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.
The Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded a policy from 1998 that gave undocumented immigrants access to certain federal health benefits, such as Head Start and mental health programs. Issued by President Bill Clinton, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was passed into law and deemed a major welfare ...
Members of the House have brought back efforts to pass the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act bill. The bill would have a direct effect only on Medicare Part D prescription drug plans: It would let the plans cover weight-loss drugs for obese people and for overweight people with weight-related health problems. The drug coverage provision does ...
Many of those states fear that the additional red tape — especially requirements that would end automatic reenrollment — would have an outsize impact on their policyholders.
President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 his sweeping tax and spending package after the House secured the bill’s passage one day before in a 218-214 vote. The House vote ensured the healthcare industry-opposed package would be signed into law in line with the self-imposed July 4 deadline. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick, ...
A legal analyst says conservative House Republicans may now press for health provisions left out of the final version of OBBBA.
Centene pulled back its guidance for the year after receiving an actuarial report suggesting its growth in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces will be lower than expected. The insurer said an analysis from Wakely predicted that market growth in 22 of its states will fall short of expectations, and “aggregate market mobility” in those regions ...
A new report from federal actuaries estimates national health spending will increase by 7.1% in 2025, with spending growth set to outpace growth in the U.S. gross domestic product. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary released its annual look at spending projections last week, and it estimates that from 2026 ...
Doctors for America, the Main Street Alliance and three cities have sued the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) over a recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) final rule the agency said will help counter improper enrollments. The plaintiff cities named in the lawsuit are Baltimore, Chicago and Columbus. The groups and cities say the ...
House fiscal hawks are looking at the math underlying Senate Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy legislation, and they don’t like what they see.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities, including a landmark health care expansion for low-income adult immigrants without legal status, to close a $12 billion deficit. It’s the third year in a row the nation’s most populous state has been forced to slash funding or stop some ...