Month: March 2025
Nearly 800,000 Nevadans are covered by Medicaid, a federal health insurance program used by one in five Americans who would otherwise struggle to afford medical care.
The Silver State plans to award managed care contracts to incumbents UnitedHealth, Elevance, Centene and Molina — along with CareSource, a newcomer to the state.
NO Nevada Medicaid does not cover undocumented immigrants, or people who are living in the U.S. without legal immigration status. According to KFF, a nonpartisan, nonprofit health policy organization, undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federally funded health coverage, including Medicaid. People must provide proof of citizenship or legal immigration status when they ...
Spring has sprung, and round two of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA's) negotiation period has begun. Each of the drugmakers that make the fifteen medicines selected for 2027 price cuts have officially signed on to the process, giving the go-ahead for the price talks to begin.
Cigna has officially sealed the deal on the $3.3 billion sale of its Medicare business to Health Care Service Corporation. HCSC acquired Cigna’s Medicare Advantage, Part D, supplemental benefits and CareAllies units as part of the deal. While it will no longer operate the Medicare unit directly, Cigna said it will continue to provide pharmacy ...
Telehealth groups celebrated the extension, but added that the short-term reprieve means continued uncertainty for providers.
The request comes on top of a $3.44 billion loan proposed last week, with costs for undocumented residents running higher than expected.
The $3.44 billion loan, first floated to lawmakers Wednesday, will cover obligations for Medi-Cal, through March, but it’s raising questions about a bigger budget hole that may need to be filled later on. Lawmakers said they were caught off guard by the news and still don’t understand the extent of the shortfall.
Small-group health insurance premiums are still going up at about the same rate as before, and the enrollee count continues to fall. The average monthly premium increased 6.1% in 2024, to $659. The rate of increase was down, slightly, from 6.2% in 2023.
The new-generation weight-loss drugs work very well at preventing obesity, diabetes and death, but they are still much too expensive to be a good financial value for employer plans or other payers, researchers report in a new paper published by JAMA Health Forum. Semaglutide, the GLP-1 agonist drug that powers Wegovy, could cost less than $100,000 per ...