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Elections - Healthcare issues Health Care Finance Health Insurance Medical Debt

Eileen Cook October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 Charity Care, Debt Collectors, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medical debt

Even Political Rivals Agree That Medical Debt Is an Urgent Issue

(By Noam N. Levey for KFF Health News) While hot-button health care issues such as abortion and the Affordable Care

CMS Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults, Premium Stablization Demonstration

Medicare Part D Premiums Are Increasing for Many But Not All Stand-Alone Plans in 2025, Reflecting Effects of New Premium Stabilization Demonstration

(By Juliette Cubanski for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Oct 03, 2024) CMS has just released information about Medicare Part

CMS Health Care Finance Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Part D

Keeping Part D premiums stable will cost $5B: 8 things to know

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) The federal government will spend $5 billion to keep Medicare Part D premiums

Employer Healthcare Health Care Finance Health Care Redesign Health Insurance

Eileen Cook October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 Health Insurance Premiums, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, High Deductible, individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement

Benefit Trend: Employers Opt To Give Workers an Allowance for Coverage

(By Michelle Andrews for KFF Health News) Dave Lantz is no stranger to emergency department or doctor bills. With three

CMS Health Care Finance Medicare Advantage

Eileen Cook October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

States with highest, lowest Medicare Advantage premiums | 2025

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Average Medicare Advantage premiums in 2025 range from $2.44 in Nevada to $62.25

CMS Health Care Finance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare Advantage premiums, benefits stable for ’25, CMS says: 10 notes

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Average Medicare Advantage premiums and Medicare Part D premiums will decrease in 2024,

Health Care Finance Health Insurance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 Cigna, HCSC, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D

HCSC approved to purchase Cigna’s Medicare business in Florida

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Florida’s insurance commissioner has given the green light for Health Care Service Corp.

FDA Health Care Finance Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Biosimilars drugs, FDA, Healthcare Finance, Humira, Medicare Part D

Optum joins CVS, Cigna in dropping Humira

(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Optum Rx will join the other major pharmacy benefit managers and exclude Humira

Affordable Care Act (ACA)CMS Health Care Finance Medicare - General Medicare Advantage Part D/Prescription Drugs

Eileen Cook September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 CMS, Healthcare Finance, medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus payments, Medicare Part D, Older Adults

Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payments Will Total at Least $11.8 Billion in 2024

(By Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Meredith Freed, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Sep 11, 2024)

Affordable Care Act (ACA)Health Care - General Health Insurance Medicaid Uninsured/Underinsured

Eileen Cook September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 ACA, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Finance, Medicaid, Uninsured

US Uninsured Rate Was Stable in 2023, Even as States’ Medicaid Purge Began

(By Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News) The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census