Commercial 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
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Standardized 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 ST A T) As soon as she heard the Supreme Court decision, LaVarne Burton began to
Read MoreKey senators make a big pivot on bipartisan insulin cost proposal
(By Rachel Cohrs for ST A T) WASHINGTON — Amid a scramble to assemble a health care policy package in
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
Read MoreAHA: High deductible, short-term plans are driving medical debt
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Inadequate insurance coverage is one of the main causes of medical debt,
Read MoreWhy Medicare is suddenly under debate again
By Micel Martin, Tinbete Ermyas, Gurjit Kaur for npr on March 14, 2023 The White House released President Biden’s $6.8
Read MoreFeds Move to Rein In Prior Authorization, a System That Harms and Frustrates Patients
By Lauren Sausser for Kaiser Health News on March 13, 2023 When Paula Chestnut needed hip replacement surgery last year,
Read MoreInsurers urge CMS to reverse course on ‘flawed’ MA risk adjustment changes
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Insurers are urging CMS not to implement proposed risk adjustment changes in
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