not hers.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said

The federal COVID-19 pandemic protections that have largely prohibited states from dropping anyone from Medicaid since 2020 helped millions of low-income Americans retain health insurance coverage — even if they no longer qualified — and brought the U.S. uninsured rate to a record low.

UnitedHealthcare, Centene, and Aetna have seen their revenue surge by billions as their membership soared by millions.

A college student's fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims

Previously secret government audits reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans

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In 2018, responding to a wave of overdose deaths, Congress passed legislation requiring Medicare to pay for services at opioid treatment programs for the first time.