While Connecticut has recovered all the positions that it lost at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, its employment levels have flatlined in recent months. Connecticut's estimated number of payroll jobs last month was only 0.6% higher than a year ago, compared with a nationwide increase of 1.4%, according to data from the state Department of Labor.
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While Connecticut has recovered all the positions that it lost at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, its employment levels have flatlined in recent months. Connecticut's estimated number of payroll jobs last month was only 0.6% higher than a year ago, compared with a nationwide increase of 1.4%, according to data from the state Department of Labor.
Unfortunately, in Colorado, there is an increasing need for youth mental health services and a rising percentage of young people are not receiving the help they need. A 2023 study by the Colorado Health Institute found that 22.3% of Coloradans aged 5 to 25 reported poor mental health and 18.6% of young people said they needed mental health care but didn't get it…
While Connecticut has recovered all the positions that it lost at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, its employment levels have flatlined in recent months. Connecticut's estimated number of payroll jobs last month was only 0.6% higher than a year ago, compared with a nationwide increase of 1.4%, according to data from the state Department of Labor.
I suppose it is some sort of indication, as far as the public's attitude towards health insurance companies goes, that when the CEO of United Healthcare was shot down on a sidewalk in Manhattan, the outpouring of sympathy for the victim might better be described as a dry wash. Mr. Gaetz resigned his seat in Congress after prematurely ordering boxes of stationery…
Critics of the U.S. healthcare system, attempting to capitalize on the fury Americans have expressed toward insurance companies since the targeted killing this month of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, have renewed calls to rethink how the United States pays for care. Some, for example, have returned to the idea of single-payer health care, which would…
A perk of being an independent news publisher is that instead of just grousing about this to my family and friends, I also had a legitimate pretext to ask Alaska's top insurance regulator: What's going on? I wrote a story headlined: "Monthly premiums for health insurance on the federal marketplace will rise 16% in Alaska next year." Alaska's health care costs…
Andrea Deutsch is the mayor of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the owner of a pet store in town, and she doesn't get health care coverage through either of her jobs. The 57- year-old, who is diabetic, pays $638.38 per month for health care coverage- about half of the $1,272.38 she would owe without the enhanced federal subsidies Congress and the Biden administration put…
2024 DEC 25– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Data detailed on Coronavirus- COVID-19 have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ We conducted a retrospective cohort study to evaluate changes in metabolic biomarkers among participants in…
2024 DEC 25– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– PROVIDENCE, R.I.- State employee health plans could have saved $7.1 billion nationwide by capping hospital payments at 200% of Medicare rates in 2022, a study led by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health found. Led by researchers from Brown’ s Center for…
The rates are assessed on the paychecks of the enrolled employees of Burlington County, the Burlington County Bridge Commission, Rowan College at Burlington County and the Burlington County Board of Social Services to cover their medical and prescription drugs benefits. "This is fantastic news for our employees and their families, as well as Burlington…
The Department of Community Health earlier this month granted new contracts to four insurers who spent more than a year jostling for the business, and shut out two others— Amerigroup and Peach State Health Plan— that had long managed Medicaid care in Georgia. Georgia law allows unsuccessful bidders to protest the decisions to state agency heads and then lodge…
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…
Virginia's Insurance Marketplace encourages Virginians needing health insurance coverage immediately in 2025 to apply before Dec. 31 of this year. Open enrollment does not end until Jan. 15, 2025; however, those who apply for benefits before Dec. 31 will begin receiving benefits on Jan. 1, 2025. Keven Patchett, director of Virginia's Insurance Marketplace,…
2024 DEC 24– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily– Current study results on Insurance have been published. Cross-sectional study of 424,115 hospitalized Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries 66 years and older who were discharged to the community in 2017 and attributed to 659 hospitals in the 2017-2018 National Survey of…
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…
The health care company formerly known as Bright Health, which benefited from Minnesota’ s largest-ever initial public offering of stock less than three years ago, is going private again as executives retool the business. NeueHealth, as the company is now known, is being taken private by a group of investors including venture fund New Enterprise Associates in a…
Question from Sarah: My premiums went up on my UPMC Pennie plan and so did my out-of-pocket costs for the emergency room, outpatient surgeries, and hospitalizations. I have a friend who has health insurance with a company I never heard of, and her premiums are much lower than mine. Pennie is the Pennsylvania Marketplace where people who don't get health insurance…
The assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on Dec. 4 has sparked political hysteria, most of all from Connecticut U.S. Sen. In a video he posted on social media two weeks later, citing the assassination, Murphy, a Democrat re-elected in November, turned vulgar, asserting that the medical insurance industry "mostly doesn't give a-" about…
Indiana Medicaid Director Cora Steinmetz will resign in early 2025 after navigating the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning through a forecast variance that resulted in cost containment strategies, new robust monthly financial reporting, and a more thorough policy review process. "Her leadership came at a pivotal moment, and Indiana was incredibly…
