Month: June 2024
One of the many ways that the 2020 pandemic ushered in change in our lives was by increasing the prevalence of remote and virtual client and work interactions. No longer do meetings and presentations need to be in person. The pervasiveness of virtual business meetings and our sometimes lack of physical interaction has coined a ...
America’s Health Insurance Plans is meeting in Las Vegas this week, and everything has changed. A year ago, the health insurers that belong to AHIP were focusing on efforts to expand and improve Medicare plan operations. UnitedHealth was excited about its newly acquired Change Healthcare health data services unit. This year, the Centers for Medicare ...
Nevada’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is embracing technology — from mobile apps to data visualization dashboards — to better serve the state's residents online.
Since employees generally go along with most retirement plan provisions, adding plan design features, such as auto-enrollment and auto-increase, are some of the fastest ways to help boost participation rates, says a new survey.
Legislators from both sides of the aisle appear to agree that the controversial 340B drug discount program needs refinement rather than upheaval and broadly welcomed suggestions for greater transparency and preserved access to care during a Tuesday oversight hearing.
California’s Office of Health Care Affordability faces a herculean task in its plan to slow runaway health care spending. California is the ninth state to set annual health spending targets.
Every tax season hundreds of thousands of Californians are hit with an unexpected bill: They owe hundreds of dollars or more to the IRS because they accepted more money in subsidies for health insurance than they were allowed.
The nearly 180 million Americans with private health insurance coverage have experienced increased premiums and decreased benefits. However, little is known about how changes in privately insured families’ contributions to insurance premiums and out-of-pocket spending have affected the financial burden.
Five of the suits were filed by Esperion Therapeutics, which seeks to stop competitors from selling generic versions of the company's cholesterol drug Nexletol.
After three years, only a third of 2,000 U.S. hospitals reviewed were in compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule of 2021, says a new PRA report, which puts some of the blame on feds for not enforcing the rule.