Booming Economy Helps Flatten Medicaid Enrollment And Limit Costs, States Report

Medicaid enrollment fell by 0.6 percent in 2018 — its first drop since 2007 — due to the strong economy and increased efforts in some states to verify eligibility, a new report finds.

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Gavin Newsom Is Bullish On Single-Payer – Except When He’s Not

Twenty minutes before the only scheduled 2018 California’s gubernatorial debate, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled into the San Francisco parking garage in a black SUV. Through the tinted windows, a soft overhead light slightly illuminated the front-runner’s chiseled features and slicked-back hair.

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Trump Administration Takes Another Step to Allow Health Plans That Don’t Cover Preexisting Conditions

The Trump administration Monday took new steps to broaden the availability of health plans that don’t have to cover patients’ preexisting medical conditions, signaling that the federal government would support state proposals to promote more sales of these skimpier plans.

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Marketplace Subsidies May Be Option In 2020 For Plans That Skirt Obamacare

States would be able to use federal funding to provide subsidies to people buying short-term health insurance policies, which typically don’t provide comprehensive coverage, under guidance released Monday by the Trump administration.

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Trump Administration Loosens Restrictions on Health Reimbursement Arrangements

The Trump administration is proposing to allow U.S. workers to use tax-free health reimbursement arrangements to shop for coverage in the individual market. It's another move aimed at expanding consumer choices and lowering costs for small businesses.

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2.7 Million Californians Don’t Have Health Insurance. Can that Number Go Lower?

After a streak of steady declines, California’s uninsured rate bottomed out last year with some 2.7 million people still without health coverage.

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Medicare For All? CMS Chief Warns Program Has Enough Problems Already

The Trump administration’s top Medicare official Tuesday slammed the federal health program as riddled with problems that hinder care to beneficiaries, increase costs for taxpayers and escalate fraud and abuse.

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CMS Hands States More Power for Waiver Process

The CMS on Monday handed state governors significant power to overhaul their insurance exchanges and changed the way it will evaluate so-called innovation waivers. 

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As Amazon Turns Its Gaze to Healthcare, the Industry May Be in for a Wild Ride

Amazon has been in the headlines disrupting markets for years, but over the past few months, we have seen more and more news about the company’s ambitions in healthcare. From the alliance with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway that Dr. Atul Gawande has been appointed to lead to the purchase of PillPack, Amazon is clearly serious about healthcare. The question now is how far will Amazon, the master disrupter, take this?

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Trump Wants Drug Commercials to Include Prices. These Five Companies Have the Most at Stake

President Trump wants to force drug companies to disclose their prices in TV ads — and that’s going to hit five companies much harder than any others: Pfizer, AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Amgen, and Allergan.

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