The Biden administration is cracking down on short-term health insurance plans that aren’t required to meet the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protection mandates.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the Calendar Year 2025 Advance Notice for the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Programs that would update payment policies for these programs.
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress showed strong support for the Child Tax Credit and some business tax breaks as the House voted to send a bipartisan tax package to the Senate on Wednesday.
Kaiser Permanente’s frontline health care workers unions reached a tentative deal with the company today after the nation’s largest recorded medical sector strike.
Insurers usually don’t cover over-the-counter products but that could change as the Biden administration seeks to expand insurance coverage of products such as an OTC birth control pill and other items.
About a half-million people who had their Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage terminated were reinstated into coverage after computer errors in many states were corrected, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the list of 34 prescription drugs that may have a lower cost for Part B beneficiaries between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.
Fewer Wisconsin residents are enrolled in short-term health plans since 2019, and those plans have a rate of claim denials that far exceeds that of health plans offered on the Affordable Care Act marketplace in that state.
The New York State Department of Financial Service has proposed the nation’s most comprehensive set of market rules for pharmacy benefit managers in that state.
Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced today that Friday Health Plans of North Carolina was placed into receivership, effective July 16. Liquidation of Friday Health Plans-NC will occur Sept. 1.
Colorado regulators are pulling the plug on Friday Health Plans Colorado, a move that means more than 30,000 residents of that state must find other health coverage.