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News Articles: medical bill

In severe pain and uncertain of its cause, Tieqiao Zhang of Dallas says he didn’t want to wait for an appointment with his regular doctor, but he also wasn’t sure if he needed emergency care. He visited a clinic on the campus of Dallas’ largest public hospital — and was charged 10 times what he expected.

It’s called an urgent care emergency center — but which is it?

Suffering stomach pain, a Dallas man visited his local urgent care clinic — or so he thought, until he got a bill 10 times what he’d expected.

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  • Renuka Rayasam and
  • Emily Siner
In this Oct. 7, 2016 photo, a nurse provides assistance to the surgical staff at the Dr. Isaac Gonzalez Mart

Public insurance claim database will give a better look at health care access in Georgia

Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD, by January. The database and visualizations to come were developed with support from the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

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Lucy Greco (left), a web-accessibility specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, is blind. She reads most of her documents online, but employs Liza Schlosser-Olroyd as an aide to sort through her paper mail every other month, to make sure Greco hasn't missed a bill or other important correspondence.

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans

When health bills aren't legible — via large-print, Braille or other adaptive technology — blind patients can't know what they owe, and are too often sent to debt collections, an investigation finds.

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By:
  • Lauren Weber and
  • Hannah Recht