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Patients sliding downhill can lose precious hours while smaller hospitals place call after call to larger facilities looking for ICU openings amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Studies suggest that even if you go to a hospital in your insurance network to get care, there's a good chance you'll find out afterward that a third-party outside your network has the right to bill you, too.

Death rates dropped when Kansas shut down large swaths of its economy in late March, but a sharp increase in hospitalizations this month could change that.

A first-hand account of what it's like to be hospitalized with COVID-19, and how a family handled the situation.

The indictment alleges Jorge Perez and others exploited federal regulations that allow some rural hospitals to charge substantially higher rates for laboratory testing than other providers.

The doctor deserves to get paid. Still, experts recommend taking a close look at the charges. Sometimes a bill that looks too high is too high.

The closure of small and rural hospitals will escalate as they confront COVID-19 and a provision in Trump’s tax act.

More than 9,000 U.S. health care workers have come down with the coronavirus and at least 27 have died.

The volunteer group is delivering halal meals from Kansas City restaurants for free to Muslim health care workers fasting on the front lines.

The pediatric hospital has treated only 4 COVID-19 patients and seen its revenues plummet with the cancellation of elective surgeries and most outpatient visits.

Governors of Missouri and Kansas on reopening their states, Kansas City hospital CEO on COVID-19 preparedness, and mime still entertaining during the pandemic.

A register nurse has died after treating a COVID-19 patient at Research Medical Center with minimal personal protective equipment, coworkers say.