Health/Employee Benefits News

Fletcher is in the middle of an $11,517 billing dispute with a Florida Blue-affiliated health plan and Broward Health over her daughter’ s visit to the ER for a potential appendicitis scare. Then, the South Florida mom was struck with the pricey bill for out-of-network care. It was a shock to Fletcher, who told the Miami Herald she didn’ t know Broward Health, the Fort…

Laura Belin: "I Do Not Remember Ashley Hinson Running On". DES MOINES Ashley Hinson is getting called out for lying in her Senate campaign's first TV ad by claiming to lower health insurance costs, support veterans, and banning stock trading in Congress. Laura Belin: "I do not remember Ashley Hinson running on.

DES MOINES A new review of Ashley Hinson's first Senate campaign TV ad from the Iowa Independent highlights her lies in claiming she's lowering health insurance costs, supporting veterans, and banning stock trading in Congress. Ashley Hinson released a new television ad on May 12 in which she says she is working to address healthcare costs, veterans' benefits,…

Health insurance plans will only be open to people who are Idaho Farm Bureau members who are“ actively engaged in agricultural production in Idaho, employ at least two full-time employees, and sign a participation agreement, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That’ s common among members of the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, an association that serves over…

Betty, an 81- year-old widow, owns multiple properties worth $1 million, liquid assets, including stocks, bonds and cash worth $2 million, a a long-term care insurance policy for four years of care up to $126,000/ year. Betty could meet the income requirement even though her income is above the monthly allowable amount of $2.982 for a single person by establishment…

PacificSource Health Plans, one of Montana’ s three primary health insurance providers, will cease its Montana operations and exit the marketplace by the end of the year. The health insurance company has operated in Montana since 2012, providing individual, small and large group, ASO and Medicare Advantage health plans, and is contracted with more than 90% of…

PacificSource Health Plans, one of Montana's three primary health insurance providers, will cease its Montana operations and exit the marketplace by the end of the year. "This includes exiting the individual market, as well as the state of Montana." According to information provided to the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, PacificSource…

For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary contraceptive method– nearly identical to the pill. But the history of sterilization is also deeply entangled with coercion in the form of racial targeting, invalid consent and state…

The Texas House Committee on Human Services gaveled in on May 5, 2026 to discuss Medicaid in Texas. The first time the phrase, "long been vigilant in efforts to protect" was not in regards to protecting the highest number and rate of uninsured children in Texas, but instead, "efforts to protect taxpayer dollars." The committee hearing revealed something many who…

The Ways and Means Committee advanced bipartisan legislation to expand access to health care for seniors on Medicare, particularly those in rural and underserved communities, and to reauthorize Social Security's authority to test new approaches of connecting disability insurance beneficiaries to work. The Social Security Administration's authority…

Liana Woskie, Tufts University and Kimberly Turner, University of Pittsburgh. For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary contraceptive method– nearly identical to the pill. Our recent study found that a policy change in the 1990 s…

2026 MAY 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at South Korea Daily Report– Current study results on Surgery- Pulpotomy have been published. According to news reporting originating from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ Vital pulp therapy has gained increasing attention as a pulp-preserving treatment, particularly with…

2026 MAY 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– New research on Managed Care is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Reston, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,.” Imaging self-interpretation refers to interpretation of an imaging study by the study’ s ordering provider.”. Our news journalists…

2026 MAY 22– 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 out of Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx editors, research stated,“ The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025 will cut $1 trillion from federal health care…

2026 MAY 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. Funders for this research include National Institute of Aging, National Cancer Institute Grant, Commonwealth Fund, National Institute on Aging, National Institute for Health Care Management, Centers for Disease Control, Arnold…

2026 MAY 22– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– PROVIDENCE, R.I.- Among young adults with kidney failure, the expansion of Medicaid following the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 was associated with substantial declines in one-year death rates, researchers from Brown University found in a new study.

Public outrage over the forced sterilization of poor, Black women had less impact on female sterilization rates in the U.S. than a policy changing how post-birth care is delivered. For decades, female sterilization has been one of the most common forms of birth control in the U.S.: 11.5% of U.S. women, ages 15-49, use female sterilization as their primary…

Since Paul Lorenz "s arrival to Santa Clara County, things haven’ t been easy. Lorenz runs Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, a public system mandated to serve those on the margins– like those who lack insurance, are underinsured or are on Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income individuals. Currently, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare is the second…

The complaints allege that CVS Health orchestrated a secret and elaborate scheme to siphon from the hospitals approximately $250 million in savings generated under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.