Privately 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
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CMS: 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
Read MoreA Windfall in Health Insurance Rebates? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds
(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken tweeted recently that Americans will receive “$1.1 B
Read MoreHe Returned to the US for His Daughter’s Wedding. He Left With a $42,000 Hospital Bill
(By Sarah Jane Tribble for KFF Health News) Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home
Read MoreCommercial payers expect to pay $1.1B this year on member rebates
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Payers are expecting to issue a total of about $1.1 billion in medical
Read MoreStandardized Plans in the Health Care Marketplace: Changing Requirements
(By Karen Pollitz, Justin Lo, and Rayna Wallace for Kaiser Family Foundation Published: May 08, 2023) For the 2023 coverage
Read More‘Patients are not hot potatoes’: How the fight over dialysis coverage is putting kidney failure patients at risk
(By Carrie Arnold for STAT) As soon as she heard the Supreme Court decision, LaVarne Burton began to worry. As
Read MoreMedicare tests a solution to soaring hospice costs: Let private insurers run it
(By Leslie Walker and Dan Gorenstein for NPR) Hospice doctor Bethany Snider sees the writing on the wall: “The hospice
Read MoreNo-Cost Preventive Services Are Now in Jeopardy. Here’s What You Need to Know
(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) When a federal judge in Texas declared unconstitutional a popular part of the
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