When you receive a medical bill, that dollar amount you're charged doesn't have to necessarily be the final say. Believe it or not, you can actually negotiate your medical bills—even once they're in ...

Ooda Health, a startup company with offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, is running a pilot program with insurers and hospitals as it tries to fix healthcare’s medical billing problems, ...

You can take several steps to negotiate a medical bill in collections, such as: Start by contacting your health care provider's billing department to ask if any deductions or discounts are available.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mattie Randolph is among a growing number of Americans facing medical debt — and for her, that struggle began with a routine hospital visit in 2018. Randolph says she wasn’t billed ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

Medical debt has become one of the most disruptive financial issues Americans face today. Even with health insurance, high deductibles and surprise billing can leave households owing thousands of ...

Complaints about aggressive debt collection have skyrocketed in recent months, federal data shows, a sign that more Americans are falling behind on credit cards and medical bills. The rise in ...