Insurer premium rebates could total $2.7B this year
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Insurers offering commercial health plans to employers and individuals could issue roughly $2.7 billion
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Health Care Finance
In Fine Print, HHS Appears To Ban All Surprise Billing During The Pandemic
(By Emmarie Huetteman for Kaiser Health News) Federal officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ practices have included
Read MoreHow Much More Than Medicare Do Private Insurers Pay? A Review of the Literature
(By Eric Lopez, Tricia Neuman, Gretchen Jacobson, and Larry Levitt for Kaiser Family Foundation) With millions expected to be hospitalized during the
Read MoreProviders likely to leave MSSP because of COVID-19, survey finds
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Fifty-six percent of healthcare organizations that take on financial risk in Medicare Shared
Read MoreFuror Erupts: Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19
(By Jay Hancock and Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News) Probably few hospital systems need the emergency
Read MoreUnitedHealth will help HHS distribute $30B in hospital aid
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) HHS tapped UnitedHealth Group to quickly disperse an initial $30 billion in emergency federal
Read MoreTo ‘Keep The Lights On,’ Doctors And Hospitals Ask For Advance Medicare Payments
(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) Darrin Menard, a family physician in Lafayette, Louisiana, has spent the past month
Read MoreHospital costs to treat uninsured COVID-19 patients could exceed $41B, study finds
(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) More than 40 percent of the $100 billion earmarked for hospitals from the $2.2
Read MoreUnitedHealth Group announces $2 billion in accelerated claim payments to providers
UnitedHealth Group announced it is taking steps immediately to accelerate payments and other financial support to health care providers in
Read MoreCMS will speed $34B in payments to hospitals
( By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS has approved nearly $34 billion in payments to hospitals and other
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