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.
California’s leading gubernatorial candidates agree that health care should work better for Golden State residents: Insurance should be more affordable, costs are unreasonably high, and robust competition among hospitals, doctors and other providers could help lower prices, they told California Healthline.
California health regulators have allowed poor care to proliferate at nursing homes around the state, and the number of incidents that could cause serious injury or death has increased significantly in recent years, according to a stinging state audit released this week.
Last week, a bill that would dismantle California’s health care delivery system as we know it was introduced in the Legislature. Assembly Bill 3087 would penalize millions of patients through massive cuts in services and result in as many as 175,000 hospital workers losing their jobs.
If you were one of the few people who stuffed or was trying to stuff your 2018 health savings account to the max before the tax overhaul ratcheted back the contribution limit, you can breathe easy. The Internal Revenue Service announced today in a revenue ruling that it will let taxpayers stick with the original $6,900 contribution limit for family coverage and not face excess contribution penalties.
In today’s economy, operating a small business on a day-to-day basis — even without having to sift through the vast number of health care options for your employees — is more than just a full-time job. Common misconceptions and a lack of understanding about specific aspects of health care benefits can cause headaches for even the savviest business owner. The good news is that resources, such as brokers and employee benefits advisers, can help chart a clear path through the health care insurance marketplace.
The head of Nevada’s health insurance exchange is “deeply concerned” about a proposed federal rule change that would extend the length of short-term health plans, saying in a Friday letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the policy will likely result in higher premiums for people who purchase insurance on the exchange.
As the state contemplates major changes as to how health care will be financed and delivered, California gubernatorial candidates have outlined their positions.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of short-term, limited duration health plans for sale through two major national online brokers finds big gaps in the benefits they offer.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has ordered three California hospitals to pay out millions of dollars to local nonprofits, declining their requests to be freedfrom charity obligations required under state law.
These days, when the federal government turns in one direction, California veers in the other — and in the case of health care, it’s a sharp swerve.