The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s Farm Bureau Health Plan was designed to help unsubsidized Iowans afford a health plan and represents the controversy surrounding association health...
Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) seeks to address uninsurance in the US by developing an education and patient navigation campaign, known as Be Covered, to inform the uninsured of their health...
When the House Committee on Energy and Commerce brought in CMS Administrator Seema Verma to testify regarding the White House’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the hearing covered...
In 2020, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment process will feature quality star ratings, Enhanced Direct Enrollment (EDE), health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) resources, and a more...
Introducing a public option could encourage commercial payers to lower their premiums, a trend reflected in increased competition from Medicaid managed care organizations, researchers from the Urban...
The average premium on Healthcare.gov dropped for a second consecutive year, down by four percent, CMS announced.
Delaware saw the highest Healthcare.gov premium decline, where the premium for a...
Oscar Insurance Company of Florida (Oscar) has appealed the federal court’s dismissal of the company’s anti-trust lawsuit against Florida Blue, the company announced in an emailed...
The fear of having no healthcare coverage drives Americans’ decisions regarding employment, according to a recent study by the TransAmerica Center for Health Studies.
The study surveyed 3,760...
In a letter released on September 11, CMS informed UnitedHealthcare that its Medicare contract H5322 through Care Improvement Plus failed to meet its medical loss ratio requirement for the third year...
The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance announced that it will offer $2 million for health navigators to help enrollees and re-enrollees with the transition from a federal-facilitated...
If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was not in effect in 2018, 45 percent of families would have one non-elderly adult with a pre-existing condition for which they might be declined from healthcare...
After seven years of instability and decreasing involvement from payers, the Affordable Care Act exchanges, or the federal health insurance marketplace, will expand in 2020, the Robert Wood Johnson...
The health insurance tax, mandated in the Affordable Care Act, will be back in effect in 2020 and is set to generate $15.5 billion in taxes due to CMS’s new 2020 payment rule.
“This new...
In 2018, 8.5 percent of the nation did not have health insurance coverage at any point during the year, the Census Bureau’s report revealed, arguably the first rise in the uninsurance rate since...
Healthcare payers will be paying back $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers, and the individual health insurance market played a significant role, a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)...
Anthem is preparing its members in the event that its contract with Northeast Georgia Health Systems (NGHS) ends this month, while it faces potential challenges over its new partnership with the...
Contrary to the negative predictions, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries’ access to care and health plan affordability did not change between 2009 to 2017, according to a recent study published in...
Only half of individual health insurance market members pay their premium bill on time, potentially pointing health plans toward digital payment tools for premium collections, finds a recent Aite Group...
Between 2016 to 2017, 700,000 more individuals became uninsured, a recent study by the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation found. This rise in uninsurance comes at a time when the economy is thriving,...
The individual health insurance market decreased another five percent in the beginning of 2019 following the individual mandate repeal, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reported.
After the enactment...
