The low- and middle-income communities’ shifts in uninsurance rates differed largely based on the state’s Medicaid expansion status, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute...
Hospital admission rates and 2021 healthcare spending overall were below expected levels through early April 2021 and researchers projected that these trends could continue through June 2021, according...
CMS has announced that immunocompromised individuals will receive the coronavirus booster shot without cost-sharing.
On August 12, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a booster...
States have an opportunity to use the increased federal matching for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) to accelerate coronavirus vaccination uptake, a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)...
In light of the Delta variant of COVID-19, Centene Corporation has taken steps to increase Centene employee coronavirus vaccination, boost education, and prepare for an increase in coronavirus...
SCAN Health Plan has announced a significant decrease in coronavirus vaccine disparities.
“SCAN is committed to eliminating the troubling disparities in the health care system that...
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) supported New Yorkers who lost their employer-sponsored health plan coverage during the pandemic in three ways, according to a United Hospital Fund (UHF) issue...
Small business health insurance gravitated toward level-funding and self-funding and did not shift toward significantly toward the individual health insurance marketplace during the coronavirus...
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, payers have focused on improving and implementing mental and behavioral healthcare programs.
From January to June 2019, 11 percent of US adults reported...
Based on 75 individual marketplace rate filings, the coronavirus pandemic is not expected to meaningfully affect healthcare spending in 2022, a Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health System...
CMS has released preliminary data on Medicare beneficiary experiences during the coronavirus pandemic including coronavirus vaccine uptake.
The agency conducted the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey...
The uninsurance rate may be declining and the American Rescue Plan Act’s changes may be partially responsible for this shift, according to a Commonwealth Fund report.
The report pulls its data...
Price gouging of coronavirus tests continues to drive healthcare spending higher as out-of-network providers charge up to three times the actual cost of the test, according to recent data from...
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) and Kroger Health have announced that they will be partnering to offer a Medicare Advantage plan in 2022, an Anthem spokesperson told HealthPayerIntelligence...
AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) have helped over two million seniors receive the COVID-19 vaccine through their vaccine outreach program.
The Vaccine Community Connectors (VCC)...
Employers play a key role in increasing coronavirus vaccine uptake, but not necessarily by requiring workers to receive the vaccine, a recent Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) report...
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) saw a boost in enrollment during the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number of insured individuals to over 80 million, HHS...
Centene Corporation has launched a new initiative to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among health plan members as well as all Americans.
One half of the initiative will include a call campaign to...
The medical cost trend for 2022 may not be as high as expected, but it is still higher than the trend from the past few years with the exception of 2021, the PwC Health Research Institute found in...
After a year of accelerating home healthcare services, payers can build on their coronavirus home healthcare strategies to bolster their home healthcare programs more permanently.
Hospital...
