The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance will continue to offer a three-month Open Enrollment Period for Get Covered New Jersey, the State's Official Health Insurance Marketplace, maintaining this long-standing accessibility for individuals and families who rely on the program for their health insurance coverage. A recent court decision…
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In a new letter to the editor in the N'West Iowa REVIEW, a health care provider put Zach Lahn on blast for pledging to continue Kim Reynolds' privatized Medicaid disaster, which has made health care more expensive, denied care to thousands of Iowans, and made it harder for rural families to get the care they need. I have recently spent months trying to negotiate a fair…
Question: What are the differences between Medicare Supplements and Advantage Plans? This is Part 2 of my "Medicare Reset Series" designed to prepare those on Medicare for the Annual Election Period that starts Oct. 15. With up to 600,000 people expected to have their current Advantage Plan discontinued, major benefit changes to many Advantage Plans and Part D…
But Santa Clara County expects only $20 to $30 million from this funding against a projected $1 billion dollar loss, while other counties continue to grapple with the fallout from the cuts. After the Trump Administration’ s landmark 2025 spending bill made $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years to Medicaid— the public program that provides health insurance to…
WASHINGTON– Louisiana hospitals are reporting a surge of uninsured patients seeking treatment, many of whom dropped their policies when Congress last year didn’ t extend the subsidies that helped lower-income workers buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Louisiana was among the states that saw the biggest proportion of ACA…
Louisiana hospitals see sharp uptick in uninsured patients after Obamacare subsidies expired
WASHINGTON– Louisiana hospitals are reporting a surge of uninsured patients seeking treatment, many of whom dropped their policies when Congress last year didn't extend the subsidies that helped lower-income workers buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Louisiana was among the states that saw the biggest proportion of ACA…
Within the next decade, older adults are expected to outnumber children in the United States for the first time in history. “Most long-term care insurance products are designed to help people prepare for a future care event,” said Samir Shah, CEO of CareScout.“ What makes this offering different is that policyholders can begin accessing care planning, navigation…
For Medicaid, the State of Ohio has awarded contracts for Next Generation MyCare to four Managed Care Plans including: Anthem, Buckeye, CareSource, and Molina. Since Medicaid is issued at the State level, Ohio used its data to assign individuals to a Medicaid plan based on which one had the most contracts with medical providers that the individual currently uses.
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Kansas Citians who buy health insurance through healthcare.gov can expect to pay much more for monthly premiums next year. According to preliminary rate filings submitted to state insurance regulators in Missouri and Kansas, every insurance company selling individual plans in the region through the Affordable Care Act marketplace wants to raise prices…
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.– In what was a historic year for education funding in Oklahoma, lawmakers didn't seem to prepare for a major insurance cost increase set to hit next year. "It's crazy to think that in Oklahoma, we can't give our teachers enough insurance coverage that if their kid gets cancer, it should cover everything," said Kaleb Swboni, Principal at Tannehill…
Ashley Hinson is rolling out new health care legislation aimed at increasing transparency in the health insurance industry while facing sustained criticism over her record on health care affordability and access. The proposal comes as health care has emerged as a central issue in Iowa's open 2026 U.S. Senate race, with Democratic groups and Hinson's…
Governor Maura Healey has announced that the Division of Insurance has negotiated down proposed rate increases from seven health insurers, saving Massachusetts residents and businesses a projected $72 million in health care premiums for 2027.. The Division of Insurance re-negotiated lower rates with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts HMO Blue, INC.,…
The race is in Iowa, whose Medicaid program has been plagued with controversy since 2016, when the state hired national insurance companies to manage billions of dollars' worth of benefits. With his executive order, Iowa joined most other states in privatizing the management of Medicaid, which covers healthcare for more than 67 million Americans with low…
Ashley Hinson is rolling out new healthcare legislation aimed at increasing transparency in the health insurance industry while facing sustained criticism over her record on healthcare affordability and access. The proposal comes as healthcare has emerged as a central issue in Iowa's open 2026 U.S. Senate race, with Democratic groups and Hinson's…
This was written by staff at the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters. It was republished by The Mendocino Voice in partnership with CalMatters to bring relevant nonpartisan news to Mendocino County readers. Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration…
The Oregon Division of Financial Regulation announced July 30 that it had reviewed recent rate hike proposals from major health insurance companies and decided on an average 16% increase in costs to individual consumers on the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace. But Oregon regulators framed the lower rates as a win that would save consumers…
Arkansas officials asked the federal government Wednesday to allow the state's hybrid Medicaid expansion to continue through the end of 2028 after the Trump administration denied its request to renew the program providing health coverage to more than 200,000 people. Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services verbally rejected…
Elderplan/ Homefirst, the nonprofit senior healthcare management organization, opened its first-ever Brooklyn office with a celebratory ribbon-cutting on Aug. 5. Its new community office, located at 6405 Seventh Ave. in Sunset Park, will be a resource for Elderplan members seeking support and information about their health plan coverage and how to access…
Vanessa Barahona received a call this past spring from Angelica at Kern Family Health Care in Bakersfield, California, telling her it was time to renew her coverage under Medi-Cal, the state’ s version of Medicaid. “Angelica” is the name assigned to an AI program deployed last year by Kern Family Health Care, the largest provider of Medi-Cal services in Kern County.
