Jan. 10— HCA Healthcare's impending purchase of financially strapped Catholic Medical Center could lead to higher costs that patients pay for services and health insurance, according to an analysis done for state regulators. Under the deal, the for-profit HCA Healthcare will pay $110 million to acquire the 330- bed hospital on Manchester's West Side in a deal…
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If adopted as currently written, House Bill 1114 would set out-of-pocket costs for a monthly supply of insulin at $25 for the North Dakota commercial insurance market. Under state law, however, North Dakota must first pilot any health insurance mandates on state employee health insurance before rolling it out to the full North Dakota marketplace.
My book "Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It," was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack outside the company's annual investors conference. Investigators at the scene found bullet casings inscribed with…
MountainOne Insurance Agency has come a long way in the last decade under the leadership of Jonathan Denmark, President and COO. As Denmark approaches his tenth anniversary with MountainOne and nearly 20 years in the insurance industry, he reflects on how MountainOne Insurance has expanded significantly across Western Massachusetts while adapting to a…
Jan. 10— HCA Healthcare's impending purchase of financially strapped Catholic Medical Center could lead to higher costs that patients pay for services and health insurance, according to an analysis done for state regulators. Under the deal, the for-profit HCA Healthcare will pay $110 million to acquire the 330- bed hospital on Manchester's West Side in a deal…
Jan. 10— Every year, millions of Americans, most of whom have health insurance, incur medical debt. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.. The new rule "will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans," according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
2025 JAN 10– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. Financial supporters for this research include NIH National Institute on Aging, Arnold Ventures. The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Harvard University,“ National carriers expanded their national market…
My book“ Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’ t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack outside the company’ s annual investors conference. Investigators at the scene found bullet casings inscribed with…
This article was originally published on KFF Health News. 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 electronically controlled knee wasn't medically necessary, the insurer said, even though…
The Delaware Department of Insurance and its Medicare Assistance Bureau announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has completed a review of the impact of the Bayhealth-Cigna Medicare Advantage termination. Bayhealth is the state's second largest healthcare system and has a dominant market share in Central Delaware.
"We've once again set a new all-time record for marketplace enrollment," Neera Tanden, domestic policy adviser to President Joe Biden, said on a press call Tuesday. That 24 million is about double the number of people enrolled when President Biden took office four years ago, Tanden noted. Enrollment is still open until Jan. 15 for coverage that starts Feb. 1.
Now Democrats in Congress are revving up for a fight to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more subsidizing managed care plans, while Republicans are opposed. New research in Lancet shows that life expectancy for Black Americans stalled during the vast expansion of Medicaid managed care and Affordable Care Act plans. The U.S. ranks a disappointing 49th in…
A new scheme coming from Congress threatens to make health insurance unaffordable for Idahoans. As if the constant rising inflation and decreasing wages weren’ t enough, some lawmakers are now pushing a scheme that will leave struggling Idaho families in even worse shape. In total, inflation has cost the average household in the state $34,258 since January of…
But then Krugman went on to offer an admittedly "somewhat… caricatured" view of U.S. health care: "It's a system in which taxpayers bear the cost of major medical care, but this taxpayer money flows through private companies that take a cut, spend a lot on administration, and do their best to deny care to people who need it. For many years, Krugman has been an advocate of…
A record number of Illinois residents have signed up for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year— amid uncertainties about the future of tax credits that lower the cost of those plans for most consumers. In Illinois, 449,553 people selected health plans between Nov. 1, when open enrollment began, through Jan. 4, according to the federal Centers for…
A group representing faith-based shareholders petitioned Eden Prairie- based UnitedHealth Group to develop a report on the human and economic toll that stems from limiting or delaying access to health care at the company’ s massive insurance subsidiary. UnitedHealth Group has been the subject of recent media and legislative scrutiny due to its market…
My book“ Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’ t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” was thrust into the spotlight recently, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities say was a targeted attack outside the company’ s annual investors conference. Investigators at the scene found bullet casings inscribed with…
Newly elected State Treasurer Brad Briner said Thursday that health insurance premium increases for 2026 are under consideration for State Health Plan members due to financial shortfalls. Briner’ s comments came during a meeting of the State Board of Education in a discussion on priorities by the board for the 2025 legislative session.“ We’ ve tried to be very…
‘The View’ host Sunny Hostin’s husband accused in NYC insurance fraud
The husband of longtime co-host of “The View,” Sunny Hostin, is among dozens of doctors and medical personnel accused of massive medical insurance fraud.
WASHINGTON- The number of Americans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces has roughly doubled since President Joe Biden took office, but White House officials warned Wednesday that the surge in Americans taking advantage of increased government health care subsidies could face risks as President-elect Donald Trump…
