Navigating your health insurance can get complicated fast once you move beyond deductibles and co-pays. Prior authorization, a utilization-management tool, is one of those complications. It was originally created to help insurance providers deal with high-cost, high-risk or unusual healthcare services.
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Three quarters of Midwestern homeowners are concerned about rising home insurance premiums and 86% of homeowners surveyed in a poll released Thursday by Climate Power and the Insurance Fairness Project say elected officials should do more to reduce the cost. The poll surveyed Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas homeowners and found they largely supported policy…
That may be fine when the tickets sold are for harmless attractions, but what mostly seems for sale in 21st- century Washington is this country's very soul. Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. Unfortunately, that necessity has been ignored by President Donald…
Even if you already know the role and history of the Federal Reserve, I’ d bet a pretty penny you’ ll be impressed by the rare coins and notes on display, including a $100,000 bill and a 1907 Saint-Gaudens High-Relief Double Eagle gold coin, valued at upward of $35,000, which Hill told me is "considered to be the most beautiful coins ever produced in the United States."
Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. A National Institutes of Health study concluded the Obama administration "bowed to the demands of the medical industrial complex comprised of hospitals, insurance companies, and drug companies" to help it make the ACA law…
The following information was released by Families USA:. In response, Families USA Executive Director Anthony Wright issued the following response:. "After historic enrollment highs just two years ago driven by the affordability assistance of the tax credits, this coverage collapse was a choice that Congress made.
Congressman Bob Onder released the following statement after his bill, H.R. 9228, the Health Data Access, Transparency, and Affordability Act of 2026, passed out of the Education and Workforce Committee and now awaits consideration on the House floor. As a physician and a Congressman, I am proud to do my part to ensure timely access to the information needed for…
That may be fine when the tickets sold are for harmless attractions, but what mostly seems for sale in 21st- century Washington is this country’ s very soul. Even as the Affordable Care Act was being signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, it was clear it would need future adjustments. Unfortunately, that necessity has been ignored by President Donald…
XAVIER BECERRA NEEDS TO CHANGE MY MIND Editor: Xavier Becerra is heading into the general election as the Democratic nominee for governor. His donor list reads like a directory of California’ s affordability crisis. Chevron, insurance companies, dialysis providers, Meta, Uber, PG&E- industries with enormous financial stakes in who governs this state.
A Tennessee law will bar pharmacy benefit managers from operating retail pharmacies as of July 1, 2028, though CVS Health Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit to avoid having to close its 136 pharmacies there. Pharmacy benefit managers, particularly CVS and two other large companies, handle most U.S. prescriptions. Lawmakers in at least 26 states introduced more…
Richard Blumenthal has added his name to the list of elected officials urging the Connecticut Insurance Department to reject proposed rate filings for four insurance companies that would mean a double-digit rate increase for more than 220,000 people. Blumenthal, joined by Liz Dupont-Diehl, associate director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, said…
Sentara Health Plans, the health insurance division of Norfolk-based Sentara Health, has a new president. With more than two decades of executive leadership in health insurance, Michael Cole started in that role and as executive vice president of Sentara Health last week, according to a Thursday announcement. Previously, Cole served as president of Aetna' s…
EDWARDSVILLE– A Collinsville man and a St. Louis woman were charged out of Madison County last week with health insurance fraud. The suspects, a 59- year-old Collinsville man and a 60- year-old St. Louis woman, were each charged June 16 with managed health care fraud and two counts of theft, all Class 1 felonies; conspiracy to commit theft, both Class 2 felonies; and…
2026 JUN 26– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. According to news reporting originating from Charlottesville, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ To characterize longitudinal trends in the distribution of interventional radiology work across radiologists to…
2026 JUN 26– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in cancer. The news editors obtained a quote from the research from Community Memorial Hospital:“ This study examines barriers to post-mastectomy breast reconstruction to promote a supportive clinical climate by addressing multifactorial…
2026 JUN 26– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Business Daily– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a trademark application has been made for“ C-MANAGERPAY” by Angela P. Doughty Ward and Smith, P.A., representing CIT Group Inc. This application was made available to the public on June 16, 2026.
The Federal Reserve held interest rates at 3.75% earlier this month, a decision that, at face value, isn’ t bad news for job applicants. That could hit South Florida especially hard. The area’ s economy is heavily dependent on tourism, real estate and construction,“ all of which are interest-rate-sensitive,” said Bryan Cutsinger, a professor of economics at Florida…
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation today signed a cooperation agreement with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform, to establish a political risk insurance framework for the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. This framework is intended to catalyze and…
The event allowed state agencies to connect with rural Nevada communities and learn what issues they are facing. They have also reached out to Elko law enforcement about creating a similar partnership. Ned Gaines, insurance commissioner with the Nevada Division of Insurance, explained how his agency recovered more than $9 million for consumers last year.
