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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio— The Counseling Center eliminated 45 positions this month, as the Portsmouth behavioral health provider faces financial pressure from declining client numbers and continuing challenges with insurance and Medicaid processes. Those challenges come amid significant changes to Ohio's Medicaid system. Ohio Medicaid's managed-care…

New research published by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that average health savings account balances reached a record $5,532 in 2024, even as 56% of account holders took distributions and only 18% invested HSA funds in assets other than cash.

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has made it a core part of her campaign, blaming Republicans for refusing to accept Medicaid expansion as a solution. Conducted in June for the Georgia Health Initiative, the survey found that more than 90% of Democrats and Republicans who responded had health insurance coverage. Yet concerns about rising costs crossed party…

Emily Isenhart is wrapping up a project focused on developing a novel treatment for Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that affects children and young adults. Isenhart and Goralski are two of about 80 Ph.D. students in the Roswell Park Graduate Division of the University at Buffalo. Those in the division are students at UB, but are paid an annual stipend of around…

Emily Isenhart is wrapping up a project focused on developing a novel treatment for Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that affects children and young adults. Stephen Goralski is researching how a person’ s age affects the ability of tumors to produce new blood vessels. Isenhart and Goralski are two of about 80 Ph.D. students in the Roswell Park Graduate Division of the…

Arkansas Secretary of Human Services Janet Mann said Monday that she expects the more than 215,000 people on the state's Medicaid expansion to retain some form of health coverage, despite the Trump administration's moves to end the hybrid program. Mann told lawmakers she's confident the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant the…

At 40%, Florida has the smallest proportion of its workforce receiving health insurance through their employer in the nation. In December 2025, Congress let ACA subsidy increases that were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic lapse. The decision not to extend these increased government subsidies of health insurance premiums came after heated partisan…

DES MOINES— Rob Sand would end the private management of Iowa's Medicaid program via executive order on his first day in office, the Democratic candidate for governor said Saturday. Sand, the state auditor who lives in Des Moines and is originally from Decorah, is running for governor against Republican Zach Lahn, a venture firm business owner from Belle Plaine.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn defended his Medicaid stance Saturday at the Hancock County Fair in Britt, expressing a need to continue Gov. Lahn said delivering healthcare through the private sector with government oversight is "bipartisan," saying 42 states including Iowa use managed care organizations, including many Democratic states.

Is your hospital under the same corporate roof as your health insurance company? Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Historically, hospitals have provided care for people, while separate insurers have paid for that care.

At 40%, Florida has the smallest proportion of its workforce receiving health insurance through their employer in the nation. In December 2025, Congress let ACA subsidy increases that were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic lapse. The decision not to extend these increased government subsidies of health insurance premiums came after heated partisan…

DES MOINES— Rob Sand would end the private management of Iowa's Medicaid program via executive order on his first day in office, the Democratic candidate for governor said Saturday. Sand, the state auditor who lives in Des Moines and is originally from Decorah, is running for governor against Republican Zach Lahn, a venture firm business owner from Belle Plaine.

Board of Education on Monday. Health insurance contributions for employees working less than 30 weekly hours will increase $30 per month; for employees working more than 30 hours a week, the increase clocks in at $40 a month. Superintendent Jeremy Olson thanked BESP for its time and energy throughout the arduous negotiations process, emphasizing the…

For more information contact MYRON STRUCK, editor, [email protected], Springfield, Virginia; 703/ 304-1897; https://targetednews.com. On behalf of Neighborhood Healthcare, I appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the CMS interim final rule with comment period regarding the Medicaid Program; Community Engagement Requirement for…

Tower MSA Partners, a technology-forward, industry-leading provider of Medicare Secondary Payer compliance services and Claimify, the leading national provider of tech-enabled solutions to the disability insurance industry, announce the appointment of Louis Porrazzo as Chief Legal Officer. He will work closely with the existing leadership team to…

Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. This time, Rangel was in the U.S. and lacked health insurance.

The U.S. and Mexico are the only countries out of 19 other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries where a substantial portion of the population lacks any form of health insurance. In the U.S., about 8 percent of the population, or 27 million people, are uninsured. And that is despite the U.S. has spent more on health care than any other nation.

These impacts already can be seen in dozens of state cuts to home- and community-based services for children with disabilities and a law in North Carolina that cut costs by eliminating coverage for 27,000 lawfully present children and pregnant women. The Congressional Budget Office now projects that 3 million children will lose coverage under Medicaid or…

Luigi Mangione's trial on New York state murder and weapons charges over the 2024 killing of a health insurance CEO was postponed on Monday, after the 28- year-old Ivy League graduate pleaded guilty last week to separate federal charges. Mangione's lawyers cited his guilty plea to the federal stalking charges he faced in urging New York state Justice Gregory…