Month: February 2023
California’s state of emergency declaration, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ends on February 28. The federal state of emergency also ends this spring, on May 11.
Despite rising costs, employers will continue to offer healthcare coverage to their workers, and they don’t see that ending anytime soon, if ever, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
As pandemic-era policies come to an end, tens of thousands of Southern Californians are expected to lose out on Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, come April. Experts estimate about 330,000 people in Los Angeles County and approximately 160,000 in Orange County will be ineligible for Medi-Cal in April when states resume the redetermination process. The number of ...
As reported by Reuters, an analysis by the health care research firm 3 Axis Advisors found a roster of drugmakers raised prices in the U.S. last month on more than 350 drugs. The manufacturers include major industry players like AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Pfizer, and Sanofi.
Despite federal regulations on price transparency, many people still have a hard time comparing costs between hospitals. According to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which uses data assembled by health care software company Turquoise Health, there are limited mandated standards for how hospitals should classify and share prices, and a lack of regulation which ...
National Labor Relations Board this week put employers on notice that they can no longer silence laid-off employees in two very specific ways that the board says violates employees’ rights under sections 7 and 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act.
A doctor found cysts in Lilia Becerril’s right breast five years ago, but the 51-year-old lacks health insurance. She said she can’t afford the imaging to find out if they’re cancerous. Becerril earns about $52,000 a year at a nonprofit in California’s Central Valley, putting her and her husband, Armando, at more than double the ...
Humana is exiting the employer group commercial market after a strategic review of its business lines, the insurer announced Thursday.
Despite increased health care spending in 2021, Health Savings Account (HSA) enrollees ended the year with higher balances in their accounts, according to a new study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). The analysis outlines some interesting findings about HSA accounts in the year after the worst of the COVID pandemic. For the report, researchers looked ...
The state Supreme Court rejected a challenge Wednesday to a ruling that said school districts in California cannot require their students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 because only the state government can issue such a mandate. While public health agencies have recommended the vaccinations for children as young as 6 months old, legislation calling for ...