Anger over health insurance companies has been in the spotlight after Thompson was fatally shot Dec. 4 in New York City. Luigi Mangione, a 26- year-old, was arrested last week in Pennsylvania and faces charges in Thompson's killing. Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, said 22 percent of Democrats said they found the killing…
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Arkansas lawmakers spent five hours Monday debating whether to permanently require pharmacy benefit managers to include dispensing fees in their reimbursements to pharmacies for prescription drugs. The Joint Insurance and Commerce Committee questioned Arkansas Insurance Department staff and heard public comment from 11 people for and against the…
Registered voters in Tennessee voiced overwhelming support for Medicaid expansion, including 55% of MAGA Republicans, and, further, they believe health insurers and pharmaceutical companies are largely responsible for high healthcare costs. "While much ink has been spilled about what the election results mean about the electorate, these results suggest…
With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block. More than 3 million adults in nine states would be at immediate risk of losing their health coverage should the GOP reduce the extra federal Medicaid funding that's enabled states…
Zolbrod, I'm not currently a client of the Health Insurance Store. Due to testing back logs, I'm told that the more detailed tests I will need prior to my A-Fib treatments can't be done until early February 2025. Answer: Anyone who currently has an Advantage Plan, and can pass medical underwriting, can still make a change back to Original Medicare and a Supplement…
By Evan Ramstad/ Minnesota Star Tribune. Another wave of criticism rose against Minnetonka, Minn.- based UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer, and the broader insurance industry following the arrest on Monday of Luigi Mangione. The 26- year-old scion of a wealthy Maryland family was charged with murder for shooting Thompson last Wednesday…
Many patients face significant upfront costs to getting health care. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Imagesw. The U.S. has made great progress in getting more people insured since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014.
Once political assassination is normalized all officeholders and candidates both Republicans and Democrats are at risk and democracy cannot function. Nor should Democrats make light of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, even though Trump joked about the life-threatening hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. The recent assassination of…
Because the United States still doesn't have a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. On December 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare's 50- year-old CEO. And Andrew Witty, CEO of the overall UnitedHealth operation, collected $23.5 million, making him the nation's highest-paid health insurance CEO.
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Three of Maryland "s top health insurers have higher than average claim denial rates, according to research that" s gained traction in the wake of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the arrest of suspect and Baltimore area native Luigi Nicholas Mangione. They include BlueCross BlueShield, which operates in Maryland as CareFirst…
The decision comes after Texas and 18 other states banded together to sue the federal government following recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services establishing a pathway for some Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients to enroll in health insurance plans. District Judge Daniel M. Traynor temporarily halted the…
Mental health has been at the center of former U.S. Rep. In 2008, while representing Rhode Island in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kennedy was the lead author of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, a federal law that requires health insurance companies to provide equal coverage for mental health and addiction care and general physical health…
Because the United States still doesn't have a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. On December 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare's 50- year-old CEO. And Andrew Witty, CEO of the overall UnitedHealth operation, collected $23.5 million, making him the nation's highest-paid health insurance CEO.
The U.S. has made great progress in getting more people insured since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014. The share of uninsured Americans ages 18 to 64 fell from 18% before the ACA to 9.5% in 2022. And preexisting conditions no longer prevent coverage or lead to an increase in premiums.
2024 DEC 16– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Current study results on Managed Care have been published. Financial support for this research came from School of Dentistry, University of Washington. The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Washington,“ Three state agencies provided enrollment and…
Even as UnitedHealth Group workers have been wrongly made to feel unsafe by a barrage of threats and vitriol over the past nine days, CEO Andrew Witty said in a New York Times op-ed Friday that insurers must do better in being transparent with patients when coverage for care is denied. UnitedHealth Group confirmed Thursday night that shooting suspect Luigi…
UnitedHealth Group agreed to pay $69 million to settle a class action lawsuit from an employee who alleged the health care giant offered its employees lower-performing 401 options than it could have, costing workers hundreds of millions in lost investment profits. The litigation alleged interference by the company’ s CFO to retain certain Wells Fargo funds…
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In observance of HIV/AIDS Awareness Month and to further the Shapiro Administration's commitment to Pennsylvanians' wellbeing, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and the Department of Health today remind Pennsylvanians of the importance of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for HIV prevention. "We want to remind consumers that the federal…
