Author: Scott Welch
Employee health care costs are increasingly eating up larger shares of payroll costs for America’s smallest businesses, according to a new analysis from the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Why it matters: The pain of health care costs is nothing new. But this analysis, based on de-identified data from Chase business banking accounts, offers a more granular look at the disproportionate burden ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed California’s budget to close an estimated $46.8 billion deficit through $16 billion in spending cuts and temporarily raising taxes on some businesses. Lawmakers passed the budget Wednesday following an agreement between Newsom and legislative leaders in which both sides made concessions and also had wins as they were forced, for the ...
Authorities are warning of extreme health and wildfire risks across California this week, as the longest heat wave of the year is set to kick off Tuesday, bringing triple-digit temperatures, with little overnight cooling, to the vast majority of the state. “This is really just a long-duration heat event that will provide little to no ...
If you’re taking a multivitamin to help you live longer, a new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute may prompt you to reconsider. After analyzing health and nutrition data from nearly 400,000 Americans, the researchers found that people who took multivitamins had a small but significantly greater risk of premature death than people ...
An appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling that HHS could not force Braidwood and other firms who challenged the ACA mandate to cover PrEP drugs for HIV, however, the nationwide ACA coverage mandate is still in effect.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, state lawmakers, and health industry leaders have a small window to reach an agreement on billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal before it’s put to voters in November.
Employer-sponsored health plans and other private plans seem to be covering more Americans, but people with income over 400% of the federal poverty level are less likely to have any coverage.
Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the state’s budget. The agreement is part of a larger plan to close an estimated $46.8 billion shortfall.
A federal appeals court in California has shielded a health insurer against a state-law breach-of-contract claims and other state-law claims. A three judge panel at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently found that the state-law claims had a “connection with” a benefit plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Congress passed ERISA in ...
Risant Health, the nonprofit entity created by Kaiser Permanente, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire North Carolina’s Cone Health, the nonprofit systems said Friday. Cone would be the second system to join Risant, subject to regulatory approval, following Geisinger Health earlier this year. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. It is expected to close in ...