Virginia’s state budget bottleneck is casting a shadow on a new state program that this year resulted in a 19.5 percent reduction in the cost people pay for health insurance. As a result, that could mean a steep increase in premium rates if the House of Delegates and state Senate can’t figure out how to […]
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This article was produced for ProPublicas Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises, along with Capitol News Illinois. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they’re posted. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a bill on Friday that strengthens the range of penalties a state watchdog can
By Kelsey Waddill June 13, 2023 – According to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, policies around the coronavirus pandemic may have helped curb unmet care, inaccessibility of care and some care inequalities, but these trends may also reflect lower overall use of care a due to healthcare disruptions during the pandemic. The
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Posted by Steve Alder on June 13, 2023 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company, Point32Health, are facing several class-action lawsuits after hackers gained access to the protected health information (PHI) of more than 2.5 million people in an April 2023 ransomware attack . Point32Health is the second largest insurer in Massachusetts serving more
By Kelsey Waddill June 12, 2023 – AHIP offered four recommendations to the Senate Finance Committee on Consolidation and Competition (the committee) to support healthy competition and reduce health care spending in the health care sector. “We support the Committee’s bipartisan momentum toward greater affordability and access through stiff competition that is essential to providing
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Photo: Jessica Brandi Lifland When properly supported and designed, high-quality primary care is a common good that provides better population health and more equitable outcomes, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). But primary care in the United States has been under-resourced for decades, especially in Black, Indigenous and other historically
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Americans will receive $1.1 billion in rebates from health insurance companies this year thanks to a provision I wrote into the ACA. Former Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.), in a tweet on May 17, 2023 Former Democratic Senator Al Franken tweeted recently that Americans will receive $1.1 billion in rebates from health insurance companies this year
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At the end of June, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) will vote on amendments to the European Commission’s draft proposal for a regulation on quality and safety standards for substances of human origin intended for human application (SoHO Regulations). This includes plasma. It is essential that the
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From Rachan PradhanaANDAnna Werner, CBS NewsANDLeigh Ann Winick, CBS News The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons and members of Congress have protested would limit women’s options for reconstructive surgery. The procedure offers potential advantages over implants and operations that take muscle from the abdomen. But it’s also more
1. Home Richard Newstead | Moment | Getty Images Housing is perhaps the most important category in the consumer price index, a key barometer of inflation. Housing is the largest expense for the average American family. The “shelter” category that measures costs for renters and homeowners thus accounts for more than a third of the
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Millions of Americans in recent years have stumbled upon this experience: filing a claim for health insurance that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If insurers’ experience and explanation often seems arbitrary and absurd, this could be because companies seem increasingly willing to employ computer algorithms or people
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Most of the changes coming when Wellstar takes over operations at AU Health will be on the back end, but once the deal is finalized, the clock will start with a policy change that could impact several patients. For the first year, the new Wellstar MCG Health will continue AU Health’s existing charity and charitable
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Two Tennessee women are suing the state over its health insurance plans for public employees after learning their health policies specifically exclude coverage for gender-affirming care. Gerda Zinner and Story VanNess, the plaintiffs in the case, became aware of the coverage gap after they scheduled surgeries to address their gender dysphoria and were denied insurance
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