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Medicare beneficiaries need to save even more for health expenses
Medicare beneficiaries need to save even more for their health expenses as a new research report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that the amount of money Medicare beneficiaries could need for health expenses increased again in 2023.
Governor Reeves reminded Mississippians his position has not changed. In a post on X, Reeves noted that Democrats, and some Republicans, "want Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion." Most– but not all– are Democrats.
Regulators debate who would pay and how much in LTC rate review plan
One of the biggest hurdles to setting long-term care rate review policy is how to fairly assess the increases, regulators say.
The changes would raise the income eligibility limit for the state's Children's Health Insurance Program– also called KidsCare– from the current 200% of the federal poverty level to 225%. That means a family of four earning up to $70,200 would be eligible to enroll their children, expanding eligibility to an additional 10,000 children in Arizona.
LINCOLN— A Nebraska lawmaker looks to expand Medicaid coverage to include obesity, an effort he described Thursday as seeking to tackle the "root cause" of other ailments. Merv Riepe of Ralston, through Legislative Bill 907, seeks to expand coverage for intensive behavioral therapy and anti-obesity medications. Brianna Johnson-Rabbett, board certified in…
Study looks at financial challenges faced by Hispanic workers
While many American workers report increased burnout and financial challenges, Hispanics face these issues at a higher rate.
Prior authorization rules don’t apply to employer-based health insurance
Prior authorization rules will not affect the largest number of Americans who have health insurance – the 158 million who receive insurance from their employer.
Nearly 1,000 residents a day are signing up for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina according to North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley. While the expansion had been agreed upon months earlier, delays in the General Assembly passing the current state budget meant that expansion did not begin until Dec. 1.
The two Planned Parenthood affiliates operating in the state– Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri– no longer provide abortions in Missouri, though their counterparts in Kansas and Illinois do. In a decision Wednesday, the Missouri Supreme Court once again ruled the legislature's attempt to…
Harnessing AI to combat fraud, waste and abuse
Health care fraud, waste and abuse – also known as FWA – has reached epic proportions.
J&J drug pricing lawsuit seeks class action status
Lawsuit accuses drug giant Johnson & Johnson of mismanaging its employee benefits program and overcharging for drugs.
PORTLAND- Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic levels. Medicaid, which covers low-income and disabled people, and the related Children's Health Insurance Program grew to a record 94 million…
Medicare beneficiaries who are having trouble paying their out-of-pocket prescription drug costs would have the option of spreading those costs throughout the year instead of paying all at once, according to guidance issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
SPRINGFIELD– Baystate Health is selling Health New England, its not-for-profit health insurance subsidiary, to an Eastern Massachusetts company. Health New England has about 400 employees. Health New England, based in Springfield, offers a range of plans in the commercial, Medicaid and Medicare markets and has approximately 180,000 members concentrated in…
More than 16 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent months, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. As a result, Medicaid enrollment increased by more than 23 million people between February 2020 and April 2023. Total enrollment was nearly 95 million at its peak. Even in Texas, which did not expand Medicaid under the terms of the…
1 in 6 workers dislike job, but stay for health insurance, study finds
One in six workers dislike their jobs but are staying on because of their health insurance.
Alexandra Lincango used to stay home from work to take care of her son Darek Clavijo when he would have asthma attacks. They got some good news though last year, when Connecticut extended healthcare coverage to children 12 and under regardless of immigration status who qualify based on income, as part of the state's Medicaid coverage. Clavijo, who lives in…
Feb. 12— MORGANTOWN— Senate and House committees took up and approved bills on Monday creating the Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act. The Senate's version is SB 375, handled by Banking and Insurance. A Health Care Sharing Ministry is not health insurance and the bills exempt them from the state's insurance laws.
The ruling comes just five days after a South Florida federal judge, in a separate civil trial, issued a $195 million judgment against the company, Simple Health Plans LLC, and its CEO Steven J. Dorfman. A jury in the Southern District of Illinois found Dorfman and the company "s executive vice president, John A. Sand, guilty on 13 counts each of various charges of…