Insurance coverage mandates for a certain type of breast cancer screening may drive up utilization and lower costs, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Digital breast tomosynthesis...
CMS has released its projections for national healthcare spending from 2021 to 2030, noting that healthcare as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) will remain comparable to the share in...
Catheter users who received health insurance coverage from private health plans incurred higher annual out-of-pocket costs compared to catheter users on a government or public health plan, according to...
Pregnant people were more likely to experience high out-of-pocket healthcare spending, but Medicaid and public health insurance coverage helped minimize costs compared to private insurance, a study...
Most Americans reported that health insurers are not successfully deflecting high healthcare spending and many survey respondents sought more transparency and out-of-pocket healthcare spending support...
While the nation’s overall healthcare spending trend has been gradually increasing starting in 1970, the US experienced a particularly steep healthcare spending incline in 2020 of nearly 10...
Although acupuncture utilization has grown in recent years, only half of acupuncture visits had any form of coverage in 2019, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
The...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has updated the preventive healthcare guidelines under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to expand low-cost coverage of preventive care services for...
Patients with new cancer diagnoses who were enrolled in a high deductible health plan experienced significantly higher out-of-pocket healthcare costs compared to patients with traditional insurance, a...
Households that had a COVID-19 diagnosis and those with children had higher rates of household healthcare spending and medical bill concerns, according to the...
Costs for employer-sponsored health plans increased 6.3 percent in 2021, surpassing every annual increase since 2010, a Mercer survey discovered.
“Employers seem optimistic that this...
Nearly nine out of every ten American seniors had not changed Medicare plans with less than a month left in the 2022 open enrollment season, according to a MedicareGuide.com survey.
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Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace premiums for 2022 depend largely on where individuals live, what their income is, and which plan they select, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) issue...
The Biden administration has issued an interim final rule that requires group and individual health insurance market plans to send data related to prescription drug spending of both patients and their...
Trustmark Health Benefits (Trustmark), the employer-sponsored health benefits arm of Trustmark Mutual Holding Company, has announced that it will partner with Teladoc to form a virtual-first health...
Many consumers are considering changing their healthcare plan during open enrollment 2022, a movement largely motivated by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a ValuePenguin study.
The...
An increasing share of middle class families faced barriers related to care costs on the Affordable Care Act marketplace from 2015 to 2019, a Health Affairs study found.
The researchers used American...
With the Affordable Care Act marketplace open enrollment season around the corner, CMS has announced changes to its outreach and enrollment processes in a marketplace 2022 open enrollment fact...
Updated 11/1/2021: This article has been updated to refer to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) as a singular center. A previous version referred to...
Medicare Advantage plans offer members additional benefits and require less spending from the federal government compared to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, according to a report commissioned by Better...
