Senate committee plans Nov. 8 vote on wide-ranging health care package
By John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs for STAT) WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee plans to vote Nov. 8 on
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Health Care Finance
Smaller Employers Weigh a Big-Company Fix for Scarce Primary Care: Their Own Clinics
(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News) With his company’s health costs soaring and his workers struggling with high blood
Read MoreHigh-deductible health plan growth stalls
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) The proportion of people with employer-sponsored insurance enrolled in high-deductible health plans is
Read MoreIn Response to Home-Care Workforce Shortages, Most States Report Increasing Medicaid’s Payment Rates and Expanding Worker Opportunities
(By Alice Burns, Maiss Mohamed, and Molly O’Malley Watts for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Oct 24, 2023) Long-standing workforce
Read More4 recent Medicare Advantage overpayment cases
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Cigna Group will pay over $170 million to settle allegations of Medicare
Read MoreFixing America’s health insurance woes is ‘actually very simple,’ says leading economist
(By Annalisa Merelli for STAT) Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task. But the solution
Read MoreBenchmark Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023; Workers Contribute $6,575 on Average Now, But Potentially More Soon
(By Craig Palosky, KFF for Kaiser Family Foundation published October 18, 2023) Amid rising inflation, annual family premiums for employer-sponsored
Read MoreAn Overview of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit
(Source – Kaiser Family Foundation published October 17, 2023) Medicare Part D is a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit for
Read More2024 Medicare Parts A & B Premiums and Deductibles
(Source – cms.gov) On October 12, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2024 premiums, deductibles,
Read MoreFeds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment Stats
(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after
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