Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...

If you have a chronic condition requiring specialty medication, you are likely familiar with the “Copay Card”—that plastic ...

Manufacturer copay cards, or copay coupons, are savings programs that medication manufacturers offer to offset the cost of their brand-name medications. Copay cards may help people with private ...

Goozner is the former editor-in-chief and columnist at Modern Healthcare. Online vitriol isn’t pretty. But the mass schadenfreude that greeted the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson ...

That text from a cleveland.com Subtext subscriber summed up how many Clevelanders feel about the Clinic’s new policy of requiring patients to pay health insurance copays before appointments, or at ...

MEDICINE CAN REACH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. ACTION NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED. EVEN WHEN PATIENTS GET HELP PAYING THOSE BILLS, THEY CAN BE STUCK WITH A STEEP DEDUCTIBLE. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER ...

A co-pay clause is a cost-sharing rule built into a health insurance policy. It means the insured person pays a pre-agreed ...

Coinsurance is a split cost between you and your insurer after meeting your deductible. Copays are fixed upfront charges that apply before meeting your deductible. Property insurance coinsurance ...

Life is a challenge, but chronic health conditions can make daily living seem insurmountable. Diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease often mean fatigue, recurring ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Before, Cleveland Clinic patients were going to be turned away if they couldn’t immediately pay their insurance co-pay. Now, in a reversal announced Wednesday, Clinic patients can ...