New analysis paints a bleak picture for millions of workers covered by employer-sponsor health plans due to coronavirus-related layoffs.
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As the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, uninsurance rates will increase rapidly and place unprecedented strain on Medicaid programs and the ability of uninsured...
A new report warns of rising premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for beneficiaries resulting from healthcare spending to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covered California, the state’s health...
Cigna and Humana have announced they are waiving all cost-sharing for coronavirus-related treatment to reduce or entirely eliminate out-of-pocket costs.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, healthcare stakeholders have guessed that overall and out-of-pocket healthcare spending for coronavirus treatment will be high. But now researchers from the...
Cigna and Houston Methodist announced a long-term agreement to cover patients and employees at the hospital.
“This new agreement is great news for all of the people we serve – the Houston...
The Best’s Market Segment Report, a global insurance credit rating agency, publisher, and data analytics provider, has projected tighter margins but an overall stable outlook for 2020 for most...
Employer-sponsored health plans spent $5,892 per plan member in 2018, most of which went towards emergency department visits and other outpatient services, according to a report produced by the Health...
Handling Medicaid beneficiary communication can be a complex undertaking, more challenging than what payers face with most employer sponsored health plan members. But new insight from Adaptation...
Cigna and Oscar Health will be partnering to provide a health plan designed for small businesses that struggle to afford healthcare coverage for their employees, the companies announced.
"Small...
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC’s) Well-Being Learning Project highlights how employee health is the result of a symbiotic relationship between employees and their company in which...
Born under the pressure of skyrocketing healthcare spending, employer activism enables employers to take control of their companies’ healthcare spending, in a way that could both strengthen and...
Even the promise of employer-sponsored insurance could not increase healthcare coverage for individuals facing increasingly high premiums, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study.
The...
As more employers seek to offer the best healthcare benefits to their employees, they are focusing on quality and a diverse set of plans, which tends to lead them toward HMOs and PPOs according to a...
The average annual growth in premium and deductible costs for workers outpaced their median income growth from 2008 to 2018, a Commonwealth Fund study discovered.
“Over the last decade, employer...
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...
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...
When it comes to lowering skyrocketing drug prices, employers are making their voices heard on drug price transparency, drug price increase caps, and other price reducing strategies through the...
Twice as many employers are offering workplace financial wellness programs in 2019 than in 2018, yet financial and health literacy still leave something to be desired, revealed a Bank of America...
Employers are looking for broader provider networks, but healthcare payers who want to decrease the high cost-sharing must look for less expensive and fewer providers, a recent study by Kaiser Family...
