Health-related income risk remains largely outside the financial planning conversation.
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Caregiving is reshaping the workplace, employee benefits and long-term financial security.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services does not plan to eliminate Medicare brokers or limit their ability to assist people in obtaining coverage.
Turning 26 forces many young adults into one of the first major financial decisions they’ve ever had to make entirely on their own.
The complaints allege that CVS Health orchestrated a secret and elaborate scheme to siphon from the hospitals approximately $250 million in savings generated under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.
Employer expectations around voluntary benefits are changing.
The model provides states with a framework to offer a nonrefundable tax credit to small businesses that are not required to provide health insurance but choose to offer an ICHRA.
Health Agents for America, along with members of the independent health insurance agent community, is taking legal action against New York state following the decision to eliminate commissions for agents assisting consumers with enrollments on that state’s Affordable Care Act exchange.
Medicare’s regulatory framework was built for a version of retirement that no longer exists.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a sweeping rule to strengthen oversight of the Affordable Care Act exchanges for plan year 2027 by lowering user fees, tightening eligibility verification and giving states greater authority over plan oversight.
The Alliance for Medicare announced its official launch and introduced its flagship initiative, the Coalition to Improve Medicare Advantage.
The moratorium will not impact current enrollments, and existing providers can continue to deliver services to Medicare beneficiaries.
Employers who are waiting for benefits costs to stabilize may be misunderstanding what is happening in the market.
GLP-1s are forcing the conversations about pharmacy benefits and stop-loss strategy.
America’s health care affordability crisis is driven by unchecked health care consolidation, particularly among hospitals, according to a report released by Families USA.
Two shifts in care are bringing more people to hospital outpatient departments, and these hospital departments are more expensive than independent physician offices for the same service.
Nearly eight in 10 employers report that GLP-1s are driving an increase in their company’s health care costs, leaving many to consider some difficult choices in balancing costs and care.
The economics are straightforward, and they’re ugly.
Although no rule has been issued on the use of AI in Medicare enrollment, associations representing health agents are paying close attention to the possibility.
Health-related risks are among the most underplanned and financially disruptive factors in retirement — often outweighing market volatility, inflation or recessions.
