Author: Scott Welch
The COVID-19 public health emergency is expected to end early in 2023, which means that next year will be marked by millions of Americans having to be determined eligible to continue to receive Medicaid benefits. According to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an estimated 5.3 million to 14.2 million Americans could lose their Medicaid coverage ...
Numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Clark County and across Nevada plateaued in the past week, after increasing the prior week for the first time in three months, according to new state data. Confirmed and suspected COVID-19 hospitalizations declined by one to 111 in the county, according to data from the Nevada Department of ...
Legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last week requires employers to make pay scales available to job applicants and employees and expands California’s pay data reporting requirements.
After a precipitous drop over the past two months, California’s COVID-19 trends have hit a plateau. The state reported an average of 3,336 cases a day as of Thursday, only a 5% decrease from the previous week’s numbers, according to health department data.
California doctors will soon be subject to disciplinary action if they give their patients information about COVID-19 that they know to be false or misleading.
Administrative spending makes up 15% to 30% of all U.S. medical spending—multiple times as much as other comparable countries—and “at least half” of that spending “does not contribute to health outcomes in any discernable way,” according to estimates cited in a new Health Affairs research brief. So-called wasteful administrative spending is estimated to comprise 7.5% to ...
Don’t be surprised if you spend more time this year picking health-care benefits during open enrollment season. Between rising inflation, policy-specific changes and employees wanting more health-care services, many people won’t be clicking the exact same boxes as last year. Last year during open enrollment — generally in the October and November timeframe — people ...
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company nabbed its first health plan partner, Capital Blue Cross. Beginning this month, the Pennsylvania-based plan and Mark Cuban’s drug company (MCCPDC) will begin to let members and community organizations know about their collaboration and how they can access low-cost drugs, according to a press release. In 2023, Capital Blue Cross members ...
The COVID-19 pandemic combined with the Affordable Care Act resulted in a historic high percentage of Americans having health coverage. What’s behind this historic high? Two experts from Manatt Health looked at trends in access to care through Medicare, Medicaid and the commercial health insurance market at a webinar on Thursday. Between 2011 and 2021, ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop reporting daily COVID-19 cases later this month and switch to weekly reports after more than two years of near constant daily updates. In an update regarding its coronavirus data and surveillance, the CDC said it was transitioning from daily to weekly reports to allow for more ...