Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide free or discounted care, also known as charity care; yet eligibility and application requirements vary across hospitals. Could you qualify? We found out.
A spike of influenza A cases in the Rochester area "burned really hot and really fast" in December, just after a harsh RSV wave impacted the country. Now COVID might make a return.
Like much of the United States, Minnesota is seeing an early wave of influenza infections this winter. Regional health providers are encouraging flu vaccinations and other measures to help prevent illness.
The cost of brain scans at U.S. hospitals can vary wildly — some patients paying five times as much — for the same scan depending on their health insurance plans, according to a recent study in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America.
Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization that tracks data about health care centers, gave Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center top scores on a biannual hospital safety report card.
