Compliance
This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.
If there is one consistent component of digital marketing — it is the fact that nothing stays the same. Tactics are in a constant state of change. The most effective strategy or campaign of March could be obsolete and ineffective by June.
Dive Brief: * Heightened expenses, ongoing staffing shortages and fewer patient discharges have hospitals facing negative margins near the end of the year, according to Kaufman Hall’s monthly national flash report out Wednesday. * Median operating margins have been in the red for 10 consecutive months and were down 2% in October from September. Median operating margins ...
Amazon Launching ‘Amazon Clinic,’ A Virtual Health Service Intended To Treat A Variety Of Conditions
Amazon is trying its hand at another healthcare service. The Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday that it’s launching “Amazon Clinic,” a new virtual care platform that uses message-based interaction to connect customers with third-party telehealth providers. The goal is to offer a convenient way to seek treatment for more than 20 common health conditions, including seasonal allergies, ...
With the 2023 Marketplace Open Enrollment now underway in all states, many are focused on the roll out of the so-called “family glitch” fix as one of the new changes to watch in this tenth Marketplace Open Enrollment.
According to a recent survey conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of AHIP’s Coverage@Work campaign, voters who receive health coverage through their jobs value telehealth and want the federal government to extend the telehealth flexibilities.
Some 70% of people want to age at home, yet only 10% have long-term care insurance, a recent HCG Secure/Arctos Foundation study found. Furthermore, about half of respondents had no idea how much in-home care would cost.
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average. Summaries of the 90 audits, which examined billings from 2011 through 2013 and are the most recent reviews completed, were obtained ...
For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine. Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. It’s a continuation of a troubling ...
Starting next year the highest-grossing drug of all time, AbbVie ABBV -0.56%decrease; red down pointing triangle‘s Humira, will finally face competition from copycat biologics in the U.S. Yet the makers of the complex generics known as biosimilars won’t necessarily be the biggest winners. The top beneficiaries could instead be the middlemen such as Cigna CI 0.29%increase; green up pointing triangle and CVS Health CVS 0.16%increase; ...
For more than 2 decades, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has produced an invaluable annual survey of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). This year’s report, which the authors summarized in a companion article published in Health Affairs, provides insights into key characteristics of the insurance model that most working-age Americans and their families rely on to access medical services.