Industry Updates
This broad category includes articles concerning health insurance costs, carrier and health plan news, changing benefits technology, and surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation and others on employee benefits.
Members of the Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to approve two House bills that could make Affordable Care Act health coverage reporting requirements a little easier for employers to meet.
Luigi Mangione was indicted on charges that include first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The indictment on murder in the first-degree in furtherance of terrorism elevates the case against Mangione, 26, in Thompson’s killing outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4. The ...
Earlier versions of the bill included provisions that would have limited an employer to including only $10,200 in spending on employee-only coverage and $27,500 in spending for family coverage coverage from taxable income.
Lawmakers reached a deal Saturday evening to extend expiring healthcare programs, lobbyists close to the issue said. The package, floated Friday, is more robust than lobbyists expected. The extensions in the package won’t be final until the House and Senate vote on the package this week. The healthcare package includes a 2.5% payment boost for ...
President Biden is making a final push to build on the Affordable Care Act, extending the enrollment period for marketplace coverage that kicks in Jan. 1 as sign-ups lag. Why it matters: ACA enrollment has hit new record highs each year of the Biden administration. But those gains are on shaky ground as the Trump administration prepares to ...
The PBM Act would make CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth — and any other companies that own health insurers or PBMs — sell pharmacy assets.
Enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans are currently set to expire after 2025, and a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that their expiry could drive up premiums across the individual market.
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies make no secret of their disdain toward federal agencies and their desire to fundamentally disrupt the regulatory state. The new administration plans to rely on unorthodox health official picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz to shape, and remake, healthcare in Trump’s second term, but administrative law ...
Republicans on Capitol Hill have sent a preliminary offer to Democrats for numerous health care policies to be tacked onto the continuing resolution that lawmakers are moving to complete before the Dec. 20 deadline to avert a government shutdown.
The manhunt for the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ended with the arrest of Luigi Mangione on Monday, Dec. 9. Despite the cold-blooded crime he's accused of committing, Mangione is being treated as a folk hero by some who are disillusioned with the American healthcare system.