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.
Voters across the country are furious over the high cost of health care, with resentment rippling across workers who get health coverage through their jobs. Polls from KFF, Pew Research Center, and CNN show Americans are fixated on health care costs even as prices for gas, groceries, and other necessities soar. That is leading to ...
The biggest U.S. hospital company wants to take a tougher approach to collecting bills. Executives at the company, HCA Healthcare, hope improving collections will help HCA compensate for enrollment cuts at Affordable Care Act public exchange plans. Mike Marks, the chief financial officer at HCA, talked about the impact of the ACA exchange plan enrollment ...
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by ...
The policy entitles employers with at least 100 workers to details about drugmaker rebates and other information. PBMs face penalties for incomplete disclosure.
Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California. Depending on the hospital, pediatric units — which are separate ...
An attacker used a “phishing” strategy to get unauthorized access to Covered California agent information spreadsheets May 13, according to a sample breach notice letter posted on the California attorney general’s website Oct. 16. “As a result of this incident, your information, along with information relating to other agents, was disclosed,” Covered California officials warn ...
A federal judge decided Wednesday to put off making a decision about whether to require HealthCare.gov managers to resume registering new agents and brokers for the open enrollment period for 2027 coverage. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher issued an order giving U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, ...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged 15 individuals, including six medical professionals, tied to healthcare fraud schemes that allegedly generated roughly $2 billion in fraudulent claims to government and private insurers. Prosecutors allege four defendants operated a $1.6 billion abuse treatment scheme in California, which the DOJ calls the largest sober-home/substance abuse treatment fraud ...
Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage reached $28,303 in 2026, up 5% from last year, according to KFF’s 2026 Employer Health Benefits Survey, released Oct. 22. Workers contributed an average of $7,471 toward family premiums, up 9% ($621) from 2025. Total family premiums, including employers’ contributions, increased by $1,310. The premium increase outpaced wage growth ...
Days before it was to go into effect, the Trump administration pushed back a U.S. customs rule threatening the supply of vital prescription drugs imported by millions of Americans. Under the rule, Customs and Border Protection and the FDA will require coding on packages that makes it easier to know what’s in them. It is ...