By John Bowden -- The Hill Health insurer Aetna has filed rates for ObamaCare policies in Nevada next year after previously indicating it would be leaving the marketplace. Aetna has agreed to participate in the state's exchange in order to better the company's chances of winning a contract to offer Medicaid policies there, CNN Money reported [...]
By Rachana Pradhan | POLITCO The number of Americans insured under Obamacare fell by nearly 2 million people between Jan. 31 and mid-March, according to new CMS data that found about 10.3 million still were covered through health law exchanges. The decline reflects customers failing to pay premiums after they selected plans during the most [...]
Pushback on Medicaid, Medicare part of a trend. By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune Mayo Clinic’s chief executive made a startling announcement in a recent speech to employees: The Rochester-based health system will give preference to patients with private insurance over those with lower-paying Medicaid or Medicare coverage, if they seek care at the same time [...]
IRS won’t withhold tax refunds if Americans ignore ACA insurance requirement By Amy Goldstein February 15 - The Washington Post The Trump administration is taking its first steps to put its imprint on the Affordable Care Act, reversing plans to withhold tax refunds this year from Americans who flout an insurance requirement in the law [...]
Family Caregivers Considered Indispensable As America’s Elderly Population Increases. The Wall Street Journal (6/3, Levitz, Subscription Publication) reported that advocates and lawmakers are seeking more ways to help millions of unpaid family members who allow many elderly Americans to age in place and reduce the strain on programs such as Medicaid. Kathy Greenlee, assistant secretary [...]
The insurance giant is planning to compete in just Nevada, New York and Virginia in 2017. By Christopher Snowbeck Star Tribune The extent of UnitedHealthcare's exit from the nation's health insurance exchanges became clearer Wednesday as the company said it plans to compete in government-run marketplaces for just three states next year. Currently, United competes [...]
Insurance rates going up: New concerns for Obamacare By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh problems for "Obamacare": The largest health insurer in Texas wants to raise its rates on individual policies by an average of nearly 60 percent, a new sign that President Barack Obama's overhaul hasn't solved the problem of price [...]
Drugs with different chemical structures can provide new options, researchers say By Bradley J. Fikes | 8 a.m. May 9, 2016 Health insurers and patients could safely save many billions of dollars annually by swapping out a more expensive drug for a less expensive generic in the same class of drugs, according to a study published [...]
NBC Nightly News (5/9, story 7, 2:00, Holt) reported that “over a third of Americans say they’ve been hit with jaw-dropping medical bills they didn’t know were coming.” NBC’s Olivia Sterns highlighted the case of a woman who “got a bill for $100,000” because a surgeon “had stopped taking her insurance, and while the hospital [...]
Shkreli's Strategy to Jack Up Drug Prices May Be Curbed by FDA Featured in BloomberBusiness - by Anna Edney With a small regulatory change, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have just stopped the next Martin Shkreli. The agency said Friday that it will prioritize review of new applications for generic drugs that would [...]
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