Health/Employee Benefits News

WASHINGTON- Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO- although not as much as the person who pulled the trigger, according to a new poll. In the survey from NORC at the University of Chicago, about 8 in 10 U.S. adults said the person who committed the killing has "a great…

Due to months of unsuccessful contract negotiations, Point32Health is scheduled to end in-network coverage for 17,000 members at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Natick as of Jan. 1. If an agreement isn’ t reached in the final hours of the year, the hospitals, owned by for-profit Tenet Healthcare Corp., will join…

2024 DEC 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Research findings on Managed Care are discussed in a new report. Financial support for this research came from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Northwestern University,“ This inherent segregation perpetuates a system of…

Due to months of unsuccessful contract negotiations, Point32Health is scheduled to end in-network coverage for 17,000 members at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Natick as of Jan. 1. If an agreement isn’ t reached in the final hours of the year, the hospitals, owned by for-profit Tenet Healthcare Corp., will join…

2024 DEC 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily– Researchers detail new data in COVID-19. According to news reporting from University Park, Illinois, by NewsRx journalists, research stated,“ The outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei province of the People’ s Republic of China, has spread to…

As the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period has wrapped up and we move into 2025, I want to go over some items and areas of concern for me. This came to my attention as WVU Uniontown Hospital announced they had come to an impasse on a new contract for reimbursement with one of the largest providers of HMOs and PPOs in Western PA. I was surprised at how many people we met in…

Mike Plante struggled with his weight for years, but within six months of starting with the injection drug semaglutide, a medication for diabetes that's also being used for weight-loss, he's down 65 pounds. "I still have an appetite; I just get full quicker," Plante, of South Charleston, said. Instead, he pays nearly $500 a month for the drug through Reflex MD, a company…

The U.S. is the importer. U.S. companies will not pay the tariff tax, American consumers will pay. This is not to mention Social Security and Medicare which are at risk with decreases in revenue.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Erin Booth’ s five-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. She and her husband qualified for Medicaid under a program enacted during the health crisis and that federal insurance provided Landon all the medical treatment and therapy he needed. But after President Joe Biden declared an end to the public health emergency, the…

Kentucky's largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment is continuing to cut staff and expenses, citing "significant reimbursement cuts" by some private insurance companies that manage state Medicaid payments. Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, recently reduced its workforce by 105 employees, Matt Brown, ARC chief administration officer said in an email Nov….

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…

Mike Plante struggled with his weight for years, but within six months of starting with the injection drug semaglutide, a medication for diabetes that's also being used for weight-loss, he's down 65 pounds. "I still have an appetite; I just get full quicker," Plante, of South Charleston, said. Instead, he pays nearly $500 a month for the drug through Reflex MD, a company…

I was checking out at the supermarket the other day, and as usual, fell into conversation with the checkout person, an elderly woman. She was sharing a bagger with the next lane over. When the bagger— another elderly lady— joined us, I noticed a pretty heavy limp.

Consider this: Health insurance is a product so terrible that few Americans voluntarily buy it without receiving a sizable subsidy. "No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did, " UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty wrote this month.

The cost of epinephrine auto-injector devices, commonly known as "EpiPen" devices, is slated to become a little more affordable for families due to legislation recently signed into law in New York. Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation to cut the out-of-pocket contribution required for the devices, with the new law requiring health insurers to cover…

Trinity Health of New England was still at odds in contract negotiations with health insurer Aetna just four days before the current agreement is set to expire, raising the worrisome possibility that many patients insured by Aetna will lose their "in-network" status with the health system's hospitals and doctors. The negotiations between Trinity Health– the…

The Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, which the Legislature moved from UMMC to the State Department of Health last year, will oversee the programs. The office was created by the Legislature in 2012 and has assisted with the creation or supported 19 accredited graduate medical education programs in Mississippi, said health department spokesperson…

With ideas floating around in Washington to cut back on health care coverage, Illinois should do what it can to protect its residents.In July, Gov. Without the enhanced subsidies, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, ACA enrollment will drop from 22.8 million in 2025 to 15.4 million in 2030. That's a lot of people who will lose their health insurance.And…

2024 DEC 27– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Data detailed on opioids have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine by NewsRx correspondents, research stated,“ The Medicaid program is the largest payer of opioid use disorder treatment, including medications for OUD.”.