2025 JAN 20– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Lynchburg, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ National health policy initiatives recommend increased integration of midwifery care in the United States to improve care…
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2025 JAN 20– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– Fresh data on delirium are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Farmington, Connecticut, by NewsRx editors, the research stated,“ Medicare Advantage health insurance plans now cover more individuals than original Medicare.”. Our news reporters obtained a…
Beefing up the town's fire department appears to be one of the first tasks facing St. Francisville's mayor and aldermen in their new terms. In a Jan. 14 meeting, their first since taking their oaths of office, the town's aldermen heard new Mayor Andy D'Aquilla report that the Property Insurance Association of Louisiana downgraded the town's fire insurance…
"It makes me feel like we're lying to people," Conway said at an Oct. 15 town hall for homeowners in Pueblo. Several billion-dollar disasters affecting Colorado properties have led to a spectacular rise in homeowner insurance premiums in the past few years, while insurers cite larger losses because they're paying out more in claims than they're taking in from…
Insurance enterprises in North America are integrating new technologies, including AI, to succeed in an unpredictable, rapidly changing market, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group, a leading global technology research and advisory firm. The 2024 ISG Provider Lens™ Insurance Services report for North America…
The UnitedHealth Group leader whose murder in December unleashed a torrent of public frustration and dissatisfaction with the U.S. health care system was pushing for some of the very improvements that critics have been seeking. Witty said Thompson worked on improvements to prior authorization rules that are part of a broader system for claims processing…
Concerns about medical debt persist in Minnesota, even as the state boasts a high share of residents with health insurance that should help prevent unpaid bills. Tax-exempt medical centers offer free and discounted care to patients through these programs as part of their community mission, said Joe Schindler of the Minnesota Hospital Association.
Karen Murray Boston had been looking forward to December for months so she could start shopping around for new homeowners insurance for her 1918 farmhouse in Fruita. Her insurer, American National Group, is dropping her this month and abandoning Colorado altogether. The cost of property insurance in Colorado has become one of the fastest-growing household…
CHICAGO— As required by Executive Order 2024-01, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly its first report from the Advisory Council on financing and access to Sickle Cell Disease treatment and other high-cost drugs and treatment. Advisory Council recommendations focus on Medicaid…
David and Peggy Blue were dumbfounded when they were notified last month that their home insurance would not be renewed because of a tall sycamore tree that overhangs their Altadena house. Their appeals for reconsideration were fruitless, leading the former San Diegans on a nerve-racking quest for a new policy. Finally, on Jan. 7, a tentative policy they’ d been…
Insurance company State Farm has canceled plans to air a spot during Super Bowl 59, citing the ongoing fires in Los Angeles as the company’ s primary focus. State Farm, the largest insurer in California, covers 250,000 homes in Los Angeles County and 880,000 cars and other vehicles. “State Farm, State Farm agents, and our employees are all focused on helping…
Jan. 17— Health insurance and special education costs for the school district have risen significantly in recent years and are making a serious dent in the budget, administrators said at a Thursday evening budget meeting. The district's health care spending is projected to increase by $1.8 million in the upcoming year, after having increased $3.1 million in…
Anthem and Stamford Health officials confirmed this week that their contract expired on Dec. 31. But to comply with a state-mandated, 60- day "cooling off period," they said that Anthem members' in-network coverage would continue until March 1 for services provided by Stamford Health, which includes Stamford Hospital and a number of outpatient centers in…
David and Peggy Blue were dumbfounded when they were notified last month that their home insurance would not be renewed because of a tall sycamore tree that overhangs their Altadena house. Their appeals for reconsideration were fruitless, leading the former San Diegans on a nerve-racking quest for a new policy. Finally, on Jan. 7, a tentative policy they’ d been…
When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. He picked a gold plan on the Colorado health insurance marketplace that covered prosthetics, including microprocessor-controlled knees like the one he has used for many years. The roughly $50,000 leg with the…
From February 2020 to April 2022, the nation's M2 money supply surged by more than 40% to a record-high $21.7 trillion. The M2 is a classification used by the Federal Reserve to measure the total value of U.S. currency within the economy at any given point in time. From its record-high level of $21.7 trillion in April 2022, the M2 money supply gradually fell by $1.1…
Inflation is projected to hold steady in 2025 at the 2.4-2.5% pace of recent months, Ed Knotek, director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said this week. But Trump, soon moving into the White House, is preparing to impose blanket tariffs on imports while congressional Republicans push to extend the tax cuts that they passed in 2017..
Citizens Property Insurance Corp. drew seven bids from its invitation to negotiate for "turn-key" office space in Jacksonville that is smaller than its current Downtown location. The state insurer operates in the 30- story high-rise at 301 W. Bay St., for which it signed a 10- year, $41.7 million lease in 2015. The Atlantic Land and Improvement Co., care of CSX…
In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can't seem to get a fair shake, at least from the national political establishment based in Washington D.C. and the mainstream mass media. These include senior appointments, first and foremost Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve. This was partly in retaliation for important United States support for…
