Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril
(By Noam N. Levey for KFF Health News) For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple
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Payer price transparency data has been available for a year. Is it lowering costs?
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Price transparency data is available, but several changes are needed to actually bring
Read MoreWait, What’s a PBM?
(By Dan Weissmann for KFF Health News) You might wonder, wait, what’s a PBM exactly? And also, why am I
Read MoreMore than 80% of physicians, nurses say payers are negatively affecting ability to practice: AHA survey
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A majority of physicians and nurses say administrative policies from commercial payers are negatively
Read MoreACA risk adjustment payments are on the rise: CMS
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Total risk adjustment payments in individual and small group insurance plans increased in
Read MoreHHS Announces Actions to Protect Consumers and Lower Health Care Costs
(Source – www.cms.gov/newsroom) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced actions to protect consumers from junk health
Read MorePrivately Insured People with Depression and Anxiety Face High Out-of-Pocket Costs
(By Hope Schwartz, Nirmita Panchal, Gary Claxton, and Cynthia Cox for The Kaiser Family Foundation published: Jun 23, 2023) Millions
Read MoreStates ranked by healthcare affordability
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Texas is the worst state for healthcare access and affordability, according to a
Read MoreCMS: Private insurance spending to increase in 2023, 2024; slow in 2025 onward
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS is projecting a 7.7 percent increase in private health insurance spending in
Read MoreKFF Survey Shows Complexity, Red Tape, Denials, Confusion Rivals Affordability as a Problem for Insured Consumers, With Some Saying It Caused Them to Go Without or Delay Care
(Contact Craig Palosky for the Kaiser Family Foundation published June 15, 2023) Most (58%) people with health insurance say they
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