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Affordable Care Act (ACA)Dental/Oral Health Employer Healthcare Health Care Finance Health Insurance Medicaid Medicare Advantage

Eileen Cook August 26, 2024August 26, 2024 ACA, Barriers to healthcare, Dental, Employer Health Insurance, Health care costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare Finance, In-Network Health Coverage, Long Appointment Wait Times, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage

Beyond cost, what barriers to health care do consumers face?

(By Imani Telesford, Aubrey Winger, and Matthew Rae for The Kaiser Family Foundation published August 22, 2024) Most adults (91%)

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Employer Healthcare Health Insurance

Eileen Cook August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 ACA, congress, Employer insurance, Health Insurance

How Congress gets their health insurance

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Members of Congress are tasked with making decisions about the future of the

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Health Care Redesign Health Insurance Medicaid Medicare - General

Eileen Cook August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 ACA, CMS, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Reform, Medicaid, medicare

Biden Administration Blocks Two Private Sector Enrollment Sites From ACA Marketplace

(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) Federal regulators have blocked two private sector enrollment websites from accessing consumer information

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Health Care Finance Health Insurance

Eileen Cook August 7, 2024August 7, 2024 ACA, GLP-1 drugs, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Hospital Prices

Marketplace Insurers are Proposing a 7% Average Premium Hike for 2025 and Pointing to Rising Hospital Prices and GLP-1 Drugs as Key Drivers of Costs

(By Tammie Smith for The Kaiser Family Foundation published August 5, 2024) ACA Marketplace insurers are proposing a median premium

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Health Care Finance Health Insurance Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 ACA, Drugs for Weight Loss, GLP-1 drugs, Health Insurance companies, Healthcare Costs, Ozempic, Wegovy

Weight loss drugs 1 factor behind ACA premium increases: 3 things to know

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Premiums for plans on the ACA marketplace will rise 7% on average in

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Health Insurance Illegal Activities

Eileen Cook July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 ACA, CMS, Insurance Broker, Unauthorized

CMS cracks down on ‘unauthorized’ ACA broker activity

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS has issued new policies aimed at blocking “unauthorized changes” from brokers when

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Health Insurance Legal Actions/Court Decisions

Eileen Cook July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 ACA, CMS, Lawsuit, Misleading Ads

Misleading Ads Play Key Role in Schemes to Gin Up Unauthorized ACA Sign-Ups, Lawsuit Alleges

(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) The government is giving away money! So say ads on a variety of

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Health Care Redesign Health Insurance Medicaid

Eileen Cook July 2, 2024July 2, 2024 Federal Poverty Level, Healthcare redesign, Medicaid, Medicaid Waiver, Oregon

Oregon expects to insure 100,000 under new program

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Oregon has launched a program to provide Medicaid benefits to individuals earning up

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Legal Actions/Court Decisions Preventive Care

Eileen Cook June 25, 2024June 25, 2024 ACA, ACA Preventive care, Legal Decisions

Court keeps ACA preventive care mandate in place

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A federal court kept the ACA preventive care mandate in place for now

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Employer Healthcare Health Insurance Medicaid Uninsured/Underinsured

Eileen Cook June 19, 2024 Health Insurance, Medicaid, National Center for Health Statistics, Uninsured

US uninsured population drops to 25 million

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) In 2023, 25 million people in the U.S. had no health insurance, according