BOISE, Idaho— Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance. "It’ s nerve-racking," said Joshua Durham, 47. "It just takes, you know, one little accident, and then you got a big fat bill." Nationwide, 7% of all healthcare workers were uninsured in 2024, compared with 11% of all adults under 65,…
The following information was released by the American Public Power Association:. The Senate Banking Committee recently voted unanimously to pass S. 4395, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2026.. APPA joined a coalition of stakeholders in sending a letter to Senate Banking Committee leadership urging swift passage of S. 4395..
Authors: Jessica Mathers and Elizabeth Hinton. In May 2026, CMSannouncedthe HHS Office of the Inspector General would be initiating areview of every state's MFCUbefore its next annual recertification. In June 2026, the HHS-OIG denied recertification and suspended federal funding for Hawaii's and New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Units.
The following information was released by the office of the Attorney General of New Jersey:. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced today that an owner of a high-end car rental company has been sentenced to four years in state prison for insurance fraud involving a staged car crash and fraudulent…
The Affordability is Access Act would require insurers to fully cover over-the-counter birth control without any fees or out-of-pocket costs, once it's FDA- approved. The legislation also includes a new provision to require health insurance to cover every FDA- approved contraceptive drug or drug-led combination product without cost sharing unless the…
Fifty-one percent of the population of the U.S. has some kind of life insurance coverage in place, and the industry assets cover the equivalent of 41% of the country's collective yearly personal income, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Meanwhile, ACLI data shows that the annual voluntary surrender rate for individual policyholders is around…
"It means that more of these hospitals, a few nursing homes that are wrapped up in our academic medical centers, are going to start limiting the numbers of Medicaid patients that they see," said Debra Lipson, the independent health policy researcher who authored the report. But in the years since, federal and state spending on these so-called state-directed…
In a surprising development, Auburn City Council on Thursday rejected a proposed three-year contract with the city's firefighters union. Mayor Jimmy Giannettino and Councilors Craig Diego and Rhoda Overstreet-Wilson each cited the contract's language on contributions to health insurance premiums as part of the reason for their vote, believing they…
2026 SEP 28– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting out of Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx editors, research stated,“ The prices of new medicines in the USA are among the highest in the world. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Brigham…
2026 SEP 28– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting originating in Phoenix, Arizona, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ Renal stone surveillance often relies on ultrasound and radiography of the kidney, ureter, and bladder because of concerns about CT…
