California Teachers Fight Back Against Pressure To Reopen Schools

The standoff in the nation’s largest state underscores the difficult road ahead for governors and local leaders.

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Individual Market Insurers Remain Profitable In Q1, But Long-Term Outlook Murky

Insurers on the individual market remained profitable in the first three months of 2020 despite the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, thanks in part to the declines in routine care and elective procedures, a new analysis finds. The analysis, released Monday from the Kaiser Family Foundation, finds gross profit margins are up in the ...

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Health Insurers Call On Congress To Provide New Funding For Coverage Amid Pandemic

Health insurance companies are calling on Congress to provide more funding to help people keep coverage, citing the more than 44 million who have filed for unemployment since the coronavirus crisis started.

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Employers Balk At Frequent COVID-19 Tests For Workers. Here’s Why

From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of COVID-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard their businesses and their employees.

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Guidance For Group Health Plans Implementing COVID-19 FFCRA and CARES Coverage Requirements

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury jointly released additional frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) regarding implementation of the health coverage provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”);

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HHS To Send $3 Billion To Help More Safety-Net Hospitals

HHS on Friday announced plans to send an additional $3 billion in provider COVID-19 relief grants to safety-net hospitals that were left out of a prior funding tranche, and will give $1 billion to an assortment of rural and smaller hospitals.

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Insurers Need Flexibility In Benefit Design To Continue Telehealth Past The Public Health Emergency

CMS Administrator Seema Verma: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs help from Congress to make temporary flexibilities permanent.

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High Deductible Health Plans Aren’t To Blame For Rising Healthcare Costs

High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) are causing some individuals to avoid seeking medical treatment because they cannot afford the out-of-pocket expenses, some experts suggest. The implication of this position is employers should only offer higher premium, traditional PPO style plans.

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COVID Special Session: Nevada Facing Deep Cuts To Medicaid, Health Services Spending

Nevada lawmakers have started cleaning up a ten-figure budget mess caused by the coronavirus, opening a special legislative session on Wednesday that will see hundreds of millions of dollars slashed from the state’s $4.4 billion annual spending plan.

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Businesses Don’t Have To Inform All Staff Members Of Positive COVID-19 Cases, SNHD Says

With COVID-19 cases increasing across the Las Vegas Valley, many people wonder what the protocol is if a staff member at a business or office were to test positive for the virus.

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