Hospitals and medical providers routinely accept less than the billed amount, especially for uninsured or underinsured patients. Request an itemized bill first, since billing errors are common, then ask about financial assistance, prompt-pay discounts, payment plans, and unadvertised charity care programs. The worst outcome of asking is paying what you were already quoted.
This summer, we saw the debut of Space Exploration Technologies — otherwise known as SpaceX — stock in a massive initial public offering (IPO). We also saw share prices across space-economy stocks collapse after said IPO, with no better example than Rocket Lab (RKLB +0.70%), one of the sector’s biggest names in public markets. Shares of…
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent addresses the Economic Club of New York on March 6, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images U.S. Treasury yields were relatively unchanged on Friday after the U.S. said its naval blockade of Iranian ports could continue “indefinitely.” The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the…
The ERISA Industry Committee filed on Monday an amicus brief with the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals urging the court to affirm the dismissal of a suit accusing WPP Group USA Inc. and its retirement plan committee of misusing employee plan forfeitures to offset company costs rather than benefiting plan participants. The brief in…
Some decisions are largely matters of data and analysis. Yet more often, that analysis informs a decision with trade-offs, such as funding retirement or education. Given that we all work with limited resources, financial data is crucial to inform how each dollar may function in these circumstances… yet the data does not produce the definitive…
I grew up hearing that a wise person never puts all their eggs in one basket. Even as a young child in Paris, I practiced it before I fully understood it. When 20 French francs came my way, a few went into the piggy bank, a few were set aside for gifts for my family,…
Annette Kruzynski, a 79-year-old retiree from West Hempstead, N.Y., used to think her 401(k) survived the dot-com bust, the Great Recession and the COVID pandemic because she moved all her money to cash. She proudly told anyone that being in CDs, bonds and money market accounts saved her from the massive sell-offs in the stock…
